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So how did you apply the 8 6 exactly?. richardellis@hotmail.com

I'll send you a mail, Ricky.

I finally got the endgame after much befuddlement. My mistake was looking at what remained from using the down set example (8,6) on the across set. I thought the three examples would be found there.

Thanks loge

Perhaps I need to look at what is taken out?

23D rather confusing me, does "posho" just mean "posh", as opposed to the Collins definition?

The ‘O’ makes it a noun, rather than an adjective.

Thanks HW, "posho" not a term I've come across, sounds very, well posh : )

That was excellent fun. Thank you, Charydis. For what it’s worth (not much, I admit!) I read the last step in the preamble - and particularly the bit in brackets - as meaning that the final stage would resolve any lingering anxiety about the brief, and temporary, appearance of non-words in the preceding stage.

Blimey! Another endgame that was beginning to do my 11a in…

I thought there was an "extra letter" in 29dn, giving a Down Clues phrase of 8,6,1. Since this "extra letter" could be found in the 6 of the completed grid, I thought for a long time that 8 meant this cell should be left blank. Then I tried to replacing 27 with INSANITY which gives real words… but, as someone famously almost once said, "There issa no INSANITY clause!"

Even after being put right by all the helpful hints from you guys and completing the puzzle, I still can't see a synonym of 8 in Chambers that isn't the opposite of what is required!

Roll on next weekend.