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A blog that takes a look at the highlights from the week’s cryptics, and some of the puzzles coming up this weekend.
Phrase of the week
A bonkers puzzle from Io on Wednesday featured only 16 clues, including this anagram, well-timed for these balmy days —
Oh, is “No Rain” a hit? Hot, happy, high hopes thus when remixed (3,3,3,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,6)
Clues of the weekend
Leonidas on Saturday, offers —
Cleaner abridged dictionary reportedly produced (11)
Think of the name of a dictionary that’s been abridged, or shortened, and a word that sounds like a synonym of produced.
And here —
Declare period as standard (7)
You are looking for two synonyms that together make up a definition of another word.
Gozo in the Polymath general knowledge puzzle on Saturday seeks answers to identify an Italian actress, (6,5), a singing cowboy (6) and the author of A Room with a View (1,1,7)
And Aldhelm’s Numbers puzzle on Sunday needs knowledge on snooker’s maximum break, the year of the Bolshevik revolution and Hannay’s fictional steps.
How to solve
From Monday’s Slormgorm cryptic, here’s an anagram —
Workers in numbers assist in attic renovating (13)
Gurney’s Thursday puzzle had this hidden clue —
Some wigeon or mallard is common (6)
In Xela’s Friday puzzle —
Bird near trail next to lake (5,3)
Near = nigh, trail = tow, which when to put next to l for lake, gives you the name of a bird —
NIGHT OWL
From the FT Style Guide
HEADQUARTERS
Headquarters is a singular noun: the company’s headquarters is at . . .; politics is a singular science; economics is a singular obfuscation. Never say a company is headquartered somewhere. Say, it has its headquarters.
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