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(That was a reply to chrise re the long one)

Hi rogissimo
I'm amazed that you bothered to work it out! I bet you didn't get the answer from the anagram...

Got the book off the shelf and looked up the very famous opening line.

You bet correctly, and I didn’t bother until I saw your post and thought I might as well. I still didn’t bother to check that all the letters are present and correct - just did a numeration check and speed-checked the letters. Life’s too short.

Likewise can't be bothered parsing 25ac etc.

Can I have a clue to 1ac please

no idea of the parsing, but the solution is obvious from the definition - if you have 9 and 19, that is

Oh no. How obvious thanks

Remove spy from cyberspace then shuffle.

seen the parsing - it's a subtractive anagram