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[Potential Solution]

Just a couple of thoughts to throw into the mix.

What if “toll” has something to do with bells?

A Hospital is a place where people presumably “stay”..

Potential Solution

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Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan

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I think 1 down is a different kind of pasta.

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CREEPY

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OH FUCK YOU MANDLE! I knew it!!! 

Well done Kastchey for getting that. And good work I am a loser. Destroy fits The clue much better than Justice.

My head just exploded tomorrow.

That’s assuming we have the right answers. I mean ‘hate’ was simply the first negative adjective ending in an E that came to my mind. If the real answer begins with a vowel we might have more to go on.  And again, there’s no guarantee that Leeches is correct, but it feels right.

As for 7 down. I can only think of one word that fits:

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CONSECRATED

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It doesn’t fit our current thinking that the Killer thinks the system is broken or corrupt. Perhaps, rather, he views the court as a holy, sacred institution.

Of course, we could be barking up the wrong tree that it ends in ED, so we should look at other ideas.

You can keep all your fancy stuff. This hit's the spot every time 

Cooooor. This is what I miss most from UK

8 across:

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Justice

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Yes. This has to be it. I was thinking more specific things like CASTRATE, but couldn’t quite get anything to fit.

As far as I’m concerned we only need 9 across 7 down . 11 down might be something different, but we’ll soon realise if it is.

Also, I said previously that ‘pasta’ was a unrelated to the case. But I know Mandle better than that. This is probably a clue. And serial killers often take a ‘trofie’ from their kills, albeit spelt differently.

I am a loser. Aha yes. I was trying to find a word that fit the letters we already had for 9 across. And your suggestion is indeed...

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INGENIOUS

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Also I think you might be right about 3 across.

mkennedy - I also think you are right about 4 down.

CaptainD - I think there is a high chance 7 down ends with ED because it needs the E of 12 Across, and ED is a common way to form an adjective out of verbs.


If 1 Down is (as suggested by Lorenzo):

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TROFIE

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Then 2 Across could be:

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LIARS

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I had been working on the idea that the solution was a 12-letter word made up of all the numbered squares in the crossword. When I said in a previous post that I thought I had solved it, I was thinking Murray Hill. But I have since actually bothered to count the letters in that name and there are only ten, so I was wrong. But I still think that might be how we get to a solution

Test and trace is what they (‘they’ being the NHS and UK authorities) call the system in place for “testing” for positive cases of covid-19 and “tracing” people who they might have been in contact with. Nobody is “tracking” anybody. Yet last night #TrackandTrace was trending on Twitter because nobody stops to check that they are using the right terminology.

“Track and Trace”

NO! It’s not called Track-and-Bloody-Trace! It’s “Test and Trace”! A different thing entirely. If one more IDIOT calls it Track and Trace, unless you’ve just entered a 12-digit string into a box on the Royal Mail website, I swear I’m going to go postal.

Keep up the good work chaps.

I have some suggestions for the crossword clues:

5 down

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MONSTROUS (clearly an anagram as the clue as no relation to the other clues)

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10 down

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ILL

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11 down

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HATE

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12 across

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LEECHES

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(I also think I might have the solution already but I want to do more of the  crossword first)

Also, Mandle, would Googling types of pasta go against the honour system? I can’t think of any with 6 letters.

A Golden Wake has one or two little arcade-ish  sequences. Notably this scene where you are trying to grab this plane’s rope-ladder from a moving car.

If the answer we’re looking for is simply a location, then surely Laura has solved it. Unless we need to ‘step to the left’ (or East) on the map, which would take us to Forest Park.

Are we still supposed to be guessing motives and stuff?

Oh man. Munchies in Newcastle Upon Tyne does a magic kebab pizza which I strongly believe was linked to the chest pains I suffered from in uni.

Since there are 8 lines of text in the code, does that represent 8 murders?

I read it as being a clue for the first kill only, but I might be wrong.

[Pride and Relatives]

The votes have been counted (which didn’t take long ) and the winner is Pride and Relatives

Well done IntenseDegree. That’s two out of two wins. I’ll be in touch soon about choosing a topic for July.

Last chance to vote, guys.

Oh shit. This is cool.

get on the boat?

Yeah this slipped under my radar too. Looks great. All the best.