Postcard - Solution
Hedge-sparrow’s holiday venue is THE BROADS in Norfolk where
he is ON A CRUISE (as confirmed by appropriate unscrambling of letters involved
in clashes). He is following a section
of the RIVER BURE from WROXHAM / HOVETON via HORNING to RANWORTH (place names
derived by unscrambling extra letter sequences in 4 clues), passing nine broads
on the way: WROXHAM (W), HOVETON GREAT (H), SALHOUSE (S), DECOY (D), BLACK
HORSE (B), BURNT FEN (B), COCKSHOOT (C), RANWORTH (R) and MALTHOUSE (M),
confirmed by reference to a map of The Broads.
On the way, he spots three well-known local residents - a MARSH HARRIER,
a SWALLOWTAIL, and a BITTERN.
Four clues include extra letter jumbles, each of which can
be arranged to give the name of a town: MAX WHO R = WROXHAM; R NIGH ON = HORNING; HOT OVEN = HOVETON; WAR HORN T =
RANWORTH. Solvers are
required to ring each town’s initial in the corresponding entry to indicate their
positions on the postcard map.
Extra letters removed from 35 clues (all those clues not
yielding either town names or clashing entries) give the message SHUFFLE
EXTRAS FROM CLUE PAIRS THAT CLASH: the nine pairs of across and down clues
leading to clashes contain extra words which must be “shuffled” to form the
name of a feature – a broad. For each of
these, solvers are required to enter the first initial of the name in the clash
cell in each case.
Also shown in the postcard are the course of the River Bure
(23 contiguous cells appearing as RIVER BURE RIVER BURE RIVER), and the names
of the three local residents.
Hedge-sparrow hopes that at least a few solvers took the opportunity to
emulate the beauty of The Broads through appropriate colouring of their postcard.
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