diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 3b504ac..df2e72e 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -333,21 +333,22 @@ each confirmed live against the real VM, not just read off a diff:
       fixing: does the board/firing-panel data model even have a place
       to put a second shell for one strike request, or does this need a
       new field/shape entirely?
-- [ ] "Answer by 10:30:00" isn't recognized as a deadline at all --
-      `_TAKING_FIRE_TIME_RE`/`_REQUESTED_BEFORE_RE` only know "before/by
-      \<time\>" and "Requested before - \<time\> -" phrasing. A third
-      deadline grammar to add.
-- [ ] A same-message "Important: ... Answer by \<time\>" follow-up line
-      gets misread as a brand new named entity header (the last-resort
-      bare-`<name>:` fallback rule matches "Important:"), creating a
-      bogus `Target#Important` carrying that deadline as its own
-      `requested_time`. Real false-positive in the header-detection
-      fallback, needs either an exclusion list (blocklist "Important"
-      and similar prose lead-ins) or a stricter bare-header shape.
-      Confirmed live against the user's real pasted message (with an
+- [x] "Answer by 10:30:00" turned out to be one bug, not two. The
+      phrasing itself was never the problem -- `_TAKING_FIRE_TIME_RE`
+      already matches any `before|by <time>`, "Answer BY 10:30:00"
+      included. The REAL bug: a same-message "Important: ..." follow-up
+      line was misread as a brand new named entity header (the
+      last-resort bare-`<name>:` fallback rule matched "Important:"
+      itself with nothing excluding common prose lead-ins), creating a
+      bogus `Target#Important` that stole "Answer by 10:30:00" into ITS
+      own `requested_time` instead of the real report's. Fixed with a
+      blocklist (`_BARE_NAME_HEADER_BLOCKLIST`: important/note/warning/
+      attention/caution/alert/reminder/priority) on that fallback rule --
+      once the phantom split stopped happening, the deadline resolved
+      onto the right entry with no separate fix needed. New regression
+      test, confirmed against the user's real pasted message (with an
       assumed `Infantry#N taking fire!` header line prepended, since
-      their paste seems to have been cropped before it -- worth
-      double-checking against the actual full in-game message).
+      their paste seems to have been cropped before it).
 
 - [x] "\<Type\>#\<id\> Destroyed" kill-feed parsing already exists and
       already marks the matching Target dead (`parse_destroyed`,
diff --git a/src/fenigma/ocr.py b/src/fenigma/ocr.py
index 1c6c684..71486c5 100644
--- a/src/fenigma/ocr.py
+++ b/src/fenigma/ocr.py
@@ -375,6 +375,17 @@ _NAMED_HEADER_RE = re.compile(rf"^{_TYPE_ID_FRAGMENT}\s*:?\s*(.*)$")
 # one), nothing else anchors this match, so an optional colon would
 # false-positive on an ordinary clue-continuation line's leading word.
 _BARE_NAME_HEADER_RE = re.compile(r"^([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)\s*:\s*(.*)$")
+# Even requiring the colon isn't quite enough: a prose lead-in word right
+# before a genuinely useful follow-up line ("Important: TEAR Shell first,
+# then HE Shell.") false-positives the same way -- confirmed live against
+# a real taking-fire message, where "Important:" got read as a brand new
+# named entity ("Target#Important"), stealing the actual report's own
+# "Answer by <time>" deadline into that bogus entry instead of the real
+# one. None of these read as an actual thing being spotted/named, only
+# ever as a prose interjection.
+_BARE_NAME_HEADER_BLOCKLIST = {
+    "important", "note", "warning", "attention", "caution", "alert", "reminder", "priority",
+}
 
 # Ad-hoc enemy installations are named in plain English rather than given a
 # Type#N id ("Enemy Signal Station:", "Bearing 034 from Enemy Signal
@@ -908,7 +919,11 @@ def parse_intel_blocks(text: str) -> list[dict]:
         # 'Target'), not a Reference Point, a named thing giving its own
         # clues is being spotted, not a fixed landmark spotters aim off
         # of, same reasoning as the "Target is at-" calibration line.
-        bare_m = next((m for c in candidates if (m := _BARE_NAME_HEADER_RE.match(c))), None)
+        bare_m = next(
+            (m for c in candidates if (m := _BARE_NAME_HEADER_RE.match(c))
+             and m.group(1).lower() not in _BARE_NAME_HEADER_BLOCKLIST),
+            None,
+        )
         if bare_m:
             flush()
             name = bare_m.group(1)
diff --git a/tests/test_ocr.py b/tests/test_ocr.py
index c08821d..3762a3e 100644
--- a/tests/test_ocr.py
+++ b/tests/test_ocr.py
@@ -383,3 +383,33 @@ def test_infantry_taking_fire_bearing_distance_short_range():
     assert coord == Coord("H", 7, 8, 4)
     assert shell is Shell.HE
     assert requested_time == "10:17:37"
+
+
+def test_taking_fire_important_followup_line_does_not_steal_the_deadline():
+    """A real user-pasted message: a same-report "Important: ... Answer by
+    <time>" follow-up line was being misread as a brand new named entity
+    header (the last-resort bare-"<Name>:" fallback matched "Important:"
+    itself), creating a bogus Target#Important that stole the actual
+    report's own deadline into that wrong entry instead of the real
+    StrikeRequest. "Answer by <time>" is also a deadline phrasing
+    _TAKING_FIRE_TIME_RE already covers (any 'before'/'by <time>') --
+    once the phantom split stops happening, it resolves correctly with
+    no extra fix needed."""
+    text = ("Infantry#4 taking fire!\n"
+            "Requesting <u><b>TEAR Shell</b></u> first, then <u><b>HE Shell</b></u>,\n"
+            "at bearing <b>308°</b>, distance <b>1.86km</b> from our position, <b>N2 0:9</b>\n"
+            "<u>Important:</u> <u><b>TEAR Shell</b></u> first, then <u><b>HE Shell</b></u>.\n"
+            "Answer by <u>10:30:00</u>")
+    info = ocr.parse_text(text)
+
+    assert (TargetType.UNKNOWN, "Important") not in info.targets
+
+    assert (TargetType.INFANTRY, "4") in info.allies
+    assert (TargetType.INFANTRY, "4") not in info.targets
+
+    assert (TargetType.STRIKE_REQUEST, "Infantry4") in info.targets
+    _, _, coord, shell, requested_time = info.targets[(TargetType.STRIKE_REQUEST, "Infantry4")]
+    assert requested_time == "10:30:00"
+    # Known gap, not asserted as fixed here: only the FIRST shell of a
+    # "X first, then Y" sequence is captured -- see TODO.md.
+    assert shell is Shell.TEAR