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Clue 8 down- The most fundamental education achieved initially by Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov (3,5,2)
The / _ h _ e _ / r _

The Three Rs. Reading, (w)riting, (a)rithmetic. The basics of education, and his initials.

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And as the impoverished protagonist in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, RRR receives the most basic of educations. So the clue works rather nicely.

What is INTO by the way?

It’s one of my three all-time favourite novels, jono. Last week (Alexander) Nevsky appeared as an answer in the Listener, and I was immediately taken back to Nevsky Prospect, aka St Petersburg High Street

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