This was pretty much an ordinary Monday puzzle, with a few clever constructions that are starting to creep in, along with one or two rather loose constructions.

30 minutes, more or less. I solved this puzzle on the regular Times site (not the Crossword Club), so it wouldn’t accept my puzzle as correct. After checking every answer I finally used the Check Puzzle feature and discovered my “mistake”.

All this aside, I thought this was a delightful puzzle. Some fabulous definitions.

Time taken: 14:02. The wordplay in this puzzle is intricate – I smacked myself when I saw some of the answers, but the early solvers are making heavy weather of it!