Never knowingly undersolved
Hello all. Well, I know a bit about failure … The preamble: The wordplay in each clue leads to an extra letter in addition to those needed for the answer. Read in … Read more >>
“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.”
Eight unclued entries, 27 clues with an extra letter and someone to find in the final grid. Sounds like fun.
Hi all. Well, we’re here because we like a good puzzling puzzle, so let’s see what Arcadia has in store.
We have the WRONG SORT of something from Wicksparrow this week…maybe it was the wrong sort of week for my blogging turn to fall?!
“Solvers must highlight 29 cells showing (3,3,7) in the symmetrically shaped (3,6,2,5) as recounted by 11.
In 19 clues there is a misprint in the definition that must be corrected before solving. Correct letters spell a three-word phrase that will help lead solvers to the SHAMBLES. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
29 clues with an extra letter will give us a piece of verse; The next line allows us to know what needs to be removed from 16 answers before entry. Relatively straight forward … Read more >>
Hello. Sorry this post is a little later than normal. I thought I’d managed to schedule it last night, but it disappeared without trace. Hopefully we are now through the particular obstacle course of the site maintenance, and can turn our attention to this one …
Is Charybdis trying to LULL-ABY us into a false sense of security, by making us think this is a nice gentle puzzle to fall asleep with?…
“Extra words in some clues are synonyms for different words which each form a square in the grid within which a circle, touching all sides, must be drawn. In 14 other clues the wordplay gives one incorrect letter. Read from the grid the correct letters name an IMMUTABLE character. Read in clue order, the incorrect letters indicate what colour to fill the grid and how many circles to fill with what colour. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
Eight clues with misprints give a clue to three inscriptions. Simple as that or is it?
Hello one, hello all. The preamble: From the answers in each column, two letters are removed, one to the top row, one to the bottom. Where there are two entries in a … Read more >>
A quick check – no, this isn’t the Grauniad, so that probably isn’t just a typo in CRASSWORD…
“Four horizontal bars have been omitted from the two central columns. Having filled the grid, solvers must highlight a pair of words in the outer two columns that describe an action, and show its IMPACT on the grid by moving a thematic block of cells within the central columns, displacing another block and creating five new down entries, no two of which have the same length, to be delineated by adding four bars. The thematic block must also be highlighted. Clues to the 17 across entries that are unchanged each contain a letter to be dropped to enable solving. In clue order these letters spell a thematic name.