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DT Vintage 20

Daily Telegraph Vintage No 20
Hints and Tips by Deansleigh

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

Good afternoon from South Hampshire, where it’s somewhat cooler than yesterday.  Many thanks to Rossophile for blazing the trail for the volunteer vintage puzzle bloggers, and to Gazza for allowing me to try my hand at this one.

I found this to be a baptism of fire!  I didn’t manage to solve the first clue straightaway, and soon came unstuck.  As the DT preamble states, you really have to solve 1a first, but once you’ve done that, things should start to fall into place.

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