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That was an excellent puzzle from the Telegraph. Thank you, Martin, for your very clear parsing of each clue.

Some excellent clues as always and great fun. I think I’m getting better at solving anagrams quickly instead of having to write all the letters scrambled

I got that one! 😎

The word is banana

Lovely stuff, a very enjoyable solve 🧠

I got confused between what was the direct clue and what was the wordplay. nice one

First two thoughts was Feminist or Fanatic, but I love how perfectly adherent fits as well as the explanation of how to figure out the answer.(Not sexist, just abrasive.)

3D - Terce is one of the divine offices (like prime and vespers), the OED informs me

No worries regarding the web crash, but I have noticed over the last several videos that the clue window tends to cut off the last one or two clues.

This is fantastic 😎

FUGITIVE :) Sometimes I find it easier to work backwards, especially when the definition is obvious.

I like ur style sir, was fun doing this crossie together

Loving our new den of nerds!

Hugely enjoyable, Tim and Martin. Loved the callbacks and self-referencing and, especially, the economy. Lincoln Green, like tights themselves, is a bit of a stretch.

(SPOILER ALERT) I can see why newspapers have editors! I apologise for the shiny surfaces that caught my eye without providing enough fodder for the solver. Snapper possibly/dish in yesterday's newspaper is my attempted but failed double definition of whitefish with a surface intended to suggest paparazzi. I thought everyone on earth would pick up on the entirely superfluous reference in 20a to the brilliant Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, but there is clearly one lout on the planet who doesn't appreciate his genius! Lincoln Green, the green colour (lush cast) of hosiery worn by the Merry Men (Men In Tights) clearly needed an added explanatory definition but I was seduced by the brevity of the joke and I can see that it isn't playing fair with the solver. I had "green cast" at first but then "lush cast" was just a great joke but I should have added another clause to level the playing field. Suggestions welcome for how to clean that one up. Great solve Martin. Unfortunately you're my editor so you get the raw material and have to clean it up in real time on camera. The least I can do is buy you a coffee.

I suspect whitefish is just a double definition?

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Any chance your puppy could make an appearance in one of your videos? 🐶

I thought it was Lincoln from the crossing letters. And isn't Lincoln Green a colour? And green is lush?

So many great surfaces, with clever threading of Robin Hood. And Fox duck etc deserves to be in a crossword hall of fame

Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus. Either way you look at it, this is a good example! (10)

We need a dog cam!

A great video explaining a great puzzle. I particularly liked the the 11a Spoonerism.

China is Cockney rhyming slang - China Plate = Mate. Good videos, everything is well explained.

Nice one, enjoy the puppy shenanigans

In Australia, but that didn’t stop me working my way through the four seasons.

The Times clue needs a?

Donkey jacket. Apparently Michael Foot's wife wasn't happy about that because of the sartorial inaccuracy.

Battle cry

Ruby Murray was a singer.

Liszt

Tower

Your videos help me learn cryptic crosswords the logics of the clues are amazing 😊😊

I got that one!

Got this one.

Another fine puzzle from the Telegraph. I figured that NO- HOPER was the correct answer for 13a quite early on. However, it took a long time for me to realise that “mobile” was being used as an anagram indicator! Thanks for the video.

Some witty surfaces there, even adding your own joke conflating Captain Hook and Long John Silver! I bet the setter wishes they'd thought of that.

Thanks, I do look forward to the guardian easy. Do you have any insight in to cognitive methods for solving anagrams? I notice the guardian arranges the letters in a circle. That definitely helps, but curious if there are other methods. Also, is it cheating?

25&28 across were hilarious. And I got quite a few. Great puzzle

On 23d i think the homophone is leak read backwards kale?

Nice!

Lovely puzzle. Lots of great clues. Managed to solve most of it before you’re excellent solve. Kicking myself for not seeing “ Gong” before you explained it, Martin.

Some great clues there!

Quite benign for a Friday. Or maybe you just make it look like that : ) Great solving.

Thanks for the tip on the mycrossword website. Easy to share (even for a Luddite like me) and let's the setter concentrate on wordplay and surfaces rather than grid construction.

why is student L?

Yay! Got this one.

Neat = cattle. Archaic. En = spacing in typography.

Neat = Ox, cow, bull according to Chambers. Never heard of that meaning before.

keeping fit.... fit = apt. so, fit is inside cain... cain is keeping fit. Nice clue.