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I'm afraid you are rather missing the point! If two golfers are tied after 18 holes and are also tied on the back 9, they will also necessarily be tied on the front nine!

Indeed, chrise@614. You said, 'Think about it' and I didn't!

euphemism time!
The Starship test flight is now over, after experiencing what engineers have called a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" during ascent.

Shock horror! Two mistakes in one part of a question on Round Britain Quiz today.
Explain why these pairings might lead to a good contest: a Midlands town and a pheasant, an orthodontic device and the sap of an oriental tree, and an insect and a source of light and heat?
The second part is supposed to give BRIDGE and RUBBER, but a bridge isn't an orthodontic device, and rubber trees (although stolen and planted in the Orient) are native to Brazil.

A football journalist this morning likened the relegation battle in the Premiership to 'survival of the fittest'
By 'fittest' Darwin meant 'most apt'
not the strongest - a common mistake!

Paul

Yes it was nice to see Tal in the TImes today -first clue I solved

Chrise and Tyke

Congrats on your time travels!

...sorry, I didnt notice the date!

Back again after a lengthy absence during which I stopped doing crosswords (I have read a lot of library books instead). I do not have time to read through all the pages I have missed so I may be repeating something that has been mentioned before. Anyway, I have been discovering some strange verb constructions recently (in The Times). The first was a transitive verb being used intransitively as in "The rocket will launch on Thursday". The second was more recent as in "The economy has managed so far to swerve an official recession". What is wrong with avoid or miss? Am I being hyper-sensitive?
I think I will have to concede defeat on the use of "trove" as a noun but what is a trove? This seems to be more common in the Guardian.

Can I add my tuppence worth to the question of resolving golfing ties? The intention of using the back nine, I assume, is to sort out which player is better able to stand up to the pressure of holding a lead over his opponent. Player A could be 3 strokes ahead after 15 holes but finish 6 4 5 to Player B's 5 3 4.