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Crossword 314: Stag Party

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Monarch of the Glen
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Monarch of the Glen

This puzzle should not be taken as an endorsement of those tasteless social events from which women are excluded (except as performers).  In fact I find the idea of “stag parties” in that sense distinctly disagreeable.  But if forest creatures wish to gather for their own festive purposes, I do not feel that I, from my necessarily anthropocentric subject position, have any right to condemn them.


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