If you suspect a technical glitch or gremlin is preventing you from completing the puzzle, we recommend you take a screenshot by pressing your Ctrl + ‘Prt Scr’ buttons simultaneously (instructions relate to Windows Users only. Look for letters or boxes within the grid NOT highlighted in green. Should the comp entry screen fail to appear following input of the last letter in the grid, it’s likely you’ve made a boo-boo and will need to revisit some of the clues and answers you’ve provided. This allows easy identification of errors, enabling you to make necessary corrections before being automatically directed, upon completion, to the competition registration page. In response to your feedback, we have implemented a change whereby correct letters/words are now highlighted in green. To better replicate the experience of solving a crossword in its traditional print format, and to level the playing field with this competition puzzle, we have made some modifications to the hints menu in this new puzzle. Simply submit you details and you’re in the running! What happened to crossword hints – letter, word, and shaded square options? Upon successful completion of the Enigma crossword puzzle (completed with 100% accuracy) you will be transferred immediately to a separate screen within the puzzle frame which requests your name and email address. On the topic of clues that approach being an “all in one”, where the same words provide definition and wordplay, I always appreciate a hidden answer that I fail to see for a good time.įind a collection of explainers, interviews and other helpful bits and bobs at the new Enigma multiplatform crossword – we’re getting back to basics! How to Enter the Enigma Crossword Competition for your chance to win cash: Please leave entries for the current competition – and especially non-print finds and picks that I may have missed from the broadsheet cryptics – in the comments. And the winner is the not-inaudacious “She’ll leave dropping her new glass slipper in confusion?”. The runners-up are Thepoisonedgift’s homely “One who might fetch fresh newspapers relishing collecting mail, ultimately” and Montano’s urgent “Dog barking, slipping harness? We’re back in control”. The audacity award goes to Newlaplandes for attempting and nearing an all-in-one clue with “Can it jump, point, run, stretch, and occasionally bite my trousers?” Wellywearer2, meanwhile, is somewhere way, way beyond audacity. Thanks for your clues for WELSH SPRINGER SPANIEL, which I’m imagining is either in a jumbo grid or broken up across a normal one. Google NGrams results showing increased use of “palindrome” starting in the 1960s.įor our next word, let’s take the other adjective: reader, how would you clue PALINDROMIC? Cluing competition Today’s puzzle has an extraordinary quality. The most recent Tuesday puzzle from the New York Times (which requires a subscription) comes, unusually, with a rubric: It’s also a clue from his first Guardian puzzle, on 30 August 1982, as the whole thing was reprinted in 2017 as a farewell. … in this case one straight and one cryptic, for STATED. Here’s a clue from his final Guardian puzzle, which shows off his propensity for a couple of definitions … In fact, it was because of a ban on Magic Circle members playing card games in his naval base that Squires discovered an interest in newspapers’ crosswords. An obituary is coming in the meantime you can read our Meet the Setter interview, which gives a glimpse into a life that also involved magic tricks. Roger Squires, AKA Rufus, died on 1 June.
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