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Preamble: Five across answers of a kind are entered as anagrams, representing a thematic process: wordplay in these clues leads to original answer, definition to grid entry. From 12 down clues, a letter … Read more >>

Preamble: Fourteen solutions must be thematically adjusted before entry. Solvers must highlight a statement expressing a character’s confidence that the adjustment would be performed for him, and his name. Only real words appear … Read more >>

Preamble: Ten answers, each forming at least a significant part of a member of a larger thematic set, must be modified before entry. Half of these entries indicate progress while the rest display … Read more >>

Preamble: When the unclued light is filled, the completed grid describes the position before the story started. Solvers must then change the contents of nine cells to describe the position at the end. … Read more >>

Preamble: Most clues contain either wordplay yielding an extra or missing letter or a single-letter misprint in the definition (approximately equal numbers of each). In order, the extra/missing/ correct letters give a quotation … Read more >>

Preamble: In a sequel to 1 across, X Y performed 50 (twelve words in total). Solvers should highlight the section of the grid in which the relevant callers are located. In six clues, … Read more >>

Saturday 26th October 2013 in Sheffield celebrating Nimrod’s 50th birthday is where the puzzle in its final form started. But the story really started about ten years ago… I had already had one Independent Weekend … Read more >>

Preamble: Eleven clues each have a single definitional misprint: the correct letters may be arranged to give the two word theme to be written under the grid. Five clues without definition lead to … Read more >>

Preamble: Nine thematic answers (one of two words) should be considered as associating only with ‘34-38s’, with each ‘34-38’ suggested twice. Correctly associated, all are 26s. Eight of these are clued by wordplay … Read more >>

Preamble: Solvers must scale component letters of some entries to match the illusion. This will require some letters to be entered in such a way that one to a cell is not maintained; … Read more >>

Inquisitor 1371Preamble: Wordplay in each clue gives the answer with either an extra or missing letter. In order, these letters spell out a phrase which identifies the pattern collectively provided by the separate … Read more >>

Preamble: To compensate for the loss of half of the clues, the editor has inserted (in an appropriate order) an extra letter in each of the remaining clues (most of which didn’t make … Read more >>

Preamble: Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their answers which must be fitted into the grid, wherever they will go. One of the five unclued entries has a direct association with three … Read more >>

Preamble: Ten entries, clued without definition, may be sorted into pairs to provide five names associated with a protagonist, X. In all remaining clues, single extra letters involved in wordplay spell a further … Read more >>

Preamble: Wordplay in down clues leads to an extra letter not to be entered in the grid. In clue order, these letters give advice concerning 47 across. Definitely one of the shortest preambles … Read more >>