Rows, columns and clues all share one shape: a group of cells plus a count. So clue-versus-clue tricks also work between a line and a clue. Here the zero rows leave the 1 only the green cells, so the framed row ghost must be there — and the yellow ends of the row are ×. Same shape, same trick: the power of abstraction.

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