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I'm completely stuck, everything I try to fill in seems to clash!
Any hints would be appreciated!
Hope you all have a good Bank Holiday
Any hints would be appreciated!
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I missed this on Saturday Ripper (busy re-grouting the shower room all weekend , finished now - hooray !) - any chance you could send me a copy and I'll try to help, thanks !
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Hi Ripper, this is quite a tricky puzzle. You have to study the preamble carefully. Where clues have a letter (wherever it occurs in the answer) missing when entered in the grid, the wordplay for the clue doesn't include that letter. So, for example, 2dn needs to have the "t" of "yet" removed, and the answer is MANY-EYED, but the wordplay suggests MNYEYED (YE +YE in MND (Motor Neurone Disease)), and that's how it has to be entered. So the A will be removed from all crossing answers of the first of the pairs.
And in 16dn, the "t" of "fast" has to be removed from the clue and the answer is FLASHBULB. The wordplay gives FLASHUL, an anagram of FAS HULL. Again, that's how it's entered. So the B will be removed from all crossing answers of the second of the pairs.
The originators are pretty famous writers of light opera, and guessing them will help fill the grid and possibly find the glee.
Good luck
Turnerjmw
And in 16dn, the "t" of "fast" has to be removed from the clue and the answer is FLASHBULB. The wordplay gives FLASHUL, an anagram of FAS HULL. Again, that's how it's entered. So the B will be removed from all crossing answers of the second of the pairs.
The originators are pretty famous writers of light opera, and guessing them will help fill the grid and possibly find the glee.
Good luck
Turnerjmw
Hi Ardboe. Good stuff. Those were the letters I had, too, and I went with the plural article which would be found in "Figaro" (the French newspaper), and a three letter word for a type of line in landscape, giving a girl's name. I did think, though, that there were three clues which didn't need a letter removed (not two), and that this was one, the others being 21ac and 8dn. I'm pretty sure the first line of the glee has only 29 letters, and there are 32 clues.
You're most welcome, Ardboe, and very well done on cracking it. I just hope I didn't give too much away and spoil anyone's fun.
An interesting and enjoyable puzzle, I thought, not least because the usual aids, like searchable dictionaries, don't help much, as you don't know how many occurrences of the removed letter there are.
Best wishes
Turnerjmw
An interesting and enjoyable puzzle, I thought, not least because the usual aids, like searchable dictionaries, don't help much, as you don't know how many occurrences of the removed letter there are.
Best wishes
Turnerjmw
Finally cracked it thanks to you turnerjmw, at least you gave us a launching point with the two said names, I found the preamble by phi very unclear, thankgoodness for your explaination. Usually we manage to solve two out of three of these, this one was particually tricky though. However, very enjoyable.
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