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Wishing all of you and yours a happy, safe, and productive 2026. Lords knows I’ve got too much on my “to do list.” I’d say I’m already behind, but that’s a bit assholish. Resolutions? I’ve got a few. One word: scaling. Sorry to be cryptic. I could be talking about rock climbing, or business. Could be both! Anyway, watch this space.

And while I’m here, thank you so much for your continued support. And thanks to all who were able to chip in last month. Please, don’t hesitate to get in touch if you never got your bonus puzzles. As promised, one randomly selected donor will recieve a book of mine, and that randomly selected person is the tastefully-named Brenda Rose. Congrats, Brenda. Sort of on topic, I’m on somebody’s mailing list, so I get a lot of junk mail (who doesn’t?), but whoever entered my name on their list, I went in as “Brenda N. Quigley.” Good times!

Today’s puzzle is one that ran in the AVCX last month. Francis Heaney et al. were kind enough to let me post it here, so, please, if you liked this puzzle, I strongly urge you to join in the fun. I test solve all their cryptics and they’re among the very best in North America. Dig in.

Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.

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