(Apologies for the late post – solved the puzzle earlier today, and forgot to write the blog!!)

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Something of a rarity for me: a Virgilius puzzle I didn’t enjoy all that much. I got the three thematic clues fairly quickly, probably because they’re not all that cryptic and I knew the quote from Shaw; I did think briefly that the puzzle would make use of US and British words for the same thing (e.g PAVEMENT/SIDEWALK, TAP/FAUCET) but it quickly became apparent that this wasn’t the case, although many of the clues mention variations on 13A and 20A. Read the rest of this entry »