A test area for 15squared
The preamble for Genius 142, when you can work your way through the hotch-potch of ‘temporary’ (?) workarounds the Grauniad have built …
The preamble told us that in 11 clues the wordplay produces a letter surplus to the solution. In order, these 11 letters …
The special instructions seemed vaguely familiar, and after a bit of searching I found that the idea of the definition applying to …
I should never have said that the December Genius was easier than the Christmas special puzzle; this Genius was much harder than December’s.
A message from Joyce: Before you read the preamble, I would like to apologise for my error in scheduling the date for publication. …
Given the “Special instructions: 16 is displayed in all other solutions. All clues lack definitions.” my first step was to look at …
Quite typically, I forgot I was meant to be blogging the Genius puzzle this month, so we solved it in a rush …
The preamble, or ‘Special Instructions’, as the Genius calls them, tell us to resolve one clash in each across solution, working out …