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btw is anyone still receiving Hugh's monthly emails? I used to get them but no more - and my spam filter lets everything else through ... used to enjoy hearing that someone in Australia had got in first, before it was published here. (I even think I submitted first one month ...) And has anyone ever won this mythical prize? - which I imagine is suspended for the moment.

Thanks. All finished now. But I cannot parse 24D. There's only one thing it could be though.

Prospero, I haven't received one for years - and the last editor's blog was in July 2018. Am I right in inferring you're a setter for the Guardian, based on one of your previous posts?

24d - first 4 words = definition. Next four give you 2 central letters surrounded by (provides cover) German (serving double purpose) for also.

no, loge - i wish ... all I seem to write these days (apart from my blog - gordonmcdougall.blogspot.com - is obituaries. And sadly at my age they come thick and fast ...

Know what you mean Prospero - many of the obits I read are of people I think of as my generation!

Thanks, Prospero, for 24D. My German's not too good ...

Splendid crossword. Thank you Mr Soup!

Great fun and enjoyably taxing, particularly when having to “reverse engineer” some of the transforms. Only one genuine puzzle remains. Pendragon @28: why does “her” introduce “a gender element” when, presumably, “his” would not?

I forgot to mention, Prospero, that we have won twice