Completed (at great pains), but can't parse all of 3A; I get "The northern Nespaper" (1,3); and "stand-up" (5); but can't account for the one letter in the middle with "twice", (or "twice backing"?) Can anyone enlighten me? Thank you!
I found this much trickier than previous weeks, but having been driven to cheat on 6 and 16, I realised that both were clever and fair clues and that I should have tried harder. Good fun, thank you!
It was like that for me with 5d. It still sort of is... what happened to the rest of the slate, OR what's a gamp? Anyway finished it but 2 hours including tea breaks. I loved 6d too. Love a chance to use my Latin. As usual, with 7d l was confused as to which spelling would be the answer- had to wait for 10a. Duh!
One of my sisters and her partner along with my nephews and their girlfiends took me to the Prospect of Whitby which is just a 5 minute walk from flat.