QC 1755 by Breadman

89 comments on “QC 1755 by Breadman”

1. Biffed ART DECO from checkers without reading the clue. Biffed THE GAMBIA from the enumeration. 6:17.
2. I had trouble with quoits, and had to just biff end. The Gambia went in with a shrug, I thought it was just Gambia.

   Of course, there were many easy ones that went in quickly as well. Time 11:36.

3. We’ve only had comments from seasoned solvers so far and I suspect this puzzle will not be viewed favourably by some of the QC-only brigade.

   I have my own misgivings because I had a complete mental block towards the end and for the first time ever I abandoned a QC (with 20 minutes on the clock) and returned to it having solved the 15×15 in only 26. The strategy worked in clearing my head because on coming back to it I finished it off after another 3 minutes, making a total of 23 minutes.

   Of course I thought END for 21dn but I couldn’t parse it so it wasn’t going in until I had the other checker to be provided by another clue I was stuck on. I had thought of LIMB for ‘arm’ at 20ac but couldn’t for the life of me think of anything to put in front of it, and was it then perhaps part of the wordplay rather than definition? I also couldn’t think of anything meaning ‘flash’ to go round AD (plug) at 14dn to arrive at a word meaning ‘mysterious’. Not my finest hour.

   END as a segment of play in a bowls match was completely unknown to me and I suspect not many of our solvers have heard of it. An answer better biffed and forgotten about perhaps.

   Edited at 2020-11-30 05:14 am (UTC)

   1. Too hard for me to finish today. A pity, I look forward to the Monday morning one as it’s usually been reasonably easy and a nice start to the week.
      There’ve been several difficult Mondays recently so perhaps that idea’s gone out of the window sadly.

      Diana

4. Jack, you need to get out a bit more – join the Leighton Buzzard Bowling Club or, nip down to Dunstable Down for a spot of hang-gliding! I’m thinking of joining the local Taekwando Club – just for kicks! Ike-bana is also on the menu.

   Time 11 minutes

   FOI 5ac OOPS!

   LOI 10ac HAYDN

   COD 13ac SUSSEX

   WOD 12ac THE GAMBIA although the stamps just say ‘GAMBIA’
   It just a river 300 miles long with only about 15 miles of land each side. Lovely people, food, music and leopards.

5. Started slowly with only five on the first pass of acrosses and wasn’t too much better on the downs and then solved steadily to finish all green (although the new practice of leaving the last letter in orange panicked me for a moment) in a respectable 14m. I made the same mistake as Jackkt in (rightly) thinking ‘arm’ was going to mean ‘limb; rather than being the whole definition and also let OOPS and EYED take too long and although I could see ‘shady’ adding the ‘ow’ to make SHADOWY took a lot of effort but my biggest regret is not bunging in SPITFIRE which was my first thought but I couldn’t parse at first reading so had to wait for ART DECO for my FOI. END caused me no problems, my student days coincided with the David Bryant / Tony Allcock golden age of televised crown green bowling! I liked this one, seemed impenetrable then yielded surprisingly gently.

   Edited at 2020-11-30 08:04 am (UTC)

   1. That orange letter thing is most disconcerting – let’s hope it disappears as mysteriously as it appeared.
   2. Bryant and Allcock didn’t play crown green bowls. They played flat / rink / lawn bowls.
      1. Yet another thing learned from this blog, thanks! Surprisingly enjoyable to spend a teabreak internet searching crown green and rink bowls – might be time for the inherited woods to come out the loft.
         1. Crown green bowls can look like organised chaos as you can play in any direction including across other games. I like to think it developed when a groundsman somewhere just couldn’t be arsed to make the green flat.
   3. Bryant and Allcock played lawn bowls. Crown green bowls is what they play oop North
6. On reflection cricket matches are, like baseball, divided into innings and not inningses.

   Originally the word was an ‘inning’ and the plural ‘innings’ – inningses is, I assure you, superfluous twaddle.

   I played cricket at many levels until I was 39. My last match was at The Oval for the ‘Denis Compton XI’ (two innings of 30 overs. I have never heard of this double pluralisation used in common parlance – perhaps the once in Goa (Goa v Tamil Nadu). I can assure you that there are four innings in all first class games.

