Our Thursday challenge from Bluth.
Day: 6 November 2025
Guardian 29,845 – Fed
An enjoyable puzzle with a few tricky parsings that were fun to work out. Thanks to Fed.
Financial Times 18,206 by GUY
Guy is the setter this morning.
Enigmatic Variations No.1718 – Wanted by Kruger
“Each clue contains an extra word that must be removed before solving. In clue order, these words contribute letters to a phrase in one of two ways; in eight cases the first and last letters are used and in the remainder the position of the word within the clue indicates the position of the required letter within that word. This phrase identifies the eight unclued entries and solvers must highlight two clued entries that were, in the first instance, associated with them. Contents of the grey cells can be arranged to give what was WANTED which must be written below the grid. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”