Connections were not easy to guess

Awesome grid! 5 stars :)
Had to get each group one by one but just managed

The 'aut' one tricked me!

The half-words make this one a bit too easy, it's a bit too natural to fill them in and get the categories from there. Still fun!

sauerkraut is how you spell it!

Very good. (But it's spelt sauercr...)

oops! should have spent longer checking! Sorry. thanks for the feedback, this is my third grid :) Didn't want the incomplete words to be too hard as there were 2 groups of them- and my first 2 attempts to compile grids got re-graded as fiendish! Was trying to aim for an easier one

Excellent grid. Nice red herrings. I got 10 in 1:09, so I'd say the level was not too difficult.

I'm looking forward to your future efforts.