I thought this a none-too-tricky Jumbo Cryptic, despite the smattering of words I didn’t know and some rather old-fashioned or foreign girl’s names.
Day: 23rd December 2023
Times Cryptic 28788 – Sat, 16 Dec 2023. In another century, and besides the wretch is dead!
At first glance I thought this was going to be hard. But, once I started, I fairly flew through it. There were two or three obvious answers, where I later had to search for details to explain the wordplay.