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Toughie 878

Toughie No 878 by Notabilis

The Twang’s the Thang!

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BD Rating – Difficulty ****Enjoyment *****

Greetings from the Calder Valley! One of my favourite setters is here today and as usual we have a high quality and stiff test for the Friday slot. Lots of great quality clues that demonstrate a setter right at the top of his game and caused plenty of head scratching. I spent quite some time staring at a blank grid before things started to materialise and fall into place.

I would happily nominate 24 down as one of the best clues I have seen this year.

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