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@Darla, marry me (I’m fed up being told how many I insulted last night - they’ve forgotten and so have I, but a TT remembers everything)

No problem Malone.
I live in Montreal so EDT zone.
At 0:00 Sunday your time, the puzzle appears, while I'm hoping to get it soon after 7pm Saturday evening here.
I like to settle down with the Everyman and get it mostly done before I go to sleep. But you'd have it if you looked at midnight. Maybe waiting for paper delivery...

Raffles, I can’t imagine how your wife lives with you without a little nip every now and then. 😉

Darla 😳 - why do husbands kiss their wives? To check their breath😃

Does anyone know why the Everyman puzzle is not appearing online as normal, I am getting a message saying sorry page not found. I have managed to download the puzzle from a link but cannot submit the answers online at the moment. It was the same yesterday.

Ethereal, thanks for that - I will now look forward to picturing you, and all/any other north Americans doing the puzzle while I am fast asleep. I'm only an occasional solver, and a recent one at that - I sometimes tackle it while I wait for the papers, with 'my' puzzles, to arrive.

Hally , if the online entry is not working, there is a helpful post by Yevrah at the conclusion of last week’s Everyman thread in which the Observer editor explains the other ways to enter.

Jono
Many thanks to you and Yevrah for this information and I have now emailed my solution to competitions@observer.co.uk.

Can I get some pointers on a few clues please?

4a Condition in which frost becomes frosted? (4)

WHAT KIND OF CLUE IS THIS? I don’t know where to begin.

8a Swagger, as sax player will do (4,4,3,4)

I thought this might be an anagram, but I can’t figure it out.

16d Revelled topless, titillated (7)

I am stumped

16 revelled=caroused
8 variant of blow ones own trumpet
4 [you have not typed the clue correctly...] lisp (making one pronounce "s" as "th").. so frost=frotht