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Enigmatic Variations
Enigmatic Variations 1609 Neighbours by Chalicea
A perimeter to fill in from the top left. Two unclued entries to fill in and highlight the name of the speaker. Sounds straight forward-ish. Some difficult clues – mainly the uncommon words … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations No. 1607: Eightsomes by Gaston
In crossword-land, ‘Eightsome’ is usually associated with ‘Reels’, and has 8-letter words meshing, cog-like, around their clue numbers…but Gaston seems to be serving up some different types of EIGHTSOMES here…
Enigmatic Variations No.1606 – Mind Your Language by Ovid
“A change of regime has led to a new political correctness. Six clues have no definition and their answers must be altered to comply with the new requirement to MIND YOUR LANGUAGE. Extra letters generated by the wordplay of down clues spell out a further instruction affecting 12 cells. Numbers in brackets refer to entry lengths. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended, One answer is an abbreviation; 20dn is in Collins.”
Enigmatic Variations 1605 Who, where and when by Ifor
Four clues with four or more consecutive letters to be removed which can then be used to identify who, where and when in conjunction with the extra letter instruction in the other clues. … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations No. 1604: Protest by Cranberry
Hi everyone. This kind of EV should be banned …
Enigmatic Variations No. 1603: Pie Crust by Jaques
What has Jaques served up for us this EV week? For PIE CRUST, will we have to fil-o the grid with some unusual ingredients?…and will our efforts prove a bit flaky?!…
Enigmatic Variations No.1602 – Birds by Picadilly
“In eight clues a consecutive group of letters is to be removed, affecting the surface reading. These groups of letters can be rearranged as BIRDS, which are to be inserted into eight normally clued answers to form new words. Numbers in brackets refer to lengths of grid entries. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended; one entry is in Collins.”
Enigmatic Variations 1601 Lame by Vismut
11 clues which contain a thematic word with its position in the clue defining a letter in the answer used. THis shows in the gird a character whose previous condition made them look … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations No. 1600: Count by proXimal
Hello, and welcome to EV 40 squared. We are always in good hands with proXimal.
Enigmatic Variations No. 1599: Full Steam Ahead by X-type
No fancy clueing devices from X-type this week, but we have a perimetral message, and something that looks like a speedometer in the middle of the grid, which is a first, I think! Are we going train-spotting?…FULL STEAM AHEAD!
Enigmatic Variations No.1598 – Action-packed by Eclogue
“Answers to five clues consisting of wordplay only are thematically connected to their entries. The wordplay part of every other clue includes an additional letter which must be removed prior to solving (always leaving real words). In clue order, these letters provide a refrain (with one variant spelling) of the reporters of this ACTION-PACKED sequence of events, who must also be completed (sharing a single letter). Numbers in brackets relate to entries. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
Enigmatic Variations No. 1597 Illumination by Vagans
July brings a puzzle from a new compiler to me – Vagans. I await my illumination. The preamble took several reads to reveal four words to comprise a book’s title and four key … Read more >>