I got the scrabble line but the rest bamboozled me!

So clever,so obscure.

A lot of frowning and growling followed by ........ OF COURSE!!!!!
Excellent grid, thanks!

Very, very good. I especially like the fact that for each of the groups you've put something in there as a giveaway - Brazzaville and Ironbridge, for example. Could easily have replaced those with something much harder, and you were right not to. One of the best I've played.

Really clever. I didn't get close but liked the answers.

Excellent and unusual grid! Had five attempts but only managed the Olympics connection!

couldn't get it but I was looking at Brazzaville and thinking scrabble

Got the scrabble and olympics , thought the others might be bridges or airports , the Ironbridge clue fooled me - nice

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Brilliant grid. I went down the bridges route too.

Excellent grid, got the Scrabble and Olympic ones quickly, should have guessed the Ironbridge one, and guessed the number of tube lines from Glasgow once the grid was resolved, but no idea how you got 36 lines in New York.

The lines are numbers plus letters from A to Z so 36 sounds plausible, but in fact the numbers only go to 7 and the letters are only ABCDEFG JLMNQRSWZ (S is debatable representing express services), so the answer should be 23.

i was trying bridges and airports (London 4, Glasgow 1)

The Scrabble one is unfair. You can only score that with 2 Z tiles in a game. 😳

There is only one z tile in scrabble.

Clever and intriguingo

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