1ACross is happy to present “Missing Instructions”, the latest offering from “Gussalufz“, exclusively for our readers.
The online interactive version can be completed and submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 28th November 2018.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leaderboard for 2018. Here’s the current leaderboard
Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Thursday, November 29, 2018.
Happy solving.
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
Please look for the following as you solve this puzzle
(a) Letter with Nina’s shape.
(b) Number of the second word ending in Nina’s initials.
(c) Number of the first word ending in Nina’s initials.
(d) Nina.JOIN the above ANSWERS to fill the blanks in the phrase:
??? ???????? ???????? instructions
Do an internet search on this phrase to find a set of instructions.
Some of the instructions thus found can be used to fill in the three-letter parts that are left unclued in the wordplay in all the clues for words that do not touch Nina.Only three such three-letter parts are used as fillers in all those clues. The nine letters from these three fillers can be jumbled to complete the following sentence:
Products that worked with the above used to have this ????: ????? inside. Can you find this??
Here’s the link to the interactive puzzle
Here’s a link to the PDF