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Took me a while to get 7d, but now I have it I can appreciate Fitzover's amusing post . It was my penultimate, with 6a loi shortly after

14d is my cod

Don't like19a, even after saying the answer aloud several times , but overall I enjoyed it today

I took the last letter in 9a to be the abbreviation of the former German currency. While 6a is given as a single word in Chambers the definition doesn’t quite work for me. In 28d “fusty” is just old fashioned, but I agree with Chris there are some superfluous words here and there :-)

35 mins today, still thought it was harder than usual for an Everyman.

I can't parse 12D.

I usually say 6A as a 4 rather than the acronym :p

Just looking in


Chris. I took the first two oletters in 21d as a brief way of saying " I appreciate"

PS, you need to read 12d from the bottom up…

Yeah worked it out in the end, the famous Jacobi (with apostrophe S as well) ;)

Cheers.

21d first two letters are “I appreciate that”. Confusing because if you apply the ‘odd selection‘ to “that Lucy” rather than just “Lucy” you get the same result!

I just did the oddly thing, as you said works both ways.

Yes, I just used "that Lucy". The compiler probably hadn't seen that.

I was also confused by the inclusion of 'I appreciate' in 21d until I came on here. As Chrise said, it was unnecessary.

Anyway, I did enjoy today's - thought there were lots of excellent clues, including the aforementioned 14, plus 16, 24, and 7d (didn't initially 'get' that one!) Clever misdirection in 3d - took a while to realise it was an anagram.

Don't think anyone else has mentioned the rhyming pair of 12 and 20 across? I also noticed an unusual number of plurals - I counted eight.