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Sunday Toughie 201 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 201

by Light

 

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

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A Light(ish) Toughie from Light, that took longer to blog than solve. A slightly uneven 14a and 16d clues today, and I have hinted at half. I hope you find the checkers to solve this fine puzzle. I will try and give a nudge or two if I can, but I am off to see Mumford & Sons tonight, so responses may be a bit late.

The featured image of the Matt Cartoon wouldn’t post where it belonged (as a hint to 1a) so I have left it there.

Mama Bee is nagging to go out for coffee so I will schedule this and talk to you later…

Here we go, Folks…

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Toughie 201

Toughie No 201 by Cephas
Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe

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Maybe it is something to do with seeing that black cat chasing a magpie while I was walking under a ladder yesterday. For whatever reason I seem to have been unlucky with the Toughie  today. We have a number of cryptic definitions, which, not to beat about the bush, are pretty woeful, and we have several clues where the word order has been manipulated to try to improve the surface reading.
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