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Brad's 4th Variety: Original Sin

◆◆ · By n0hk · Published 2023-03-07T02:35:10.951Z

Constructor's Note
The left side of the grid is pretty BAFTA-y (British As F*, TA), while the right side is trying to channel its inner OSCAR (Obnoxious Stateside Clue Alert, Reeeee!) [Don't blame me, others coined these phrases for when clues were particularly UK/US slanted]. Enumerations have been withheld from the RHS, which has a medley of different clue types including 15 clues which include definitions only.
I'm trying something a lot different with this one, any feedback about what did or didn't work for you would be appreciated. There was certainly a lot of feedback from my wonderful test-solvers teamcrazymatt, Juff, and Pixlate.
The title of this grid is a departure from my previous naming convention (A rather [descriptor] cryptic), instead it's done as a Keynesian title. Jack Keynes (https://keynesiancryptics.blogspot.com/) brilliant grids are all given names which are two-word phrases, where each word of the phrase links to some entries in the grid. They're not the most helpful when trying to solve grids, but do provide an additional challenge of trying to identify which entries might have contributed to the title.
Hopefully it proves as interesting for you to solve as it was for me to set.
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