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Title
Mixed Doubles
Setter
Shackleton
Series
The Listener
Number
4339
Date
28/03/2015
Grid
13×13 carte blanche except for three blocked squares on the leading NW–SE diagonal.
Preamble
The grid has mirror symmetry about the main diagonal (marked by blocks). Individual clues for the across and down entry of each symmetrically located pair are presented in tandem (across always preceding down). Clue numbers give the horizontal/vertical distance of the entries' starting cells from the main diagonal; clues with the same number are listed in order of their across entries (top to bottom). In standard across order, the last letters of across clues spell out an instruction and first letters of the corresponding down clues give a phrase from a song. Each of four individual clues contains an extra word that must be removed before solving; the answers to these clues must be entered, in part, symbolically (numbers in brackets are entry lengths). Guided by these extra words, straight lines or circles must be drawn through six elements from the song (one less specific, one arguably more apposite than the original), and the phrase must be rendered by erasing everything except the lines and circles drawn, the symbols entered, and the results of applying the instruction.
The Chambers Dictionary
(2014) is the primary reference.
Solution Notes
Reveal Solution & Keywords
Acknowledgements
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The Times
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