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...but that doesn't work (and I've fallen foul of the brackets thing again!)

I parsed it as a &lit, with symbol being "SIGN", replacing I (one) with a musical note (E), adjoining O (end of echo)

Yes, that works much better. Not keen on the vague note = A to G, especially in a puzzle this hard, but one can't argue with the parsing. Thanks.

Yes, that's how I did it.

I often use square brackets for marking off unused letters - but things just disappear + italics spring up everywhere.

...my brackets 'technique' became necessary when the ban on caps came into force - nice to see them back!

Hello!

And help!!!! I've cold-solved quite a lot of the clues, but really don't know how to get going on the grid fill. I'm also struggling with 1a, so please could someone give me a hint for that? And perhaps also let me know which of its letter are joined together in a single cell? Maybe that'll be enough to allow me to understand how the grid fill works.

Thanks,
Suzannah

A 5 letter little furry animal is a 'black eye' and it follows 4 letters for 'back' (def is a bat) only the first, second and last letters are entered normally

Thanks ever so much , drxx! I had shiner in my head for black eye, and once it got in there, I just couldn't get past it. Now let's see if I can get moving on the grid fill...