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SPURTLE PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

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The 24 solutions to our puzzle were all solvable by visiting the Great Hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

 

The image accompanying the clues (right) was our modern take on the figure of Caledonia (below), painted (like everyone else here) in c.1897 by the artist William Brassey Hole for his processional frieze.

 

Hence our subhead ‘Whole greater than parts’.

 

POWDERHALL UPDATE

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The story shown below appears in the March Spurtle (Issue 359).

 

We contacted CCG for comment on 19 February. Their response arrived just after the paper had gone to press 5 days later.

 

In CCG’s reply on 24 February, a named representative of the company acknowledged human error as the reason for the 2-month delay in registering CCG as a Considerate Constructor at the Powderhall site.

 

ISSUE 359 — OUT SOON!

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As you read this, advance copies of the March Spurtle are already spreading across the barony like potholes fleeing a Council roadmender in advance of the budget deadline.

 

Issue 359 starts with news of an appeal, continues with calls for better signage, and concludes with a dodo and voters on floaters.

 

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