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Cryptic Crossword: December 2002

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and the Concise Oxford Dictionary (COD) are recommended works of reference.

The letters in the perimeter, begining in the top left and reading clockwise, spell out a message to all solvers. A colloquial form of the third word of this message is 23.

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