cdi.
A rove around
around around around: a
bottleneck

forming. 'The
dull glow
of

banking
lunacy.' Alleged
backers back

off. Five
windows
still intact.

cd.
Grant
maintained
genetically

modified.
Squash ice
lolly

golden
boy. Front
resuming

fight. ‘Shall
we shell
conquests?’

Family
as
irony. God

as
corporate. Choice
of whine. A

jobbing
cobbler
let loose

here has ‘let
you down’?
Explosions

rattle national
hope. Denies
‘dumbing down’

major reforms
close
to hand. ‘Hand me

that
dynamite,
dear.’ ‘I dream

of Ann
Coulter.’ Decides
to rest ‘tired

logo’. Secret
kept. Older,
tamer, competes

for blessing.
Remembered
impassioned

sermon
ignored
(rightly) ‘till

its natural
end’. Pushes himself
to the limits

beyond
belief. On brink
of defeat a

little politics.
Happy smiling
cult leader. ‘I

like looking
at this.’ Death
after death, blood

following blood. Collect
call
answered. Alfa

alfalfa
all alpha. Boast
the most. Slipped

disc generates
genesis. Noble
amusements ‘just

a beginner’. Duties
abound but
faint. Grow

boy. Buy
weapons
for seven. The

author of
the whole.
Executive

outcome
excessively
shocking. A magical

debut. A turbulent
career does
right thing. Uses

the right words. Stance
on slaughter
sought. Love

hotel. A
reproductive
quarto

releases a
‘slodge of
wonga’. Ice

cold water-
fall laid
off. A

tidy land-
slide solar
flare flash

mob. All
fell far. Rambunctious. ‘I
declined

assistance.’

cccxcix.
Wintry
aspect. A big
round space. Into

his home. Agreed in
principle. Bloody
fury in

private. Influence
in Venice, in
Paris. Bred

spiders talks
falter. Looking
cool

in black.

cccxcviii.
Howling montage gets
the goat. Man walks
past bar. People had

to queue. Barrage of
quilts. Launch by
whistleblower. 'I may

stand
for a seat.' 'Not before
the pale.' 'I

can't see how that is
possibly contentious.'

cccxcvii.
Mine
architect. Self-
cleaning

glass a past
participant. Always
finds the good

in them. Walk
the walk to
fashion standing

monstrous.

cccxcvi.
Tending in-
equalities. Officially taken
aback. Alive. To talk. To

town. Stiff rising admission
of weakness. How to
stay together. Plinths reveal

zero vision. Begin to say
goodbye. Wax plutocratical: a
marvellous protest. Reveals

a strategy
switch.

cccxcv.
Chin-stroking on
the increase. 'Weirdly
wonderful' will never be

America's sweetheart. What
a novel novel. Scourge
everything. Mention

missile defenses. (As in
change.) Always
ready to help. Not always

keen
being charged. Impossible
to pick

holes. Too
exciting
for words.

cccxciv.
(Very) brief
respite. 'We will
keep up.' Clown

offensive. Long
wait raises
dread. Prison

without
bars. Spiteful
genes generate

'killer' gas. 'Life
is a
risk. Get on

with it.' Er. . . .

cccxciii.
These shackles. 'For
every one
of us.' Bigger: better. Knives

are out. Charges
dismissed. Words not
actions, he said. 'Had no

comment
to make.' Embarrassment
disarmed. Officially

run out.

cccxcii.
Creation anyone
can own. One thing worse
than weather: weather.

May be pardoned in
return. Comes out
shooting. Toasts paltry

faithful. Loots
the body
politic (&

otherwise). 'I
have
endless problems

with attachments.'

cccxci.
Something like
burnt flesh. Wholly
burden. 'To what degree

is it easy
to be
the

underdog?' New
rules. New
orders. The

Faculty of
Fine Arts.

cccxc.
Old white
mischief makers.
'My job as I

see fit.' A light
wave. Tarnished
idol left

to reflect on
righteous anger. Some
sort

of invasion
occurred.

ccclxxxix.
Expected
to illuminate. And that's
not all. Generation

needs
to get
married. An

extraordinary
row sparked/simmering
feud

laid to bare. Revenge
double-
crossed. Six

serving rabbits.

ccclxxxviii.
Lacrimal. Plain
sockets addicted
to plastic. Dot-

to-dot. 'The dead
are everywhere.' 'Society has
been coarsened.' Time

to get
over it. The
brutally

honest. 'There was
nothing
in them.' Angelus.

ccclxxxvii.
'Hello. How
are you? Are you
OK?' 'Just

as shocking
than.' The
graceless

decline. Fame re-
invents itself
as jail. Puts his home

on the market. Violence
hopes. Planning
to flee.

ccclxxxvi.
'None of these
countries
has an army.' 'Wondering

if anyone
has seen one
anywhere

as yet.' Action heroes look
good on TV. Apologies
for scale. 'Less

afraid of dying
than last week.' ' I
continue writing down

the signs.'

ccclxxxv.
Boardroom bonanza
pays off. Stepper, hostage, parsley
sage rosemary &

thyme. Driver
sings. River
swells. A poisoned

problem pleads
for answers. 'I
regularly kill

insects.' 'It's more
than my job's
worth.' Kids run

down thru dirt.
Paid out.

ccclxxxiv.
Mercenary
size & shape: sick
notes, stresses &

strife. Crisis blamed
on chaos. 'I sensed
the few.' How cash

helps golden glow. Stole
a gag. Punters sold
short. Figurative

work 'often made
by scraping away
the first layer of paint

from his canvas
with a meat
cleaver'.

ccclxxxiii.
Stealing a
masterpiece. The pain
and the glory re-

housed. Metal
group therapy refuses to quit
race. Disasters shun science. Block his

execution. Vow
to spread. Crash
a Formula 1 racing car. Go

into space and get
shipwrecked.

ccclxxxii.
Fell on
disc. Fake
goods in-

dustry. Distraught
after pulling familiar
faces. Bogus

nightmare
retaliates against
homecoming. Distinct lack

of character sets
tone.