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Lumen: I'm stumped, so Stevem please expand on your remarks - 'The bottom line isn't ?wxyz, 20D may help' and '20D is particulalry helpful, and if rearranging some of the others gives a word, then that will help too'

20D will help with the last two lines of the square, but if it were ?WXYZ this would mean ?M??P and hence N and O would both not be part of the phrase which is unlikely.

The phrase is not something guessable as it really only makes sense when decoding the puzzle's title.

I don't know if this will help or hinder, but this is the sort of thing I mean:

S E ? U T
G D
? R

I think it works. I offer it as a vague sort of starting point.

Sorry, it hasn't come out. It's become left-aligned.

Unfortunately it's not S E ? U T. Yes, UT must go together and so must SE but SE doesn't need to be before UT.
Also GD need not be below this line.

I offer 12345UTSE67R8... as a start

Thanks, Peterm, for hint with PL32. Got it now. Just (ha-ha!)the Playfair code now.

I found that 32A helped as it gave me a word.

Phew! Got there in the end with 2 lines logically deduced and then a guess as to the 3rd.

Is "boniface" involved anywhere KT or am I barking up the wrong tree?

The keywords are such that the Quinapalus playfair cracker won't help (believe me, I tried!).