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Thanks again jazzgirl. Didn't know the 2 letter abbreviation. Finally done. Enjoyed it. Thanks to Ace of Hearts

@mullingar. 2- letter abbrev. I found in Chambers

Saw it there Jazzgirl. Is the title interesting? I can see a synonym for the second word which would be thematic - still a little puzzled by the first word though

Oh, that was clever, TAoH! While solving, I kept cursing the (elsewhere here described as “irregular”) spacing because of the obvious difficulties it caused. It just seemed so fiddly. But once the penny dropped, it simply had to be thus.

I've enjoyed this. Hard work, especially the jumbles.
So I still have three of those to complete. 7, 12 and 19. Any hints welcome. 12 looks like it should be easy! No idea what to do with 7 and 19. Of course I have 5 letters already in each jumble.

@lumen. I can only help with 12. Have you removed one letter? . The classical beauty is from Troy but needs one letter moved .

Thanks, I now have answer for 12. But no idea where first two letters come from. Second part of queene? In what way!

2nd letter of Queene is first letter of answer. The last letter of beauty is moved to 2nd but I cannot help with jumble

Have now completed the puzzle with thanks to all who helped by posting above - particularly jazzgirl. This one was about my stretch level and thoroughly enjoyable. One of our daughters-in-law is an expert with a needle so I will send it to her.

Norah: if there was an ever an example of a thread working as it should, this is it. Please continue to see off the fundamentalists.

(Having said this, I still can't work out the connection with the title!)

Well done to those who have completed. I am too far away from completing as jumbles are giving me headache :) No idea of how the title works