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mrobo - is that a typo? I have four instances of the highest score split evenly.

sorry for the misspelling rrrobbo.

Ooooo. I must be missing one. Been a tough day on the eyes. I’ll check tomorrow when the Southern Comfort has worn off. My grid looks like the wrong sort of artillery has been used too. Couldn’t find a pencil when I started......

Rrrobbo - I think you missed either clue 4 or 16 in your calculations. The hundreds, tens and units are good....

I have spent a bit of time trying to resolve the ambiguity of 16 locations of interupting letters and I may have come up with a solution.
Firstly I assumed that “interupting letters” in the penultimate sentence of the preamble referred to all instances of the particular letter that does the interupting, not just those instances that actually interrupted a ring entry - so the centre letter can be counted.
I think you have to assume that “location” refers to a specific place on the page so it is not logical to count 2 or more uses of the same location as separate locations.
I think “16 in all” means 16 separate locations of the letter rather than 16 scores. Indeed I have 17 scoring entries.
I have 12 instances of the letter in the rings and one in the centre. I also have three radials with no use of the letter (7, 8 and 20). I assume these shots missed the target and scored zero. So all I needed to do was to write the letter in three random locations outside the target (outside the outer ring) and I now have 12 + 1 + 3 = 16 locations.
A bit convoluted but the only way I can make it work.
Or 16 might be a typo.......

Still grappling this one. Even with all your helpful posts I am only just out of the stalls.

Am not sure I understand buzzb at post 61. Do you mean to refer to ring 3, clue 1?

This is a toughie and I'm wondering if my clues are misprinted! Thanks

Ah yes. I was missing the extra for 16 having had a 6 letter word beginning in. I had forgotten to go back to it after finding the bitumen. So, now I have 17 hits. Still works for me though. 16 occurrences of the interrupting letter but 17 hits. Cheeky Phi 8-). Now. Those scores must mean something......perhaps it’s Phis telephone number 8-).

Hi Piffleworthy. Not sure what was meant previously but 3,1 is 4 letters with one letter in 3 other running in alphabetic order. It’s not a word I had heard of. Well, I have ‘heard’ of it, but not spelt thus or with said meaning.

But the only way you can get 16 is to count the single O in the centre 4 times and the single O in ring 6 once. But what would be the logic for treating these two cells so differently? Either there should be 4 Os in the middle and 2 in ring 6, or one in each. To treat one one way and one the other with no instructions that this is what you should do makes no sense.

I see it that ring 6 clearly shares answers but has 2 shots whereas the centre does not share answers. Plenty of room in the middle to be separated too. If they weren’t separated, logic suggests all answers should have 7 letters. I personally feel that the final answer only works one way regardless of all the speculation and I would have no leniency as a judge.