A typically entertaining Jumbo, this one, with plenty of straightforward clues to get you going but a few chewy bits as well A little trickier than average, I thought. Thank-you setter. How did you all get on?
Day: 12th November 2022
Times Cryptic No 28440 – Saturday, 5 November 2022. Please to remember … the fifth of November?
The fifth of November used to see celebration of Guy Fawkes day with firecrackers in Australia, but fire danger in hot and often dry weather put an end to that. So just a regular Saturday. The puzzle had some answers at the outer reaches of my vocabulary, gettable from wordplay.