The recent cryptic by Maskarade was very enjoyable and obviously was a monumental effort both in compiling and solving! I noticed the odd moan in all the posts but to come up with a puzzle of this quality after all the magnificent efforts of the late lamented Araucaria, was, indeed, a sterling effort. The only thing which spoiled it for most people was the misprint for the amount of letters in the "B" solutions - that certainly threw me for awhile, anyway! So printers errata aside, well done Maskarade!