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The clues...
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The theme...

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Well, if the clues are anything to go by, this should be right up my street (legal)!

I'm a great fan, but feel that my own version of an X would be even less convincing than that which accompanies X itself.

Would a do?

The stuff I typed in 4 didn't appear. So let's try again.

Would the 1st and 4th of 29A and the 2nd and 3rd of 30D do?

Thank you Twin - one of our favourites.
Agree with Cockie, those would suffice.
Otherwise, we’d be worried that Big Tech or the Chinese were harvesting data!

It wouldn't do for me.

Drxx. Know what you mean. Not as a submission, just what the letters spell out. Assuming Cockie was going to provide an “X”
Should be an easy week for John Green then!

It's a rare opportunity for the creatives - and the bar hasn't been set very high, so why not have a go? And we've already got a decent surface to hand (his 4th - side 2, track 2}.

Drxx - prefer the Bootleg one, but still a low bar, under which we could still limbo!