Never knowingly undersolved
A misprint in each clue, four empty cells, an unclued entry and then some artistic rendering. Apologies for the delay in posting – Thursday had it’s moments is all I’ll say. Some tricky … Read more >>
This puzzle almost COMPLETEly defeated me – until a PDM at the 11th hour of the 10th day after publication, just before the submission deadline…
“Two clues are provided for each of the shaded rows. Solvers must reorder the letters of their answers to give two creatures which might feature in GRIPPING YARNS. These are to be entered consecutively. Solvers must highlight a three-word phrase (13 cells in a straight line) describing the overall theme. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
Two clue devices this week. Extra letters in the wordplay and misprints in some definitions. Also 10 unclued entries and a piece of encryption to solve at the end. The gentleman amateur cracksman is our setter – for those who remember the novels by E W Hornung or Anthony Valentine on TV in the early 70s
Hello, with apologies this blog is a day late.
Kcit is calling for ORDER, ORDER in the EV House…we EV solvers can be an unruly lot sometimes…
“Eleven single-letter clashes mark points where a camouflaged OBSERVER infiltrates the grid, passing over wild forest glens. In the initially filled grid, her usual equipment (10) must be used to expose ten symmetrically positioned thematic characters, no longer safe in cave, sadly. All entries in the initially filled and final grids are real terms. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
3 columns of regular down clues that need treatment at the end. Regular across clues and down clues not in the 3 columns have an extra letter to remove before solving. The missing … Read more >>
Hello all. Well, I know a bit about failure … The preamble: The wordplay in each clue leads to an extra letter in addition to those needed for the answer. Read in … Read more >>
“Each clue contains an extra word that must be removed before solving. In clue order, these words contribute letters to a phrase in one of two ways; in eight cases the first and last letters are used and in the remainder the position of the word within the clue indicates the position of the required letter within that word. This phrase identifies the eight unclued entries and solvers must highlight two clued entries that were, in the first instance, associated with them. Contents of the grey cells can be arranged to give what was WANTED which must be written below the grid. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
Eight unclued entries, 27 clues with an extra letter and someone to find in the final grid. Sounds like fun.
Hi all. Well, we’re here because we like a good puzzling puzzle, so let’s see what Arcadia has in store.
We have the WRONG SORT of something from Wicksparrow this week…maybe it was the wrong sort of week for my blogging turn to fall?!