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Thanks to all who took part in this week’s challenge.

We have a clear winner with 4 votes, PaulH’s perhaps prescient …

Upset for the old men back in opposition (5)

Congratulations Paul…

“EN” and “EM” got me thinking about old printing techniques, so the first prize relates to just that… https://youtu.be/Q1xKcRrn_i4

And then we have “N” “M” and “E” https://youtu.be/S9InKRQbC4I

Congrats PaulH. Thanks jono, and thanks geeker for the vote.

The first clip reminded me of when we were in Antwerp. We were going to visit the Plantin-Moretus printing museum:
https://museumplantinmoretus.be/en/content/about-museum?gclid=CjwKCAjwkLCkBhA9EiwAka9QRiTRGa8jubtYFQE15vJO_qFY7k4VP8aXe6cgvgTUPIJ5jrEI4SdXdxoCAWsQAvD_BwE
We got yhere about midday and discussed whether to have lunch or do the museum first. When we came out at about 4 p.m., we wondered where we could still find lunch! (though we did in fact have a great meal in a modernist building on the Scheldt, which, from the outside, looked like it would just serve pizzas...)

Another good one Paulh - well done! Thanks to you and Chrise for votes and Jono for hosting.

Thanks for the votes, my good peers. I was regretting having inserted the perhaps unnecessary 'for' in my clue.

Thanks for setting, Jono, and for the interesting clips. Perhaps I am not alone in finding the virtual prizes harder to decide upon than the ideas for clues. Anyway, I have to think of some in the next few days, starting with the Weekend Peer Review later this evening.

PaulH, sometimes I start with the clips and work backwards! On this occasion, Mattrom had used EN and EM in consecutive challenges and we had a short exchange about their use, so I thought I would combine them. I nearly set TENEMENT but the definitions were limited :-)

…bonus challenge for anyone who can come up with a clue for TENEMENT that uses the “en em en” inside tt construction!

Nice, paulh. Thanks, jono.

Good one Paul! Cheers Jon