Deliberately suppose the yellow cell is a ghost. The clue 1 fills, so the three blue cells in its window all become × — but those were the last candidates of the pink-framed column, which still needs one ghost. Impossible! So the guess was wrong, and the yellow cell is ×. If it leads to nonsense, it is not true: proof by contradiction.

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