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Has anybody else completed this puzzle and come up against an impenetrable barrier when following the preamble? The misprints give me a logical sentence but the workings of the down clues result in a string of letters devoid of any sense. Nowadays it seems that setters prefer to contort instructions to a degree greater than the difficulty in the crossword.

Daw, with the down clues, if the extra word is, say, the third word in the clue, you select the third letter in the clue. (Not in the word itself)