This cryptic crossword is ridiculously difficult!

Tackling the hardest cryptic clues (and answers) that appear anywhere - the Times's Monthly Club Special crossword for August
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[@RandomBurfness]

I wouldn't mind this becoming a monthly series!

[@Ruddigore]

A grid full of words I have never heard of, let alone used in conversation. Have spent a pleasant hour looking them all up.

[@kea2878]

I shouldn't laugh, but I couldn't help it at HUMP THE DUMPY.

[@richardj3880]

Didn’t know if “light carriage” was C for the speed of light. And Huxley second novel Antic Hay

[@epsilonzero77]

Anti would be opposed, so removing that from the title you get chay...a light-weight carriage, a variation of chaise. A chair on wheels it would seem.

[@neilgerace355]

Bertillonage was an identification technique ("forensic anthropometry") that was displaced by fingerprinting.

[@dragonzord250]

I’m really bad at cryptics but I’ve watched this channel for a while and I’m really proud that I was able to get 10d.

[@Phog273]

Bonkers level of difficulty! Great to watch and Mark's dry humour made me chuckle (especially "hump the dumpy, what the hell does that mean?!")

[@bristolrovers27]

Excellent, could I suggest it becomes a regular monthly event

[@vinyl1Earthlink]

I watched the whole video knowing the Flaubert novel off the top of my head - you could have made much better progress if you had it at the outset. I also remember the Bertillon measurements, that preceded fingerprints in law enforcement. I still wouldn't have finished.

[@at8ax]

27a seems to be a reference to "Antic Hay," anti-chay, but even with that, I *still* don't quite grok the clue.

[@pre4edgc]

It's opposed by Antic Hay, so it's Anti-Antic Hay, or Anti-Anti chay, so just chay.

[@davidbod]

Huxley's second novel is "Antic Hay", or if you like ANTI-CHAY. Not a great clue, given the dodgy spacing.

[@ipudisciple]

Spacing can always be deceptive. It's just a nun stated rule.

[@GenWivern2]

Have you tried the Saga Magazine crossword, gentlemen? Listener vocabulary in a badly constructed blocked grid ... and pretty decent clue writing. I consider it the hardest non-barred puzzle around, but I'm not a Times subscriber.

[@rogerwprice]

not only did i not understand one of the clues but I have never seen any of the answers!

[@carteryott7710]

Rump Fed!

[@MitsuoRLCoach]

i know russian style fighting sometimes could be Sambo, no clue on the novel though

[@goodyeoman4534]

7D. The compiler was having a good chuckle at that one, wasn't he? Or she?

[@helenm4357]

Antic Hay

[@Wecoc1]

That's not difficult at all, I use all those words every jippi-jappy day

[@maxistraifms]

I mean I'm not a native speaker, but you seriously make me doubt my english skills. :(

[@amritlohia8240]

Pretty much no-one knows or uses these words, and certainly you would never hear them in everyday, or even educated, conversation.