Perhaps you agonized over Neophyte’s creation in the First Series.
Here’s its mate. Neophyte, being a hardened veteran of the cryptic art,
must have heard the groans from the breasts of puzzlers poring over his
brain buster. And he gloated and went at his fell work again. However,
this one is a little easier than the other.
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