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Are You Doing Well With Azed 2695, If So Please Help

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quinol | 17:41 Sun 11th Feb 2024 | Crosswords
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I'm tempted to give up on this as I can see some answers but have no idea how to enter them - perhaps 1 or 2 suggestions to start me off?

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Your best bet is probably to take a look at the blog for the last 'Give & Take' special:

https://www.fifteensquared.net/2018/05/27/azed-2397-give-take/

I started with the across clues. Look at the length of the grid entry compared to the enumeration in the clue and that will tell you what you need to deduct. Note deductions are always same letter. So in 1a for example it seems likely the definition is "preserve" for 9 letters and the wordplay needs to yield 7 letters to fit the grid. "Wild area" looks like wordplay and gives four letters so "youth" needs to be three letters. In general Azed has made the wordplay straightforward. I hope that helps. Don't give up! 

I could add that the last line of the preamble will not make sense until you uncover the quotation and locate the specific work in question.

I thought this was a very clever puzzle.

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much thanks for this - all the help I could wish for and read with interest

it convinced me I wasn't up to this sort of thing

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