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Special Instructions: A surrounding idiom may be said about someone making 9d

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Vanilla

Terrific puzzle! Got 9d first and ended up solving the idiom part halfway through the solve. Faves include 12a, 14a, 15a, 4d, and 16d

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Kateh

In contrast to Vanilla, 9d was LOI, although I did get the Nina early enough for it to help with a few holdouts. Faves included 1a,14a,20a,25a,4d,5d,16d. Thanks for reliably starting the week off well!

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Ozpiper

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat the crowd to a Gennaro special! Usual high quality, sprinkled with mischief. Particularly appreciated 6a, 14a (!), 2d, 4d and of course 16d! By no means a pushover - 5d was nho for me, and a few solved before fully parsing wordplay but that's all part of the fun. Nina helped crack the last few. No raised eyebrows for me today. A good lunchtime diversion, so now back to work (yes, even when one is retired...)

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Pentman

Thanks Gennaro. That was very accessible. Despite being unfamiliar with 5d ,it was gettable from the WP. I took a while for me to parse 20a, again not being familiar with the rapper. Favourites include 8d, 7a, 19a, 16d...

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Boznut

Took me a while this one and I found it quite tough with a few NHO's I had to reveal (I won't embarass myself by telling you what they were!). I also learnt the abbreviation for Iceland. Some quirky surfaces, tricky yet fair constructions. Nice nina/idiom. Thanks Gennaro for another great, yet tricky start to the week.