A crossword whose clues and answers include every letter except the easy one
The annotated solution to Brendan’s recent Guardian Saturday prize puzzle bears a little introduction:
* lipogram (5 down) is a composition totally lacking a particular letter, in this case E, which does not appear in the clues or solutions
I was born in midtown Manhattan right as World War Two was drawing to a, uhmm… to a conclusion.
The shorter words which hold the grid together make the greatest call on the setter’s ingenuity. Some words only really exist in crosswords: the famous IO, EON, LAI, ITE, ERS, ANA, IBN and BEN as well as RU, PAT, MAT, INO, ENEE and UTE; the setter makes it a point of honour to find for each of these a clue that no one has used before.
5dUnusually prim goal for work lacking, in a way — such as this (8)
[ wordplay: anagram (‘unusually’) of PRIMGOAL ]
[ definition: a piece of work which has an omission – as does this puzzle ]
A delight is when commentators find things that I was unaware of in my puzzles.
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