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Any help with the scissor work please

Still at your stage Scarlett. Anyone help?

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Really frustrated to still be at the same stage. A really quick grid fill , followed by hours of fiddling with the cutouts, to no effect. I would also appreciate a nudge. I'm guessing the phrase will appear in the top row, but that might be a little premature.

There is a diagonal SW to NE which is 8 cells in length. But I can't see what to do with it. Got no where with the jigsaw part. Maybe some pieces (3 of them?) need to be rotated.

Nni, I think you're on to something. Take the whole diagonal and add the same letter. I've only managed 6 rather than the seven asked for. Then Google the phrase and a name should come up. I've managed to arrange the cutouts into her name and an anagram of her profession in a 5 X 5 square. Just bothered by the 6 additions rather than 7 now.

antmark... sorry for being slow...but what do you mean "add the same letter" to that diagonal?

The profession appears normally, not as an anagram. Also not all of the pieces are necessarily the way up that you might expect.

If I take 8 letters along that diagonal I get ON THE EAH, but I cannot see which letter(s) I have got wrong. And I'm afraid I don't understand what adding the same letter at the end means.

I mean the same letter several times. Sorry for not being clearer. A bit tongue-tied perhaps?