Puzzle Notes

Hi all,

We're back with another lovely cryptic, this time from Liam Hughes. As his note below mentions, this is his debut puzzle - of any kind, anywhere! If the quality of even his first draft is anything to speak of, I'd expect to see his byline more often in the future. For now, enjoy seeing how his brain works in this super fun cryptic.

More on the constructor, from the constructor:

Liam is a mathematician who lives in Helsinki, where he's quixotically trying to learn Finnish through cryptics. This has been an exciting month for him, partly because he just started organ lessons, and partly because this is his first published puzzle of any kind ' thanks to the test solvers and especially to Nate for the helpful feedback and thoughtful editing!

Enjoy!
Nate + the AVCX Cryptics team

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