This is part 62 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Every clue in this cryptic crossword contains one extra word, which must be removed before solving. Read the first and last letters of the removed words in clue order to reveal ho...
In the first puzzle add a number exactly twice to get a country.
In the second puzzle add a letter exactly twice to get a state.
It is possible to get more than one solution here as solvers can be quite imaginative. But I have only a single solution so far.
@oAlt the extraction is a pretty cliche one. I personally found the clue for LENDL the hardest and gave up. After looking at the answer I felt pretty stupid.
@oalt a lot of the puzzle I cheated and used multiple crossword solving tools on the net. If I canโt get a clue I tend to reverse engineer the answer either from feeding the ends systematically or finding possible answers from letters already filled in, usually I can find a very plausible answer after only a little search. Like I cheesed the Canada clue by typing places in Canada (8).
Manibota had boat in it so it was a very promising prospect
I myself am still not immune to using the word matching website Quinapalus and looking at dictionaries (mainly MW and Collins) and Wikipedia if I don't know any words for the definition
I think that was minimal in Jafe's crossword earlier, but I guarantee you that's not what happens in general lol
Beginner puzzleThis puzzle is intended to be suitable for people who are new to puzzle solving. However, both experienced solvers and new solvers are welcome to post solutions to this puzzle.
Objective:
Fill in the 6x6 grid with digits such that each row, column, and 6 2x3 subgrids that compose...
Wordle is a game in which you have to guess a 5-letter word. Here's a snip from the New York Times website:
Judging the letters is done from left to right. So here is an example that I think covers the corner cases:
One of the features of this game is that you can share your game result with th...