   1. Except that in cricket ‘innings’ is both singular and plural. It seems strange to hear a baseball commentator referring to an ‘inning’ (but I only hear them on occasional visits to my brother in Canada – and not this year, of course).
7. Hurrah, no pink squares, which after last week’s struggles marks this out as a successful day. No major hold ups but the NW put up most resistance – where I needed to write out the anagram fodder for 1d, which led to HERRING and finally allowed me to assemble INSINCERE.
   I had no issues with any of the GK today which helped and I finished in 11.12 with WOD going to QUOITS.
   Thanks to astartedon
8. I found this one difficult, and I admit I gave up after only half an hour. Perhaps it was the Monday morning blues that prevented my heart from being in it today.

   FOI: SPITFIRE
   LOI: HIT THE SACK
   Favourite: OOPS (as I managed to work it out without aids)

   I spent far too long looking for an anagram of AT WORK KATH in 1a.

   I think I am too impatient with myself. I have been learning to solve cryptic clues for about a month now, and it seems that I am expecting to be able to complete them, without aids, in 5 minutes by now. Obviously I am setting my bar way too high. I am my own worst enemy at times.

   1. Can somebody suggest some goals/methods that I could give myself as I learn to solve these Cryptic Crosswords, please. Thank you.
      1. Just keep on trying and reading this blog PW, and all will eventually be revealed.
         1. You are absolutely right. One of the negative traits I have is that I will enthusiastically start a new project, but when I start having struggles with it, I’ll give up.

            Thank you for the encouragement! 🙂

            1. Rotter is right. Steadily solving, learning, picking up tips and comments from other solvers is a great help in getting to grips with crosswords (and getting more pleasure from the fights and successes). I started on my own years ago and, with the help of a thesaurus and dictionary, slowly progressed. I can’t say I find it easy even now but I look forward to the QC each day (and lots of other cryptic crosswords on a less regular basis) and, especially, to interacting with other bloggers on this site.
               I wish I had enjoyed the comments and reactions of the TfT bloggers when I was starting!
               Good luck. John
               1. Thank you.

                  I just find myself always assuming that everybody finds the QC and main cryptic easy, and that I am the only person who struggles with them. Yeah, I know, dumb! 🙂

               2. When I started about five years ago my first target was to get half way, then just to finish, then my times came down and my target is now 20 minutes.
                  What I found was that my progress was not smooth, I was stuck on half way for about six months, then on one hour for about a year, then one morning I started finishing in 30 minutes.
                  Don’t give up!

                  HTH

                  Brian

                  Edited at 2020-11-30 11:48 am (UTC)

                  1. I’m on 2 targets after several years, a) finish b) sub- 1 hour time. Today was DNF sadly, stuck on retry where I was fixated on ‘rugby’ although I knew it wasn’t right. 44 mins for the rest though.
            2. Well, at the beginning, you are constantly learning new things that everyone else knows already. It is useful to a beginner to make a list of the new tricks you have learned from each puzzle – writing them down will help you remember them, even if you never look at the list again.

               So what was new in this puzzle? On vacation = take out the middle letters? Companion = CH, companion of honour? AG is silver?

               The other thing you might do is go over to the Guardian crossword blog and read the ones in the Cryptic Crosswords for Beginners series.

               1. Could you please send me the link to Guardian blog you mention? I get the G online but I seem only to manage to get the crosswords themselves not the blog.
                  Diana

                  Don’t worry I’ve just found it!
                  D.

                  Edited at 2020-11-30 06:47 pm (UTC)

      2. Wyvern – don’t beat yourself up! Here’s one suggestion for you: you can access all the Times quickies (as well as loads of other crosswords) via the club website Just have a go at them for practice – and if you get stuck, you can still access the blogs here for explanations. Hope that helps. Most importantly though: some people like / need a target but for others, it’s just a break and a bit of fun 😊
      3. Just a postscript. After enjoying crosswords and keeping ‘at it’, I started to do the occasional weekend ‘prize’ cryptic and won a Cross ballpoint pen a couple of years ago. A big surprise. Since then I have been erratic sending things in but I have received a World Atlas (I assume from The Times) and, recently a smart Cross fountain pen (we no longer get the printed edition and I couldn’t find my name in the weekly winners). So even a still-developing solver like me can get the odd bit of recognition. Keep at it and you might have luck, too! 😎 Best wishes, John
   2. Just keep setting yourself new targets! When I started (without this blog) I just wanted to finish it before I got off the train (remember trains?), about 40 mins. Then I aimed for half an hour, then 20 minutes, then 15. Then I wanted to be faster than Kevin … just once … and when I finally did that (it’s still incredibly rare) I felt as though I had no more worlds to conquer. But someone pointed out I’d never broken 5 (which I’ve now done once or possibly twice). Now I aim for 10 minutes, usually make it but quite often don’t so I’ve probably reached my limit. Practice and persistence are the keys. Keep going!
   3. Wyvern, please take heart that I have been solving cryptic puzzles for 60 years, writing blogs for TfTT for 13 years and have solved every one of the 1756 Quick Cryptics to date of which I completed only 4 within 5 minutes. You will improve with practice but my advice would be to forget about speed and simply enjoy the solving experience.

