Change my first, I'm entertaining
Change my first, I can kill
Change my middle, I'll be over
Change my middle, I'm some bloke
Change my last, I'm made of skin
Change my last, I'm better than gin
@OmegaKrypton One strategy of making cryptic clues cryptic is to use lesser known meanings of common words. I've seen main=sea so often in British cryptics that it's more of a chestnut than a real stumper to me.
And "hidden clues" are a valid kind of clue, but if so, the whole clue should be hidden. You can't assemble a larger clue from this device like you can with oter tpes of clues. (And hiding "sea" in "seat" isn't very clever. More often, the answer is hidden across several words.)
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This is a Heyacrazy puzzle.
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Shade some cells of the grid.
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Anchor's away!
Ahoy, puzzlers, I am Cpt. Wesley Wordsquare.
I'm about to set sail for the mainland to see a show at my brother Winslow’s
Wordsquare Theatre, however I can't seem to decipher this old map to shore.
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North Qu...
It's White to move and checkmate Black in 36 moves. I have slightly changed the original stipulation. Feel free to explain the title if you want to!
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P.S.-How has the title NEVER been taken before? It's crazy that such a simple phrase HASN'T been taken yet!
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One day G...