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This page is where you can provide feedback relating to Fifteensquared or raise issues regarding the website itself. Comments posted before 28/2/2022 can be found here. This post is now closed. New comments … Read more >>

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This page is for the discussion of general crossword related matters and other topics of interest. Comments posted before 28/2/2022 can be found here. This post is now closed. New comments can be … Read more >>

Guardian Prize 28,685 / Brummie

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It’s four months since Brummie appeared in the Saturday slot and that puzzle also fell to me to blog. It had Special Instructions, with eight clues producing one of a pair of commonly … Read more >>

Guardian Cryptic 28690 Pasquale

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Thank you to Pasquale.  Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 8. What Jacob was? Leader of House — stuffy with it (8) HAIRLESS : 1st letter of(Leader of) “House” plus(… with it) … Read more >>

Enigmatic Variations No.1526 – Elimination by Wan

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“In 27 clues an extra letter (always in the wordplay part) must be discarded before solving, thereby completing most of A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION; another to be eliminated must be removed from the grid. The finisher must be revealed by replacing an appropriate word (six cells). The theme must be highlighted in the grid, apart from the 1st, 5th and 14th (last) letters. Finally, the two parts must be linked by adding a bar and then both parts embellished (in the solver’s own style) to depict the finisher. All changes leave real words; Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”

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