This is part 25 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Y’s Are Wild crossword. That means any instances of the letter Y in the grid are to be treated as wildcards that do not need to match the corresponding letter in the che...
sheesh i think i've tried every regular selection of letters of the words preceding "frequently" and none of them makes sense, there must be something i'm missing
One day, the police find Martin's body and locate 3 suspects to record their statements:
Alice: If Martin died of murder, then the murderer is Bob.
Bob: If Martin died of murder, then the murderer is not me.
Carol: If Martin did not die of murder, then must die of suicide.
The police have conf...
I really doubt "Tony Joe" is the def... Wikipedia gives me only one other "Tony Joe", who is Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo, but 1) I don't see where I can get the B and 2) there's no D in the clue at all, so most likely there's no D in the fodder (going by the assumption that "frequently" is indeed a regular-letter-selection indicator).
If it's BATTERS, then ERS may be selected regularly (play)E(rmaybep)R(ecociou)S(hes), every eight letters but starting at the fifth. But that would mean that "White A soccer" clues BAT somehow, which seems absurd.
The King wants to test his 2 very smart advisors Sadin and Lena. In the courtyard he sets up 4 closed wooden boxes on a table. All are the exact same size. In front of each box there is a name plate.
The King announces:
“ Sadin and Lena, see these 4 sandalwood boxes? Each one has a fruit inside. ...
ok @msh210 I'll take a shot. is this POM (slang, possibly derogatory, for a brit, which all three soccer players named joe white I linked above are) + P...O...U...S (every fourth letter of "precocious he's")?
@juicifer fun fact: if you take the whole clue (apart from the word "frequently") and take every seventh letter you get TWOABCS, which would be very cool if the clue was in fact a double pangram