Enthusiasts who relish a mental workout can now tackle the latest crossword offering, with puzzle number 17,591 promising a variety of wordplay challenges.
Test Your Across Clues Abilities
The latest crossword engages fans with clues like “belly laugh,” requiring a six-letter response, while “not transparent” also demands six letters for completion. Get closer to the nucleus in five letters with “Near(er) to the core.”
Cooking mavens may riddle over “fresh haddock, etc”, which spans three and four letters, and tech savants can piece together “computer images for documents” within a four and three-letter frame. There’s a five-letter answer needed for “Tomorrow perhaps,” while fashionistas can muster nine letters for a “canvas bag” styled either over-the-shoulder or back.
If anatomy and tranquility are your interests, test out “internal organs” with five letters and settle into a “peaceful” seven-letter term. Bird watchers get a chance to identify a “large bird of prey, ‘honey’ or ‘turkey’?” with a seven-letter guess. Completing the across section are musical learners with a call for a five-letter “Indian classical instrument,” judiciary interpreters hunting a six-letter link between “bothersome – judicial work?”, and connoisseurs quenching their curiosity on a “Cognac, eg” with another six-letter term.
Challenge Your Downward Thinking
Down clues kick off with a six-letter challenge for “Bug,” followed by a trip to Turku seeking a seven-letter language. Get biological with a five-letter “vital vessel” or examine physical anatomy with a seven-letter “joint bone.” Quilters and decorators alike can solve the five-letter “comforter – continental or patchwork?” Mystery.
Scholars can “earnestly recommend” a six-letter solution, or piece together the “critical point of change,” expanding the search to nine letters. “Bandits” take up seven letters, while the “noble gas” also requires seven for completion. Ice fans may enjoy solving the six-letter “frozen fruit juice dessert,” those with a sharp tongue may find the perfect six for “sarcastic,” and beverage minds can ponder “as cola or lemonade?” in five. Finally, wrap up with a five-letter “beam” of light or exuberance to complete the southbound quest.
The puzzle ensures a varied selection that promises to stretch the minds and vocabularies of all participating wordsmiths.
Reporting based on coverage first published by theguardian.com.