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Steve, thanks, I see the save option now with Azed which I haven’t submitted.
With Everyman, which I have submitted , the save option has gone and I can no longer edit the grid.

Worth the effort of finding it. Thanks to you. I wouldn’t have found it without this forum. I wonder how many didn’t. I wouldn’t have got 16d without the hints here either but now I can get on with my day!

With 16d, I can parse last week’s answer and most, but not all, of this week’s (assuming it’s definition and wordplay)…

I see that the Observer site has improved. How can you launch and then sort out the website later?

There’s now a link to the puzzles section on the main Observer landing page.

Jono, I believe 16d parses 1,1,2 inside 4

Thanks, Geting, I agree, it’s “backing over” I had a problem with.

I take that to mean 'here's a backup way of arriving at the answer

Thanks for the copy of the puzzle.

Geting and Jono Re 16d, can you give any more hints for parsing without totally giving the game away (although the answer has been mentioned so often in this forum already, maybe it doesn't matter)? I've been looking at the bloody thing for an hour now and can't see how it can possibly work, aside from as an Aesop-inspired &lit. (In contrast to last week's solution, which was extremely convoluted but did parse.)