Last month’s puzzle brought a deluge of correct responses. It also brought out a legitimate complaint. Courtesy of the U.S. Post Office, some readers receive their magazines as much as a week after others, effectively undermining the “first correct solution opened” system. From now on, all correct solutions will be held for one week, at which time a drawing will be held to determine the winners. This will also allow newsstand buyers a fair shot. First winner will receive a $25 cash prize. Runner up will receive a free one year subscription to D. Winners and completed DIAGRAM will appear in the January issue.
Instructions:
Each CLUE defines a nine letter word answer (except where indicated in parentheses “two words,” still a nine letter com-posite). The CLUES contain straightforward definitions as well as anagrams, puns, double meanings and embedded spellings (an example of embedded spelling: “How it zeroes in distinguishes a cannon”).
The DIAGRAM contains sixteen heavy black squares which correspond in order (left to right, 1 thru 16) with the sixteen CLUES. Each CLUE answer is entered into the diagram in a box pattern made up of a heavy black center square and the eight lighter squares around it. The first letter of the CLUE answer goes in the appropriately numbered square. The answer then proceeds either clockwise or counterclockwise around the black center square (the solver must deduce each answer’s circular direction from evidence given by the overlapping answers around it) until it reaches the tail attached to the center square. The next letter of the answer is then extracted and entered into the center square. Thereafter, the answer continues around in the outer squares until completed.
If the center square is the numbered square, it holds the first letter. The rest of the answer then begins on one side or the other of the tail and proceeds in a direction away from the tail (which side and thus which direction will again be deduced from the overlapping answers around it).
As an added help: In the box patterns for answers 1, 9, 10, and 16, there are a total of sixteen outer squares which are part of no other answer. The letters which correctly fill these squares make up an anagram of WHEW! A ROUGH BENDER!
When the DIAGRAM is completed, the black center squares will spell out what this puzzle can mean to you if you’re the lucky winner.
Send the completed puzzle with name and address to Puzzling, D The Magazine of Dallas, 2902 Carlisle, Dallas 75204.
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