Monday, 5 October 2026
A hidden sentence, revealed by the answers to its clues. The clock starts when you press start — not before.
Counts vary with what you call an island, but the usual figure is around 790. The census finds people living on about ninety of them, and most of Scotland's islanders are on a handful of the big ones: Lewis and Harris alone has some twenty thousand.
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