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Crossword 344: The First Noel

Kate Greenaway, Christmas Card
Kate Greenaway, Christmas Card

Attentive solvers will recall that, 183 crosswords ago, I posted a puzzle called “Noels” (see Crossword 161), so this puzzle is not, they will suppose, my first “noel.”  In fact, however, this is the prequel to Crossword 161, the second part of a projected “noel” trilogy, which will in turn form the first part of a trilogy of trilogies all exploring my “noel” universe, and all of which should appear, if not by the end of the century, early in the next.  So stay tuned!


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