Thanks to Quirister for swapping with us yesterday – we get a Serpent to blog!
Day: 28 March 2024
Guardian Cryptic 29,342 by Tramp
A treat to be standing in to blog the Guardian this morning.
Financial Times 17,692 JASON
Jason’s the FT setter today.
Enigmatic Variations No.1634 – The Magnificent Seven by Gaston
“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.”