This puzzle was originally published in The Sunday London Times on May 16, 2010
Introduction
I certainly found some of the wordplay in today's puzzle to be rather tricky - for example, 6d and 21d. However, I persevered and eventually succeeded in cracking all the clues.
Today's Glossary
Some possibly unfamiliar abbreviations, people, places, words and expressions used in today's puzzle
Appearing in Clues
Chips - nickname for a carpenter.
guy1 - verb ridicule.
make a song and dance about something - colloq to make an unnecessary fuss about it.
Appearing in Solutions
animadversion - noun criticism or censure
appro - abbreviation Brit. informal approval
cock - noun 3 Brit. informal nonsense.
County Down - one of the six counties forming Northern Ireland
London EC Postcode Area - a group of postcode districts in central London, England which includes almost all of the City of London.
Links to Solutions
A review of today's puzzle by talbinho can be found at Times for the Times [ST 4381].
Signing off for this week - Falcon
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