Never knowingly undersolved
26 clues require a letter to be moved to enable them to be solved. These then spell out a message. Eight cells need relocating in a symmetrical pattern. Then some line drawing and … Read more >>
‘The Moonlighters‘ sounds like a potential composite setter…some familiar faces ‘moonlighting’ as a merry ensemble? Time, and the comments section, may tell… Either way, this is a debut puzzle, as far as I can tell…and what are ‘they’ ADVERTISING to us?…
“Each clue gives an answer of nine letters to be entered clockwise or anticlockwise around the numbered square, starting anywhere and with one letter of the word placed in the central square. The 24 unchecked perimeter/corner letters might give PAN A LATE SOLUTION OF BLOCKS. Several of these can be deduced from entries and the remaining few ambiguities can be resolved by consideration of the familiar pattern of BLOCK LETTERS revealed in the numbered squares.
Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
A quotation clockwise around the grid to deduce and its author. Then five letters to change leving real words. Extra letters from 11 consecutive clues give the last instruction. Not complicated for once.
I think I’d rather be put IN THE DOCK by Karla than Kafka…but after a quick-ish start this turned out to be a bit of a ‘Trial‘…
“Eight across clues have an extra word to be removed before solving; its position in the clue indexes which of its letters to select. When read in clue order these letters might be a description of someone and when unjumbled what they were interested in. A nickname occupies the top row of the grid and the names of the PROTEGEES it refers to run around the rest of the perimeter. The unclued entries should be completed with their study groups, one of which is hanging upside down. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
Two oversized answers requiring a symbol to enter them – and then changing some cells to enter a name associated with this connection. So all in all very straight forward for an EV. … Read more >>
Hi everyone. I get a Kcit EV to blog about once annually and Kcitmas this year has fallen in May.
After DNFs in the previous two EVs, I was hoping for something nice and gentle for my turn to blog…reader: be careful what you wish Ifor!
“For 10 clues the entry is either the answer IN PART or vice versa (five cases of each), and in each of these clues an extra word, to be removed before solving, provides another version of one of these entries. In each of the remaining 24 clues an extra letter, which is not to be entered, is indicated by the wordplay; in clue order, these letters provide a message from which solvers can find a further trio to be written beneath the grid. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
A perimeter containing six members of a larger set with something omitted (teh same thing) from each one. 11 additional words in clues hinting at the theme with 4 unclued answers also guiding. … Read more >>
Hi all. Chalicea’s puzzles are often reassuring for a solver and this one looks like it might be doubly so. Only one way to find out …
Does Stick Insect have some sort of cautionary TALE to tell this week?…