The gin had a delayed reaction. Its effect didn't become felt until Valerie had, after a wearisome walk and numerouscheckings of her map, reached the flat.
One must reckon to solve at least three of the Playfair clues independently before cracking the code and gettingchecking to help with solving the fourth.
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What about the corpus of Ximenes - Azed specials? In 'Printer's Devilry'checking is normal but the clues are special.
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An added complication is that double definition answers are often very short, typically between four and six letters long, so there are lots of possibilities even when you havechecking letters.