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muraria

19th April 2020, 16:06
Yes indeed....
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nelson

19th April 2020, 16:30
Brendan - maybe you've come up with the answer we all want. Plenty of Omega-3 fatty acids. I'm going to give it a try until the government comes up with anything better.
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brendan

19th April 2020, 16:35
Thanks guys. It's a good job I don't submit these, can you imagine the laughter of the crossword checkers!? Anyway, I'm off to bait some hooks - these fish don't catch themselves:-)
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lumen

20th April 2020, 09:59
Hi all. Fairly easy grid fill, only struggled with 44 and 46a.
Solved message and followed both instructions.
I see ‘what we need’, but like granama1 back at posts 22 and 23, I’m not sure why we do the second instruction or how to ‘avoid what we don’t want’?
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drxx

20th April 2020, 11:21
I'm not sure what you mean, lumen, but to achieve what the diagonal calls for, the '????' must be .... and by barring off the letter that represents the '????' each time, we achieve the desired result.
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brendan

20th April 2020, 11:22
Hi Lumen,

I'm not sure what you mean, but isn't "what we don't want to see" what the two words spell before the two letters are changed? - a self.... nati.....
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brendan

20th April 2020, 11:23
Hi Drxx, I promise I haven't got a spycam in your home:-)
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drxx

20th April 2020, 11:24
...and if we don't change the two letters in the diagonal, we remain a S?????? N?????.
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drxx

20th April 2020, 11:26
It looks like I might have one in yours, brendan!
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lumen

20th April 2020, 12:21
Cheers. I was studying the columns with the added bars.
I didn’t spot the original diagonal.
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