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Crossword 268: I Don’t Like Your Tone!

William Maw Egley, Music Hath Charms
William Maw Egley, Music Hath Charms

I don’t mean your tone, gentle solver!  Studies have shown a strong positive correlation between appreciation for inventive, humorous wordplay, artistic gridding, fair but challenging clues, and all-around cruciverbal quality on the one hand, and a pleasing tone on the other.  I’m referring to everybody else’s tone.

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