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Title Rum Journey
Setter Aragon
Series The Listener
Number 3470
Date 11/07/1998
Grid 12×12 barred chequerboard pattern grid with 180° symmetry.
Preamble Subsidiary indications in across and down clues lead to one-letter misprinted versions of the actual answers. These misprinted letters, read in clue order, give two phrases: the first, of six words, describes how the journey was made and also, cryptically, what the route's maker (7,8) might lead to . The second phrase gives two of the traveller's other forerunners. "Traveller" clues are listed in order, from top to bottom. Their answers should be entered – initially unaltered – in a certain way, suggested by their one common letter and square. This letter also provides a clue to the starting point of each. The location (geographically appropriate) of the common square is to be deduced and displayed. Initial letters of the "Traveller" answers should then be decoded to reveal the name of the traveller, a process which will remove any temporary misprints from the grid. Solvers should delineate this name, the destination and when the journey took place on the already appropriately marked squares (covering 27 in all). Punctuation may occasionally mislead.
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