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.