Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26977

Hints and tips by Gazza

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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***

If today had not been a Friday I would have been hard pressed to identify this as a Giovanni puzzle. It consists of four long anagrams with most of the other clues being relatively easy. I’m not a fan of long anagrams – I almost invariably get the answer from the definition, enumeration and a few checking letters then work backwards to identify the fodder. I’d be interested to know how other solvers work.