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Compilers probably feel very pleased with themselves when they clue long quotations like this, but they make for very unsatisfactory crosswords, in my opinion. Does anyone ever work them out "bottom up"?

Just over 20 minutes - not what I expect from a Prize Puzzle. Very disappointing.

Fortunately it's a nice day, so I'll go out for a walk instead!

I agree with you chrise, I suddenly saw the answer but have not returned to the clue to parse it, rather defeats the intellectual challenge!

It's just an anagram of 8 wds in the clue making up 50 letters! Actually, tho' I was never a Paul fan, I thought that was quite clever, as the long clue more or less makes sense!
Chris: q. from an ignoramus --- What does "bottoms up" mean here?!
Supposedly you can get even a long one like this out of Universal Crossword Solver, but it hasn't worked for me yet (I'm too stupid to copy & paste still probably, despite your many efforts to teach me. We go by the book here & it produces nothing. Would be useful next time, though ---instead of first wondering whether it's Karl or Groucho etc).

I think the trick [if indeed there is a trick for anagrams] is knowing which word to omit - in this case 'and'.

I got it late last night/this morning and have checked the anagram solver I use and it is there.

That's true, mamya, I realized; but is there a machine somewhere on the net where you can enter the letters you have (with word divisions) to produce the same result? The one I've been recommended just doesn't seem to work. In fact not only that, it throws out word lengths which have nothing to do with what I put in --- and I'm following their instructions exactly! What on earth ca

That's true, mamya, I realized; but is there a machine somewhere on the net where you can enter the letters you have (with word divisions) to produce the same result? The one I've been recommended just doesn't seem to work. In fact not only that, it throws out word lengths which have nothing to do with what I put in --- and I'm following their instructions exactly! What on earth ca

(sorry) can be wrong? I'm surprised such a possibility exists at all for such extremely long solutions!

Try here

I entered

duoiffyhabitualadulationuoddubiousmythologiesdiedaway

https://www.crosswordsolver.org/anagram-solver/iffyhabitualadulationuoddubiousmythologiesdiedaway

I don't like the anagram solvers that give you word counts - I find they give nonsensical jumbled up phrases. Maybe I am using the wrong ones but I manage.