Enigmatic Variations No.1191 – Briefing Received by Gaston

Prior to this puzzle, there have been a couple of weeks where the EVs had misspellings in the clues’ definitions, which I tend to find rather hard.  I’m therefore heartened to see in the preamble that this one has extra letters in the wordplay.  There’s some highlighting too, which can sometimes give the puzzled puzzler an extra hint.

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Guardian Prize 26,681 by Paul

A most entertaining crossword that I found very difficult.  Usually I solve Paul’s puzzles much more quickly than I did this one.  Was it just me having a bad day or did other people think this was hard too?

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