loved it - got it on the second go.
I needed asterisks!!!

I had them at first but I'm nasty and took them away- they made it a bit obvious ;) glad you liked

haha it took me two minutes to work out the structure, which you think I would have been able to work out :(

you'd

Never heard of chicken fish! (Still got it though!) Very good - clever red herrings too!

brill...

Nice work, challenging but fun

Yar- there are some less well known facts here, but I tried to pair a tricky with an obvious to keep the balance right and keep up a level of challenge- glad you won. Hope life is ok! Thanks all for very kind comments x

Exquisite - 5*

Thanks for doing these Lorna.

Great puzzle, that little bit different. Got it all right, but only on the second go! And great groups too. Never heard of Nuremberg Egg.

Full marks with 26 secs remaining. Fairly easy apart from spending a good few seconds deliberating the Spring Out group as not familiar with fish in that context so had doubts. Good quality but not fiendish.

I managed to get the egg reference, although I have no idea what a Nuremberg or Curate's egg is! I thought there was something to do with gold, but only figured that out once they'd all been sorted. As for the rest, pfft. I must be a right doughnut! :-) I'll blame it on the wine...

wonderful- great pope clue!

Nope.

popeosterously eggcellent, quite the golden nugget ya got there ;)

Difficult

Chicken Fish? Even Wikipedia has no idea..

With this meany clues it should feel easier, but it didn't!

tegg

Loved this one. Super clever connections

Having 2 separate words in a box that are not one term was a bit misleading... You have to figure out the trick which kind of puts another puzzle on top of the puzzle which I suppose makes it much trickier, but it doesn't really adhere to the rules... Also what does a Fish have to do with a Chicken?

Very fiendish but clever.
Never heard of chicken fish...
Thanks

Not sure about chickens but intriguing

Outdtanding, as usual

Another lovely wall. Warm and satisfying like a good meal.
Thank you.

10/10 with 7 seconds remaining!

Lovely I lov it