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Grunger

Thanks - very pleased to hang on for the win - I watched it live on FA Player, which is new to me but free! Hope we get an easy draw next ... Everton or Man Utd will do!

Morning.

A clue from yesterday's Times puzzle triggered off some grumping and grouching from me....

Free novel initially enjoyed by fashionable young man (8)

Not too tricky, but put out of your mind any novels written in the last 133 years.

In the current Listener 38a is triggering me. Once the misprint is fixed, the definition and the entry have the same root word.

Mathprofrockstar, I too found that odd ... and not great!

Malone

Sorry - cant solve your clue. Give up

Hi jigjag
It was BUCKSHEE - BUCK SHE (the novel in question) E

Thanks, ChrisE.

Jigjag, the 'novel = She' is as bad as 'actor/old actor = Tree' in my eyes! I certainly don't want puzzles filled with teenspeak and Love Island references, but the examples cited smack slightly of laziness, I feel.

Malone ChrisE

Thanks, I didnt think of Buck and She, I only think of Emma when it looks like a novel.

malone

Another unknown authoress in Times today, but glad there was a pork pie

Grunger.

'Unknown'? That's dumbfounded me, sorry!
Yes, it was good to see the pork pie...