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Enigmatic Variations No.924 – Repeated by Lato

August 2, 2010 at 7:10 amJuly 31, 2010 at 12:00 am by Mister Sting

I wonder if I was alone in finding this tough. In retrospect, the preamble wasn’t unnecessarily misleading. Nor at any time did I think the clueing unfair. Still, for me this EV was one heck … Read more >>

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Enigmatic Variations No.920 – Find The Lady by Nutmeg

July 5, 2010 at 11:32 amJuly 3, 2010 at 10:49 am by Mister Sting

Bonjour! Un petit peu less ceremony with this one – just ten ‘thematically entered’ answers and four unclued entries. Still, there’s some grid highlighting to be done, which always gives one a pleasant … Read more >>

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Enigmatic Variations No.912 – Sounding by Loda

May 8, 2010 at 12:00 am by Mister Sting

I rather enjoyed this romp. I am, as I have previously confessed, rather fond of the ways and means used by some EVs (including this one): quotations constructed from excised letters and hidden … Read more >>

Categories Enigmatic Variations 9 Comments

Enigmatic Variations No.908 – Tightens by Warbler

April 26, 2010 at 6:43 pmApril 10, 2010 at 1:18 am by Mister Sting

I am most grateful to Warbler for this delightfully appropriate EV for my debut blog. Not only did it use two of my favourite mechanisms – corrected letters to spell out a message … Read more >>

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