Toughie No 654 by Elgar
Parlez-Vous Franglais?
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
Tilsit has been dragged from the drainpipe in which he was hiding after being shot at by NATO warplanes and detained somewhere in the desert, so you’ve got me again! The hardest part of this puzzle was unravelling some of the wordplay, which was not helped by the error in the published clue for 14a/16a.