Both clever and original and did for oddball entirely!

Very difficult, but enjoyable with interesting connections. Since the connections were so tough, it helped that it wasn't overloaded with extra complexity from a lot of crossovers and red herrings.

Loved this--had a few goes but couldn't get beyond Ministers until last 30 seconds!

Absolute shite! Pins?? For feck's sake! Is that the best you can do with nanosecond?? JC wept!!

Been away for a while. This was a nice one to come back to.

Thanks for the comments guys. Yes this is probably one of my harder ones. Glad most of you liked it! (Deirdre - that the connections are rather obscure is kind of THE WHOLE POINT. Have you ever done a cryptic crossword before? To me it's the same kind of thinking)