A small contribution to this: I've just finished watching Simon Anthony solve last Friday's Times crossword. He paused to wax lyrical having just solved an &lit with 'criminal' as the anagrind. As a solver, he absolutely loved it.
Unfortunately there is still no 225 blog on this one, mate. I shall look forward to seeing it later in the day but will record my enjoyment of the puzzle here. Well done. You got me with the third of those you have chosen to highlight.
Sorry, Charlie. Simply doesn't work for me. There needs to be some kind of possessive link otherwise the instruction is, at best, telling me to put synonyms for those three words ahead of, presumably, something else. I don't see plurals or 'and' making your case I'm afraid.
Thanks for giving this a go, Liari. Sorry to have missed the live stream but enjoyed watching the video. And, yes, geezer is just a bloke where I come from ...
