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Title Drowning by Letters
Setter Arcturus
Series Magpie
Number Issue 23, no. 2
Date Oct 2004
Pieman Is Excellent
[Spoof departure of Mr Magoo … magazine renamed The Pie for one issue]
DifficultyB
Grid 14×11 barred grid with almost 180° symmetry.
Preamble Twelve across answers must be entered using a thematic code. The six remaining across answers are relevant to the theme and are clued using wordplay only.
Solution Notes
(Hide Solution)		The row reading across the grid from 20ac gives A SIGHTLESS SONG for clue answers THE & LARK. Solvers are thus pointed to two lines from Tennyson's In Memoriam:
"And drown'd in yonder living blue
The lark becomes a sightless song."
Unclued answers are thus types of blue and remaining across answers encoded by T->AS, H->IG, E->HT etc.
KeywordsA SIGHTLESS SONG Alfred Lord Tennyson In Memoriam And drownd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song difficulty-B grade-B
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