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[Hajime]

A symmetric Shaolin with all overlapping areas clueless. But also 2 middle bands have both 7 adjacent clueless boxes.
1 Solution of course and box<->column/row and hidden/naked pairs/triples techniques are needed.

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[enxio27]

Thank you! I'm looking forward to it!

Which clueless nonets form the additional grid? That isn't clear to me. (Normally, it is the center nonet of each of 9 grids that form the extra grid.)

[Hajime]

This time no additional grid. I think I misused the word "Clueless"; I mean "empty boxes".

[creint]

Solved with only given grids, so no additional grid needed to solve this.

[enxio27]

Solved with only given grids, so no additional grid needed to solve this.

So then, technically not a clueless puzzle, as invented by Ruud.

[Hajime]

Sorry, I meant boxes are empty, not clueless

[enxio27]

Sorry, I meant boxes are empty, not clueless

No worries! Now it makes sense.