Category: Osmosis

Toughie No 3348 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Gazza

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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****

A typically enjoyable puzzle from Osmosis which is perhaps slightly gentler than what he usually provides. The puzzle has zero anagrams, 25/26^th of a pangram and a plentiful supply of abbreviations (I’m glad I’ve set up a shortcut for that word in Microsoft Word).

Thanks to Osmosis.

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Toughie No 3324 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Gazza

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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****

We know what to expect from Osmosis – clever wordplay, a dearth of anagrams and very nearly but not quite a pangram (only one letter missing this week as far as I can see). I enjoyed it a lot – thanks to our setter.

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Toughie No 3308 by Osmosis
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****

Osmosis has taken a leaf out of Beam’s book and given us a very enjoyable anagram-less puzzle. Thanks to him.

There’s a lot of cleverness on view in the grid. For a start we have (almost) a double pangram – there are no Hs but two of them are visible in the make-up of the grid. Also, we only have a single W but we do have a couple of spare Us (i.e. a double-U). Finally, and I don’t know how significant this is, several pairs of the higher scoring Scrabble letters appear separated by a single letter in the four quadrants (i.e. going clockwise from top-left  Q?Q, X?X, Z?Z and J?J).
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