Gabriel – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

EV 1753 (Hints)

Enigmatic Variations 1753 (Hints)

Tomfoolery by Curmudgeon

Hints and tips by Gabriel

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Gemini wasn’t very helpful – basically, rewrote the preamble as a structured list (it loves organising information but isn’t it  supposed to make it useful as well?). Continue reading

EV 1749 (Hints)

Enigmatic Variations 1749 (Hints)
Connection by Ranunculus
Hints and tips by Gabriel

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Gemini was quite excited by the opportunity to search for an innovator and a connection and proposed several candidate innovations and inventors – the most promising were: “The Electric Battery”, Volta (5), symbols=”+,-”, and “The Electric Telegraph”, Morse (5), symbols = (Dot) and (Dash).Continue reading

EV 1747 (Hints)

Enigmatic Variations 1747 (Hints)
Group of Four by Ifor
Hints and tips by Gabriel / Jpeg

I-four has set us a four-midable challenge today. Although one can imagine many appropriate musical groups of four, our favourite AI model has suggested a particularly noteworthy four-piece band as a common thread for various song titles that could affect modes of entry.Continue reading

EV 1741 (Hints)

Enigmatic Variations 1741 (Hints)
Ex Troubles by Deuce
Hints and tips by Gabriel

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Well, Gemini you really have to start paying attention to your prompts: this time it confidently corrected me: “This is EV 1664 by Cid, which you may have seen mislabeled or re-indexed as 1741 in certain digital archives or collections.Continue reading

EV 1735 (Hints)

Enigmatic Variations 1735 (Hints)
Unstated by Kcit
Hints and tips by Gabriel / Jpeg

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It looks like Kcit (one of our favourite appropriately inverted antipodean setters) is trying to present us with a fun way to state what was left unsaid in a certain poem.Continue reading