Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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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
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Vagans has us thinking today of our alphabet or maybe the Jackson 5.… Continue reading
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Our friend(s) Gemini claimed that the “commonality” is Vismut (the setter’s name and the nordic name for Bismuth), namely “Bi” in the periodic table.… Continue reading
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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
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Submitting the preamble to Gemini proved useless: it was convinced that the theme was Shakespearean (a naive assumption due to the title).… Continue reading
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It is always good to start a new year off with a puzzle from Chalicea, whose puzzles are usually not too difficult and always fun.… Continue reading
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Gemini has been hallucinating again: when I submitted the instructions, I was told: “This preamble belongs to a notable Inquisitor puzzle (IQ 1639) by Pandiculator titled ‘Clockwise’, which was originally published in April 2020.”… Continue reading
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Having consulted our friend Gemini I was offered several candidate sets to consider: days of the week / months of the year, the seven dwarfs or seven deadly sins, noble gases or chemical elements, musical notes (do, re, mi…), planets in the solar system, greek alphabet letters.… Continue reading
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Gemini is improving. When I asked it how to deal with the preamble below it actually proposed a sensible structured solving process.… Continue reading
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Kcit, AKA Phi (also on offer in this week’s EV) or Pedro, has set us a mostly-orderly puzzle. … Continue reading