      Edited at 2020-11-30 02:07 pm (UTC)

   4. I don’t want to discourage you, but I’ve been doing them for over three years and it’s still a Good Day, if I finish without aids. The 15×15 is a whole different country. I rarely venture there.

      Today’s was tough, definitely

      Edited at 2020-11-30 02:33 pm (UTC)

      1. “I don’t want to discourage you, but I’ve been doing them for over three years and it’s still a Good Day, if I finish without aids.”

         No, not at all. In fact, it actually encourages me. Thank you 🙂

         1. I must say that I am impressed with the attitude here from everybody. I was reluctant to chart my progress here, admitting it sometimes takes me an hour or so to complete, and even then I still have ti come here for the answers. I was half expecting have some ridicule me for the time it takes me to do. But I have been so pleasantly surprised.

            Thank you to you all for the encouragement and advice you provide.

   5. I did much the same with 1D, took ages for the penny to drop!

      Keep persevering, you do get better over time, and the satisfaction of working out a long cryptic clue without knowing the word its leading to is brilliant.

9. A tough start to the week and as hard as many of last week’s offerings for me. However, I just avoided the SCC today at 19.32 with the SE corner holding me up. I had the ELIMB in FORELIMB but the FOR didn’t click for a while and I biffed SHADOWY and EYED so thanks for the parsing, Don. QUOITS was my LOI, also biffed, and entered with a sigh of relief. Some clever clues but quite a test overall. Thanks to Breadman and Don. It was really worth going through Don’s blog post-solve to savour some excellent clues. John M.
   P.s. forgive a dumb question but the mentions of pink, green, orange squares in posts above makes me wonder which site is being used to complete the puzzle? I’m sure I should know but I don’t see them when I (occasionally) use the Times Crossword site. I normally use an iPad.
10. Like others , I found this tough in places. FOI was OOPS. Some fun clues en route: BEAT IT we’ve seen recently but it still works. Thought 1a would end LING which caused me quite a delay. The two holding me up at the end were SHADOWY and LOI the unknown FORELIMB -the parsing got me there. I knew that ends were played in bowls ( I don’t play myself but have seen it on TV in the past, played by men smoking pipes). 14:33 on the clock.
    David
11. I don’t normally do well with Breadman offerings but I managed this in around 10 so I was pleased. I put in The Gambia because it had to be but needed your explanation astartedon so thanks to you and Breadman of course!. I’m in a Petanque league where we play ends too so I got lucky there.
    1. No one’s mentioned curling yet,which is how I learned of ends.
       1. Same here!
12. I dare say it is against the conventions of this blog to comment on a previous crossword but the word NOVELISE is in my 20-year-old Times Dictionary, though not Noveliser. Anyway it was a word I knew, so not unheard of. Just wanted to defend Margaret and Bob. Perhaps it was the ‘r’ at the end solvers didn’t like.
    1. I don’t remember the issue, if there was one, but anyway, if you can -ise, then you can have an -iser. Simple as that.
    2. The issue wasn’t whether it “existed”, it was whether it was an appropriate word for the QC. Given that it’s not in Lexico (the Oxford online) or Chambers online, it’s clearly very obscure and so in my view it wasn’t appropriate. On we go!
       1. It isn’t obscure to me! I have found many other QC words obscure but not this one. As someone said here, everyone’s GK is different.
13. … meant that this took me lots longer than I would have liked. It was 3 down, INSINCERE, what done it. I made it much harder for myself by deciding, somewhere in the nether regions of my brain, that I was looking for some obscure word that meant a religious class or caste. That blinded me to the rather obvious – in hindsight – RE ending. I also struggled with the perfectly straightforward 6 down, PORTENT, where I was trying to add an L for left into P*R*ENT. Ah, well….

