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7 by 7 Vanilla X AK 2

This one is for Enxio.

Anti-King does not work well with Nonets and I find 9 by 9 a bit large without them.
It is X
It is anti-king diagonally adjacent cells cannot repeat.

This is difficult I used a lot of small fishes.

I've not been able to post recently as my ISP was identified as a spam source (twice). I have a backlog of puzzles which I had intended to post for Christmas. I'll try and catch up over the next few weeks.


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JS Code: (remember to add anti-king)
1........2........3........4.5...3....6........7.

Solution:
1473625
3625147
5147362
7362514
2514736
4736251
6251473

If you want to make it a bit easier put 5 in r1c7 - just one fish needed

Hmmmm. . . Even with all of the candidates printed out (using JSudoku), I have NO clue where to start with this.

Clue: Start with pointing pairs 3's first

remember a lone adjacent pair in say r4c56 points to r35c56

Thanks! I'll give it another try. The lack of boxes (3x3 nonets) is really throwing me off.

Still giving me trouble. Now that I've finally finished Ruud's Christmas Tree Sudoku-X, I'll stare at it some more. Maybe something will jump out at me.