"Well,
this is a lovely entertaining QC", I thought as I worked through this
puzzle from Mara. I am reminded that my son has his driving test next
week by the amount of reversing involved. A bit of knowledge of African
geography may help and there are a couple of less common words (18A and
15D) that may not be in everyone's vocabulary. But deriving unknown
words from the wordplay is one of the joys of crossword solving, I
think. Some taut and concise clueing, which I always enjoy, and a good
number of entertaining surfaces too. I particularly liked those of 22A
and 23A, among others. I finished this in a significantly sub-average
time of 4:32, but maybe I was more in tune with our setter's thinking
than usual and luckily avoided getting fazed by the trickier bits. So
thanks Mara. Lovely Job! How did everyone else get on?
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