A puzzle for readers of the Times for the Times blog. Mr Magoo says that this and his other bonus puzzle were written in response to challenges I made to setters in the old single-handed version of the blog. In this case, I can tell you that I think the challenge was something about high numbers of 15-letter answers or minimizing the extra black squares added to the standard grid lattice with answers in odd rows and columns. This grid uses just four extra black squares.
| 1 | Shakespeare's using one's own material to make assistant be full? (4-11) |
| 9 | Express precisely what digital surgeon attempts? (3,4,6,2) |
| 10 | Traditional invitation of fair fag? (4-2) |
| 11 | Foolish typo penned by idiotoic censor omitting round characters (ciphers) (8) |
| 13 | Clubman disheartened to have tea filling whole pipe (10) |
| 14 | Bamber Gascoigne's inner musician (4) |
| 16 | Party mentioned twice by one who kissed the girls (4) |
| 17 | Most slight actress working to secure extraordinary win (10) |
| 19 | Post something fragile like this posthaste (2,1,5) |
| 20 | Covered up, unlike the Windmill Theatre in wartime? (6) |
| 22 | During recording, I put name into floppy that cannot be corrected (15) |
| 23 | Pets, and not people, who have volunteered? (7,8) |
| 1 | Laying on extra punishment (15) |
| 2 | Lacking in intelligent ground, islander is dismissed as parochial person (6,9) |
| 3 | Tabloid broke increase in solar power (8) |
| 4 | America enthralled by extremely butch President (4) |
| 5 | Briefly, Alan turing's excited by right kind of number (10) |
| 6 | Script I rolled up to conceal inside of page (6) |
| 7 | Queen leaves her water upside-down, starting off wise and blameless? (15) |
| 8 | Wisdom saw head after summer holiday (4-11) |
| 12 | Cool cop stops kings being weepy? (5,5) |
| 15 | Joke about river not out to revolt (3-5) |
| 18 | Discharges company about to become a failure (6) |
| 21 | Down clue rrequiring another note to begin with (4) |