Nothing especially cryptic about these clues, just comment about my failings, and those of the Graun.
Last week, I was looking at the Graun quick crossword, which we still try to do each day in honour of Phyllis's memory. I got stuck on the following:
Large wallflower (5). I got the letters H_P_ _ and couldn't think of anything which fitted. Then, right at the end of the crossword, I revisited the clue because it was one of the last two that I solved. Quite incredibly, the clue had changed to "Large wallower". I think I had imagined the extra -fl-.
However, moving onto today's Observer "Speedy" crossword, I got quite stuck on a clue: Winess (5). I had no clue what a winess was, and neither did Jan, so we cheated. The solution indicated strongly that the clue should have been Witness (6).
I'm now beginning to wonder whether the -fl- had been there all along, the crossword had been corrected and then my iPad had downloaded a later version of the clues. On the other hand, I could just be going senile.