1ACross is happy to present with “The Devil in the Detail”, from “Avtaar”, exclusively for our solvers.
Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 29th January 2020.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our new leader board for 2020.
Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Thursday, January 30, 2020.
Happy solving.
NOTE FROM THE AVTAAR 1. I decided to feature M in this offering. By and large M represents the theme (In stray cases M could be..well.. M). Of course you will find words related to the theme in the solutions as well as in many clues.2. A second feature of this grid is that there are 4 (four) Printer’s Devilry or PD clues.
All PD clues are indicated by a (P) symbol at the end of the clue
Note on Printer’s Devilry clues: For those who are not familiar with Printer’s devilry clues, these are clues where the surface is a sentence from which the letters of the solution are consecutively removed by mistake in the manner that a typesetter might omit. If the letters representing the solution are added to the surface at a suitable point another valid and logical sentence will result.
PD clues have no definition.Every sentence with the letters in the solution consecutively added to the surface at an appropriate place must be a grammatically correct and valid sentence. Such a sentence is the “undevilled” version as opposed to the “devilled” version which is the surface of the clue. Liberties are allowed in punctuation and spacing as well as splitting of words differently in the undevilled version.
An example from Azed Clue (devilled) : His skill with the ball is put in motion (4) Undevilled version: His skill with the ball is pu(RE AR)t in motion giving REAR as the solution
Another example of mine Clue (devilled): Unusual pains for India’s badly off (4) Undevilled version: Unusual pai(R OPE)ns – for, India’s badly off (4) The answer, therefore, is ROPE
Further details can be obtained from this link
Here’s the link to the Interactive Version. If you need it, you can get a PDF, by opening the grid and then choosing File, Print and Print to PDF