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...and I'd be very surprised if Malone and itsme didn't do the same (unless my curiosity is untypical, of course).

Many thanks for your collective wisdom gentlemen - mind you without the Pearson nudge I think I'd still be adrift.

Vinsculler

Vinsculler, I agree, I had to chew my pencil for some time - it was quite a toughie. My penny dropped when I figured out the first word of 1A, then it all fell into place.

An interesting puzzle in retrospect, nice to get a challenge I thought.

I agree, kt17 - it's nice to get a puzzle that can be completed without having to look outside of the puzzle itself, but still leaves a bit of work at the very end. And if I'd had more faith in my first guess at the 'phenomenon', I could have avoided google altogether (because that word is in the ODQ index, and does link to the quote).

However, I'm still not convinced that the 4 examples we're given are what groups them together in ODQ - they're ones that never were, rather than erroneous ones (well, I think they are - but that's not meant to distract from a fine puzzle).

Drxx, thanks for some interesting comments.

Until tonight, I didn't know the quotation itself. I think I ignored the 'phenomenon' stuff and simply concentrated on filling in the blanks! There was a lot of info given for the thematic entries (and there being only four meant that wasn't too tricky), so I worked those all out- and did the same for 41, 1 and 10.

I don't think I was not 'curious', I was just pleased to get this all finished in one go - and then went off to tackle another crossword!

I was guessing you'd have got around to it at some point, malone - I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be doing these things if we weren't driven by curiousity (possibly to a greater extent than is 'normal').

...curiosity, even.

Can somebody explain the thinking behind 16ac? I have the answer, guess mob=criminals but cannot see the rest. Thanks!

UTU is Maori 'vengence'.

sorry (again) 'vengeance' - it's not my day!