For those who like such things, I highly recommend today's Guardian Prize Crossword. It's top notch Araucaria and, of course, it's now free.

14 Across in today's Guardian Prize for f4f3. Made me chuckle anyway.

Where Rome couldn't win, Scots can't (6)

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These two clues amused me today (again, it's possibly germane that the Guardian is involved)

1. Dubiously legal, if extraordinary, performance (9)

2. Town reportedly excluded a former dictator (8,5)

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From todays's Guardian cryptic

10,26 Mad myth's 'ere - at first reader is misled? (7,5,3,2,7)

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I wonder if anyone has ever been sued for libel over a crossword clue. Anyway, the following appears in today's Guardian cryptic.

14. Rival gets ammunition first - like Jeb Bush? (6,6)

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No one crossword should contain clues to which the answers are "Scooby Doo" and "Jogger's Nipple". Just saying.

From today's Grauniad prize crossword:

"New rich don't let Ladybird help in Thailand with gin and it - good cocktail - new, possibly his memento" (if anyone 22 I'm de-11-ing 16 across) (11,4,4,1,2,5,2,4,4,4,3)

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I hate crossword clues involving or appertaining to vegetation. I hate with a burning passion crossword clues that involve or appertain to stupid Tennysonian synonyms for vegetation.