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planks - I made it ten and six.....

planks - you're right. I just understood radial 1 at last.

thanks wakeling

I think that for consistency with what's going on in the centre cell, there really should be 17 not 16 with 2 occurrences in another cell.

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Thanks s_pugh for earlier confirmation. I'm slowly getting into it now.

I agree with buzzb but I don't believe it's necessary to duplicate anything - both answers have to hit the same mark, so both answers must count (17 scores but 16 interruptions).

I'm confused. There are 12 interruptions. The 4 occurences in the centre are not interruptions as there are no answers in the seventh ring to interrupt. What am i missing or am i being overly pedantic?

Horribly ambiguous. I presume the central letter must be entered multiple times to give the required total of 16, but I’m totally unclear as to whether to count the shared entry once or twice; by rights in must surely be counted twice, but this is all very vague, and totally unfair.

Monkjunk - Only one letter interrupts and there are 16 of them in the grid.
I think that just about works in the preamble - '...locations of the interrupting letters' rather than just 'interruptions'.

Candlestick - I think it's a Robin Hood moment (if you're old enough to get the reference).

A dumb question from a feeble minded solver - do all answers to radials start/end at ring 1 or can they do so at any point along the radius? (It isn't clear to me from the preamble). I seem to remember a previous circular puzzle (No. 4498) where this was the case...
I'm finding the large amount of cold solving disheartening...