The monopoly group was reasonably easy. The Bury group was superb - hard but fair, no specialist or niche knowledge was required. The FA group however, demanded information which by no stretch of the imagination could be classed as lying within the scope of "good general knowledge".

As for Congleton bear... Well, seriously?
I grew up within 30 miles of there, and had a friend who lived in Sandbach (about 5m away), so I visited frequently. Today is the first time I have heard of it.

It is easy to write a hard wall if you throw in such ridiculously obscure stuff. The real challenge is to stick to items which can be expected to be known by anyone with a good general knowledge, and yet still flummox them.

Nighteyes, could you please direct us to your submitted grids so we can all critique those as pedantically as you do for others?