After scheduling this blog, I decided that I had to come back and add something – it is our 800th blog on 225!
It’s Joyce blogging again. I have to admit that I did not attempt to solve the puzzle before blogging. Last year Komornik set a puzzle which took us ages to unravel and we had to cheat at the end. We found many of the clues were challenging to say the least. As Bert and I have ended up blogging five puzzles between us, I decided to look at the parsings for each clue as I progressed through the blog and work out whether I would have had any chance of solving them.
So…. here’s the false title that Komornik submitted with the puzzle plus the preamble:
Puzzle that conveys vital information, contrarily expressed as a number of letters (for want of a proper title) by Komorník
All seven-letter entries (one thematically always found abbreviated) and 40% of five-letter entries exemplify what has often entertained us (three words, ignoring an article). All other clues contain a surplus word, whose initial letters define the theme. Solutions include a trade name and several very well-known proper names. You may, if you wish, write the real title here:
and the puzzle…