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Voici the answers. Although I'm unclear on the reasoning behind BIJOUX http://www.bit.ly/bzqc8S

a junction less cannot gives you "jui" which gives the anag with box ... I think

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/prize/24999

2D Punctuation expert offers support (5)

Possibly obvious to everyone else - can anyone explain why this is "truss" - support obviously, but how does punctuation expert work?

Hi ixion

Lynne Truss - a writer & broadcaster, think she might have worked for the Guardian at some point wrote a book about punctuation called Eats, Shoots & Leaves" which was something of a best-seller a few years ago.
It's quite funny in parts!

Ah - Thanks Jack!

What about (in the Guardian 24,999) 8d?

I seem to have -i-o-x but can't come up with a word. The clue is, "Trinkets cannot possibly produce a junction box."

Read the previous postings on this thread

I came spontaneously back to write that I realised that the answere had already been posted to 8d - as i was engaged elsewhere, teh word bijoux came to my slow-moving brain and realisation dawned.
It may be that a gnat is wandering about memory-less just now, as I appear to have its recall..Thanks to Epipnoia and the other poster..

Thanks, Ixion. That was rather bugging me.