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Jeg - I think the rubric wasn't very well worded!

Amazed to find jeg in the winners list!

The preamble suggests that we are to discover "a" keyword, so how do the three different 4-letter words that can follow each word in a triplet contribute to finding a single keyword (or is that the badly worded part)?

The title further suggests some relation to chemical elements, which I can't relate to the 3 words.

Hi buddy,
the keyword when added to each triplet can also precede the relevant 4-letter word.
The element suggested by the title when preceding the keyword is "topical" as per the preamble.

Aha, Not so topical here in the US. I suspect plenty of the weekend puzzles will be similarly themed.

Thanks

A smartly dressed cyclist might be wearing a ?I? C??? and a pair of ?O? C???s. Am I missing something?

Yes they both appear valid and the I/O is unchecked. Google gives 4,420,000 results for the former, and 1,290,000 for the latter. So I vote for wisdom of the crowd.