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Brendan, I take it you don’t follow my clue writing here - most of them are prefaced with 'BBC' (where’s the irony smiley). The Viz has a 'put my foot through the TV' letter in nearly every issue.

Indeed, to be young again - Pretty Vacant is one of my favourites

Sorry Raffles, I did know you were joking and that was clear in the first iteration of my reply but, as many here know, I'm a terrible tinkerer and am forever rewriting them, the result being that I posted that dry statement of fact.

I remember Glen Matlock saying he lifted the intro for Pretty Vacant from them other well known punk trailblazers, ABBA - I can't figure out which song he's talking about and, believe me, I've tried!

Brendan 😎

ABBA song??? I won’t delve too deeply!

I had a look at those 2 clues in the Quiptic 😳 I wish him well in his new job.

I’m reminded of a long ago TV critic here, who in his last newspaper article, wrote complete twaddle about programmes he made up; to prove no-one edited him. The first the paper realised was upon receipt of the 'Disgusted, Mount Merrion' letters.

I know, right - ABBA! But I promise you it's true.

Sorry, @27-29 was a reference to earlier posts in this thread where Phil, Jono and myself referenced Anto's offering.

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The ABBA song is SOS…..

Thank you Bowergirl, you're a ⭐

Regarding Anto, I recall this rather critical 225 entry which surprised me:

https://www.fifteensquared.net/2024/08/04/guardian-quiptic-1289-anto/

If a resignation announcement, the Quiptic is quite funny...
"Escape Notice" plus the infamous Steely Dan(s) [plural could be significant] (1d)

Anto set the just-posted (Tuesday's paper) Guardian Cryptic 29,699 FWIW.