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How to do an acrostic puzzle6/3/2023 The first hint provides the length of each word in the quotation (which may be useful for double-acrostic solving), and the second provides the grid location of each of the extraneous, blackened-in grid squares. Should you need them, you will find two hints following the clues. Note that these blackened-in grid squares serve no other purpose and may interrupt words in the quotation. These extraneous spaces, each of which occurs immediately following the first vowel (a, e, i, o, u, or y if used as a vowel) in each clue answer, correspond to grid squares which should be blackened-in doing so will reveal an image relevant to the quotation. There is one extra letter space in the set of letter spaces following each clue. As always, beware of punctuation in the clues, which may be misleading. There are no proper nouns, uncommon words, or variant spellings, and all words are playable in Scrabble. The first letter of each clue answer, when read top to bottom, will spell out the name of the speaker and the source of the quotation. Once complete, the grid will spell out a Presidential quotation. For this one, Eric Klis and I served as test solvers, and we made some editorial suggestions.įor the most part this is a standard double acrostic puzzle, with all the clues being cryptic clues. This issue’s puzzle was created by Bob Fink and Jerry Miccolis, two of my regular test solvers.
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