    Some great clues here. Very much liked 13 across, SUSSEX, which made me giggle, ditto 15 across, BEAT IT.

    Thanks so much, Don, for the, as always, super blog and thanks, too, to Breadman.

14. Stared at LOI SHADOWY for 5 or 6 mins before deciding to post a DNF. Alphabet trawl gave 14 plausible second letters, then not really sure if the outer word was three or four letters, and how it fitted, didn’t have a synonym for ‘plug’: sometimes admitting defeat is the right call.

    S for society? As in RSPB? Can’t think of a better example.

    Trivia question: which countries have “The” in front of them, and doesn’t it sound a bit colonial such as The Sudan, The Lebanon etc. It seems Ok in front of plurals such as The Philippines, The Bahamas.

    COD SUSSEX

    1. The sat-nav in my old Volvo used to insist on The Netherlands, which caused a bit of a panic the first time I did an alphabetical search for it…
       1. My old satnav said it had 45 countries, but did not know of one called France. I now have a new satnav.
    2. We used to have The Argentine and The Czech Republic. And there’s the United States and the United Kingdom, if that’s a country.
15. Taken over my target to 18 minutes here, with INSINCERE LOI despite having all the checkers. THE GAMBIA also proved elusive, and SHADOWY. No complaints though, a good puzzle and blog – thanks both.
16. 
    …what was going on with 23A, having assumed the “ed” but not having the crossing Y and not twigging what the “on vacation” was about. In retrospect I should have just concentrated on the literal more and then parsed. I have learned to see this device with “empty”, “gutted” etc but this was too smooth for me. Overall however an enjoyable puzzle for this SCC member. Plymouthian.
    1. I don’t get the “on vacation” either. It’s probably something so obvious I just can’t see it.
       1. Not at all obvious. I’ve never seen it before (and it makes no sense).
       2. If you vacate a room the inside is empty only the walls are left, if you vacate “envoy” you are left with the outside “ey”.
          1. Thanks – I saw another explanation further on.

             I had holiday in mind when I saw “vacation” – so was thinking the “on” had gone on holiday rather than the whole interior of the word. Silly I know!

17. RETRY and HERRING were first 2 in. Then a steady solve with QUOITS and FORELIMB bringing up the rear and taking some thinking time. No trouble with END, as the Miners’ Welfare, where I played snooker as a teenager had a bowling green and tennis courts, and we used to play the occasional game of bowls too. I almost forgot to proof read the down clues, which would have been a mistake as I found an errant SOADOWY at 14d! 9:15. Thanks Breadman and Don.
18. Toughie this and a DNF, foiled by SHADOWY, INSINCERE and EYED. Guessed FORELIMB and CHATEAU.
19. Put HEED instead of Eyed. (Envoy = H.E . in my mind) which made Shadowy difficult.

    Oh, belatedly see parsing of SUSSEX.

    I kept guessing the right words but couldn’t parse, so wasn’t sure. Must remember Ad = plug

    No problem with End anyway. FOsI Off, Oops, Art Deco, Arson, Cotton Wool

    Thanks all, as ever. Liked Herring, Spitfire, Oops

20. Afraid this was a dnf for me today – continuing on from last weeks fairly difficult offerings.

    Was going along quite smoothly until the SW corner. Annoyingly, I had a lot of the answers, but just couldn’t parse them. 17ac “Chateau” was obvious but missed the ‘Companion of Honour’, similarly couldn’t work out “Eyed”. Still don’t understand this – doesn’t the vacation relate to the “on” in envoy, if so where does the “v” go?

    Should have got 14dn “Shadowy” and even though I knew 16dn was probably “Quoits”, for some inexplicable reason I though it began with a “c”.

    Disappointing start to the week.

    FOI – 7ac “Tat”
    LOI – dnf
    COD – 3dn “Insincere”

    Thanks as usual.

