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The instructions say that the six unclued across lights provide the firat four and last four of a sequence connected with 15 down. The unclued down lights should then be filled in a perfectly consistent manner.

So I have:

15 down = -HOR (so THOR perhaps)

The unclued across lights are:
- - LT-R
-O-E
H-L--
E--NS
FINEY
REES-OGG

The unclued downs:
--CUR--E
-RE-CENT
-CON--
--LCI-E
BACC-

Hi buzzb, I haven't done or seen this puzzle but The Times was known as The Thunderer (Thor ?) and I can see some previous editors' surnames among the across unclueds but don't recognise Filey (though that might just be me). Being an older puzzle might the publication date be relevant ?
I could well be way off beam but as nobody else has pitched in ...

You are correct!

http://listenercrossword.com/Years/Puzzles/L2/L27/L2777.html

Getting the down lights now would seem to be next to impossible, since the idea is to give words with 2 C's in order to celebrate the fact that this puzzle occurred on the 200th anniversary of the Times.