Tea, toast, and Frank Cooper's are next on the agenda
I was thinking that '
Frank Cooper' must be obscure cockney rhyming slang for some post-breakfast bodily function, but then I found
THIS!
I nipped out to get a Metro, via my 6 km lumpy singlespeed loop. Unfortunately, the PPP had struck and the paper stand at the station was empty. Fortunately, a hunt around the premises revealed a discarded Metro which I picked up and brought home. I would tear out the puzzle page, discard the rest of the paper, and wash the Covid virions off my hands. Obviously, the plague-ridden paper reader would have completely ignored the puzzle page. Only I was wrong... the PPPS** had got there before me! The otherwise pristine paper was missing the very page that I was looking for. Great minds think alike... and are probably used to solve the Times or Guardian crosswords. Lesser minds (such as mine and the PPPS) also think alike, but make do with the Metro****!
** Phantom Puzzle Page Snaffler
**** I have been solving Times Quick Cryptic crossword puzzles as well. I have 3 books of them and have so far completed 60 of the 280 puzzles. I don't really need the Metro puzzles, but they are easier and I like to see if I can complete them while drinking my afternoon pot of coffee. I have a book of Full Metal Times Cryptics but I am not at that level yet. I have only managed about 20% of puzzle #1 after hours of trying. More practice required.