    Edited at 2020-11-30 02:05 pm (UTC)

21. Perhaps someone can help. Why is ‘envoy on vacation=ey.’ I don’t understand why this means leave out the nvo.
22. For a long time I thought I was going to finish just north of 20 mins, but my last pair Shadowy/Sussex put paid to that idea. Not seeing how 13ac worked, I initially biffed the wrong reserve lorry park, and then spent ages trying to make R*a*o*y into something mysterious, before common sense prevailed. Quoits was my only other significant hold up. So, a once in a lifetime chance of a sub-Jacktt became a 30min finish. CoD to 20ac, Forelimb – I do like a good build-up clue. Invariant
23. To “vacate” somewhere is to leave it empty. If you “empty” the word “envoy”, in other words if you remove its middle, you are left with its first and last letters (EY). Hence “envoy on vacation” = “envoy after emptying it out” = EY.

    It’s worth remembering “on vacation” because it crops up reasonably regularly.

    1. Thanks for clearing that up – thought it had something to do with “on” specifically rather than emptying out the whole word.
24. I did not finish but thought it a fair puzzle. I cannot understand eyed. Why does envoy on vacation get rid of the nvo. I am still learning but that made no sense to me.
    1. If you ‘vacate’ a word you are left with only the first and last letters of the word. The rest having been taken out or vacated.Its just one of those codewords that you have to learn.
       PlayUpPompey
       1. Thanks
25. GA is the magazine of the Geography Association. Hence an alternative parsing is THE + GA + MBA with I inserted. Today’s totally useless contribution. Thought this quite tough for a Monday, but enjoyed it.
    PlayUpPompey
26. We actually managed to complete all but 14D in a reasonably fast time. But it took us ages to get shadowy and we ended up with a completion time of 21 minutes. Really enjoyed the puzzle – thanks Breadman.

    FOI: herring
    LOI: shadowy
    COD: Sussex

    Thank you Astartedon – we liked your blog

27. Good puzzle, hard for a Monday, FOI SPITFIRE, LOI FORELIMB, COD SPANIEL, time 2k for a Decent Enough Day.

    Thanks Breadman and Don.

    Templar

28. Having struggled recently with the QC with regularly one or two clues not solved I was on the wavelength today.

    FOI Herring (always a good sign when it is 1a)
    LOI Forelimb
    COD Sussex

    Insincere went in unparsed

29. Tough one for a Monday, taking me 21 mins from start to finish. Never managed to parse 13ac (thanks Astartedon for making that clear) and I am with those who did not understand the phrase “on vacation” to mean taking the first and last letters of a word. I don’t think this is a common device as I don’t recall seeing it before.

    FOI – 5ac OOPS
    LOI – 13ac SUSSEX
    COD – 14dn SHADOWY

    1. It’s a common device in the 15×15
30. Finished in 6:23, with HERRING LOI. I was insistent that the fish was LING, so struggled for a bit..

    Enjoyed the “smut” at 13 and 15 across.

31. I got off to a good start with FOI 1d but in the end I had to give up as I could not work out any of 13a, 14d and 23a. There were too many possibilities in each case so aids were useless though I did wonder about ‘shadowy’. I wouldn’t have thought of ad for plug. I must remember that meaning of congress for future reference but I’m still puzzled by 23a. Does ‘vacation’ mean ‘take out the middle’ or is it ‘take out ‘on’ and ‘v’ for vacation’?
    COD. My husband definitely doesn’t see junk (or this blog).
    Thank you both.
    Blue Stocking
32. Marvellous stuff smut! But there are a few ‘Miss Jean Brodies’ around – so please snigger quietly!
33. I really enjoyed this QC and found it in the tough but well worth persevering category. Complete in 41 mins so an excellent time for me (the current goal is to complete with minimal aides and preferably around the hour mark, despite having been solving these for the best part of a year already!)

    As ever, thank you for the blog, without which 17A and 23A would have remained forever unparsed. And thanks a highly rewarding puzzle.

    COD 16D Quoits for appearing only from the cryptic elements, nho it.
    FOI 5A Oops
    LOI 3D Insincere

    1. Quoits is a good game to play on the deck of a ship. Same principle as, say, bowls as far as I remember. The quoits don’t bounce – they are/were small leather or rope rings.

       Edited at 2020-11-30 05:57 pm (UTC)

34. … and took me 14 minutes, above my average overall let alone for the “easy” end of the week. In fact I have the impression that our setters are in general tightening the screw and ratcheting up the difficulty a bit – several harder-than-usual ones recently.

