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Title The Red-Headed League
Setter Arcturus
Series Magpie
Number Issue 31, no. 2
Date Jun 2005
"More A Grade Puzzles" Implore Editors
DifficultyB
Grid 14×14 barred grid with 180° symmetry, but omitting twelve squares in each corner.
Preamble "We have twice been deceived by wigs and once by paint." All the down answers are disguised by a misprint in the grid (always becoming real words), collectively forming "The Red-headed League". But this is just a cover for more sinister goings-on. Holmes identifies a start and end point (two clue answers) and deduces what might connect them; solvers must highlight the fifteen squares involved.
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