Puzzle Notes

Hello, my fellow cryptic lovers! Today's puzzle is a debut from the wonderful Chris Evans. A little about Chris:

Chris is a British puzzler who's been solving cryptics for a decade and a half. He started setting them during the first lockdown in the UK and published puzzles to mpcryptics.blogspot.com for two years. He's hoping to one day see one of his puzzles appear in a UK paper.

I hope you enjoy the solve! Remember, we're still open for clue submissions, but only for the next few days, so don't tarry for too long if you'd like to submit!

Cheers,

The AVCX Cryptic team