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Crossword 243: Downplay

Edward Robert Hughes, Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie)
Edward Robert Hughes, Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie)

I give you fair warning:  the Downs in this puzzle (at least the themed ones) are all Across.  Now that’s just the kind of startling, long-overdue innovation you’ve come to expect of my puzzles; but, like most wonderful things, it comes at some risk:  if you’re subject to vertigo, you might want to solve the puzzle while lying on your side.


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