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Title Philoloy
Setter The Ace of Hearts
Series Magpie
Number Issue 183, no. 4
Date Mar 2018
Marvellous Achievement Generating Pair Involving Eclipse
[Reference to Chalicea’s A Matter of Course and Ifor’s A Matter of Course in Issue 181]
DifficultyB
Grid 13×13 barred grid with 180° symmetry. Four entries are highlighted.
Preamble Answers to the four asterisked normal clues must be Playfair-encoded before entry into the highlighted cells. From the answer to every other clue, a letter must be deleted wherever it appears before entry. Definitions refer to the full unmutilated answer, wordplay and numbers in brackets to the grid entry. In clue order, the omitted letters give a definition of the Playfair keyword.
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