Enigmatic Variations No.1634 – The Magnificent Seven by Gaston

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“Single-letter clashes occur in circled cells; reading in column order, picking one of the letters in each clash will spell out what THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN have in common; the other 14 letters should be entered in the cells. In each clue, the wordplay leads to the answer and a single extra letter; reading in clue order, these letters show how one would access one of the MAGNIFICENT SEVEN using the (appropriately positioned) circled letters. Its creator (4,8) should be written below the grid. One answer is an abbreviation; Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”

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Guardian 29,340 / Pangakupu

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It’s more than six weeks since Pangakupu’s last appearance – time enough for it to take a few minutes for me to retune to his wavelength. Once started, the answers began to flow, … Read more >>

Independent 11,686/Lark

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It’s eighteen months since Lark made his debut in the Independent, and he has been a regular if infrequent setter of mainly Sunday puzzles since then. But this is the first time our … Read more >>