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WalrusBoy63, I hadn't given any thought to Cyclops being away on holiday. I didn't remember the previous puzzle being obscure, but I had to look back to check - and it was all pretty straightforward for me. I've been doing this puzzle for decades so can rattle it off pretty quickly now!

Fair play to you Malone, I used to be an ipaper devotee but started to find those too clouding - been doing The Eye for about a year now now and can mainly/usually finish unaided. I can’t do Viz without a copy of The Turtle’s head for reference! 😰

I’m late to the crossword and stuck on 6 down “hard in the morning “ fellow lives with Edward-awkward. With H?m-?i?t(e)d it ought to be easy, but just cannot see it.
As I struggled to parse 5 down, I’m questioning the h…

Hi Felly,

6d - "Hard in the morning" is 1,2 then 1 letter "fellow" 2 letter "lives" then 3 letter abbr. of "Edward" - definition is "awkward"

Parsinf of 5d is...

4 letter "mark" as you might get in a test then 4 letter "dicky" as in 'out of sorts' - definition is "carpet" in the sense of berate.

Actually, I've just realised I never fully parsed...

17d - Situation requires a bit of opera or I shift (8)

I have the answer and assume the final 3 letters are from "or I shift" but cannot see how the first 5 letters are arrived at?

Please cancel my 17d request.

I should have just looked then up in Chambers!!

Thanks Brendan, obvious when pointed out (5d).
Still not happy with 6d; perhaps the 1,2 and 3 come from “hard in tHE Morning”, and Fellow follows LIves?
Still don’t like it!!!

Thanks Brendan, obvious when pointed out (5d)!
Still not happy with 6d; perhaps the 1,2 and 3 come from “hard in tHE Morning”, and Fellow follows LIves?
Still don’t like it!!!

Hi again Felly,

I think there's some confusion regarding my 6d parsing post.

1 letrter "hard" then 2 letters for "in the morning" then 1 letter "fellow" then a 2 letter word for "lives" then 3 letters for "Edward"