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Vol. I · No. 24 · The Weekly Issue · From Key West to the Panhandle

The Floridian

Reporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula

Puzzles & Games · The Cryptic

Cryptic № 4,127

British-style clues, Floridian-friendly grid. Solutions post Monday.

This week's cryptic, constructed by our regular setter under the pseudonym Egret, is a fifteen-by-fifteen with a light Florida theme. There are three long entries. One of them is a rebus. One of them is, technically, a lie. The third is exactly what it appears to be, which is, in a cryptic crossword, itself a form of misdirection.

Solvers who have not attempted a British-style cryptic before should read our brief guide, which is linked at the top of the puzzles page. Solvers who have will already have noticed that 12-across contains a hidden word, that 7-down is an anagram of the setter's own name, and that 1-across is, we regret to inform you, a pun.

Solutions and a full annotated write-up post on Monday morning at seven Eastern.


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