this was great!! one of the main problems with newspaper cryptics is the reference points are like 70 years out of date, so this was a fun solve. DOS38DWindows ancestor: doors, oddly (3)[---], KNOT6DSinger Tunstall has no tie (4)[----], and NOR37DHard-boiled fiction? Not I, and not the other one either (3)[---] all really good clues. love the theme too, kept us guessing. we got stumped by ELO25DLynne's colleagues' chess rating (3)[---] though I'm afraid