Very nice QC. And one of my fastest times; I was only 7 seconds behind Jamie!

Great stuff - seen it now. Thanks for indulging me. You might want to check out the parse of 10a. I do remember the cricketer you mentioned but he has nothing to do with how the clue works!

If it isn’t too much trouble, obvs

Ooh, thanks! I’m out this morning. Hope to watch it back later 😃

Heron is back in the Times Quick Cryptic today, do pop in for a look!

Thanks! 😃

Excellent! 👏

Football was my first love and yet golf and table tennis are my main sports 😮

If it helps, 1a read: 501? That’s perfect! (4,4,6) Still quite pleased with that given the context. But looking back now, the puzzle is a little suspect in places!

I couldn’t possibly comment!

I vaguely remember refreshing for large chunks of the night when I had 501 lined up 😂

Whatever happened to the age-old tradition of refreshing every 5 seconds?

Very nice Monday fare, thanks Void. Faves: 9a, 21a, 4d

Cheers Matt. I think you’ll find that Chambers justifies the two synonyms you questioned.

That was so much fun to watch. In case you haven’t realised yet, all of my words were completely made up - you won’t find them in any list or dictionary. So you did really well to solve it!

Oh gawd! Only just starting to watch it now. Hope it wasn’t too traumatic.