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...though the Treacle Well sister in Alice comes a close second - or even a dead heat!

Drxx - I'm old enough to remember listening to them on 'Worker's Playtime' - so it was obvious.

My memory was all wiki (apart from my first thought - was pussy just one of a litter?).

I've given up on the paintbrush bit and will find a coin and use tails=left and heads=right

Or try looking for two new words reading right to left (ignoring what's been brushed).

gitto - if you remove the columns, one route leaves real words (including two backwards) and the other leaves gobbledygook

There's a song by the sex pistols called "oh you silly thing", and up to today I never realised it was about me!! I never cottoned on to the fact that she, the wife of arcadia, may have altered the positioning of two key words!

I made my way through this one better than I expected given my terror at the start, but I'm still not completely certain about the paintbrush bit at the end. I think I know where it must be, my only reservation being around there being exactly "two reversed" words. I can find ways to reverse different numbers of words and maintain integrity of the grid, depending on what counts as a word versus abbreviation etc. in Chambers--I was hoping it would end up being completely unambiguous. Does this sound familiar to others?

I may have got this wrong but I didn't actually change/reverse anything. The words just read right to left.

(I don't think that right to left is giving too much away as it's columns that are painted).

Oops, yes, I did mean "read in reverse" rather than "rewrite in reverse" but my lack of certainty stands with respect to the number of words to which this applies!