    But all fair and all parsed, even though it took a while to see Congress = sex in 13A. Not one I’ve met before so another to store away. LOI 14D Shadowy, and COD 25A Beat it, very nice clue.

    Much discussion – indeed multiple discussions – above on how to parse “envoy on vacation” in 23A, which makes me wonder how many people read earlier posts before adding theirs.

    Many thanks to Don for the blog, concise and helpful as always
    Cedric

35. Thank you all so much for taking the time to comment. I’m glad I’m not the only one who found it a bit more difficult than a lot of the recent Monday puzzles.

    Thank you also for your kind comments about finding the explanations helpful. That is the only reason I and the other bloggers are here and when you tell us we have helped that is the greatest reward we can have.

    I do try to comment back to people where a post catches my eye but sometimes I don’t get a chance until the end of the day. And by that time everybody has usually got bored and got on with the rest of their day and isn’t likely to look back here. So this is the tree falling in the forest or the sound of one hand clapping or the supernova explosion in the vacuum of space. Probably nobody will notice it.

    But thank you all nonetheless!

    Don

    1. you might be surprised!
36. No real problems today with GK or construction, but the real achievement has been to complete it ‘on the day’! Back to a helpful grid too. FOI 8a. LOI 23a (until I figured out the significance of ‘vacating’. COD 1d where I figured out 3+3+4 immediately bit needed a second look to make it work. Certainly a harder than I would expect start to the week and hope this doesn’t create distaster by Friday!
    Thx to Breadman for the workout, and our blogger for being so clear and helpful. usual interesting discussions.
37. 11:15 today :(. Not helped by putting in HEED for 23a, which made SHADOWY a struggle! Was also fixating on LING as part of 1a, which again wasted too much time. Never mind, there’s always tomorrow.

    H

38. Didn’t find this one too bad, so I was surprised that several of the people I measure myself against (I’m usually at least a few minutes slower than them, but just occasionally I come out on top) found it hard or even DNFed. I ended up with 33:32, but I would have been quite a bit faster had I not biffed INSINUATE for 3d which made SUSSEX more tricky than it needed to be. LOI 3d, COD 16d. Thanks all.
39. Slowly progressed with a false sense of confidence until I ground to a halt with QUOITS, SHADOWY and FORE as in LIMB. No problem with THE GAMBIA despite, like Don, opting out of History and Geography at the age of 14. Brought to book when 2 sons read Geography at university (apparently not just colouring in maps) and became self sufficient with jobs in the City. Who could have guessed it.
    Thanks Don and Breadman
40. Why is envoy on vacation ey?
    1. As some others have said, if you ‘empty’ the word ENVOY you get rid of the contents, i.e. the letters in the middle, thus: ENVOY.

       Several others have had this difficulty and I wonder is it a problem with getting away from the ‘surface‘ reading of ‘on vacation’ as being ‘on holiday’? This is exactly the sort of misdirection that is commonplace in the 15×15 (as another contributor has said) so learning about this here should be a useful lesson for stepping up to that puzzle.

       Think of an alternative meaning of ‘vacation’ (= vacating as opposed to holiday) as ‘emptying’, so the ‘on vacation’ becomes ‘on emptying’. In grammatical terms the noun ‘vacation’ becomes the gerund ‘emptying’ (or so I remember from my grammar half a century ago!).

       As I said, I think this puzzle is a bit more challenging than the normal Monday fare and this treatment of ENVOY is certainly a case in point. Maybe you could say Breadman is being a bit harsh, but I think it is just tough love. He is gently trying to introduce a device that should get people stepping things up a gear towards 15×15 levels.

       Does that make sense?

       Don

       1. Thanks. That does! So much to learn!
41. DNF today after confident FOI of 1A SKATING. Just me then. BFM.
42. I did not finish but thought it a fair puzzle. I cannot understand eyed. Why does envoy on vacation get rid of the nvo. I am still learning but that made no sense to me.
    1. As above – if you ‘vacate’ ENVOY, thus: ENVOY, what do you have left?
43. Since 1974, there has not been a “Sussex”, it having become East and West…
    1. OK, but there is still a Sussex, there are just East and West bits of it. I mean, there may not be an official county any more, but somebody could still describe a place as being ‘in Sussex’. Just as there is a London. I live in London, and it just so happens in West London, and North of the river, but still in London nonetheless.

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