Easier than most of your others Sudo, but excellent crossovers between the categories. Nice grid.

Yeah pretty easy, but pretty good too.

3+

Oh dear, I must be having a bad day! Everybody else found this a bit easy, but it took me ages to solve it!

Thanks for the positive comments everyone.
My intention was that the the words would be really easy and the difficulty would come from working out which groups they fell into. There were lots of red herrings.
I spent a lot of time on this grid and it's probably the one I'm most pleased with.

"I spent a lot of time on this grid and it's probably the one I'm most pleased with."

So... there is a reward to putting some considerate thought into your puzzles? to not just churning out NAJ?

Well, I'll be ;)

It's Barnaby! We would all just love to do one of your grids. What name are they under?

Nice - would have liked a couple more red-herrings but ,overall, tidy...

Quickest I've done one - but enjoyed it!

Excellent - I just messed up the Captain and Doctor groups.

good

we enjoyed this

we enjoyed this

The group containing Salt could also be linked as materials used as PHEERAPVRF

The mine catagory are also wedding anniversaries