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Not the most glamorous or ambitious set of clues, but it’s something to get me back in the habit.
Across
1. Medical leader judges this virus might give you a big head. (5)
4. Playful kind of Roger (5)
5. Drummer circles? (5)
Down
1. Roam free across Japan to concentrate. (5)
2. Audition for Moulin Rouge? She would have skipped it. (5)
3. Heads of state await your seal of approval. (3,2)
Click through to see the solutions for the A- and B-team of the healthcare puzzle.
Read the rest of this entry »Click through for a second set of clues to the same solutions. This batch is always a bit rougher: wordplay attempts that probably serve my amusement more than the solver’s!
Read the rest of this entry »Here is a bar-diagram cryptic — a first on this blog, I believe — that I started working on shortly after the pandemic started. The task I set for myself was to theme each clue around healthcare.
Across
1. Help make a house call in a very short time. (3)
4. Attraction stimulated his mercy while taking temperature. (9)
6. “Ratched”: a TV series that’s bold. (9)
7. Perhaps Nightingale’s caring for fifty in recovery hurt in a ball game. (9)
8. Every third histology sample is secret. (3)
Down
1. Brazen fraud: trio of electrocardiograms, two dollars? (9)
2. Based on evidence, and second opinion, I submit to miracle cure. (9)
3. Resolve odd coolness that neck surgery ends with. (9)
4. Back in pain? Drop ketamine — or wine, briefly. (3)
5. Correct eye sight, partly. (3)
Solutions to both versions of the puzzle after the break.
As always, the definition part of the clue is underlined, and the rest is annotated with asterisks indicating anagrams. Read the rest of this entry »
A fairly rough B-Team this time — I tried to make this puzzle quickly and didn’t want to spend time perfecting anything. But there are a few fun alternates that I didn’t want to waste! Read the rest of this entry »
Across
4 and 11. Structure that’s inflated by burning cyclobutanes. (6, 6)
5. Well, in the sea, soils and brigs wear away. (3, 3)
6. The rest, he had set in stone. (6)
10. Italian who designs part of antiwar manifesto. (6)
Down
1. Big Brother cancelled first on English channel? (3, 3)
2 and 8. Repaired chapel built next to hospital for the good of the community. (6, 6)
3. In play, the part where Hamlet is sent away, to England? (6)
7. Condiment is sour and a bit refreshing. (6)
9. Before maneuvering vein, doctor operated. (6)
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