Skip to content

Cryptivore 🦕

Cryptic Crosswords and other Mysteries of Life🔍

Menu
  • Twitter
  • About
  • Contact
Menu

Puzzle 3: What is It?

Posted on August 10, 2020August 8, 2020 by delajeff

It’s the third puzzle from Cryptivore. But that’s not important right now.

The first two puzzles I’ve put out have featured not only brilliant wordplay, but also careless enumeration mistakes. So I’ve triple checked this week’s entry and there are no mistakes. But, just to be clear, there are two entries that could have been enumerated differently – i.e. that are correctly clued (X) but, according to reliable sources, could have alternatively been clued (Y,Z) or (Y-Z) or (Y,Y) or…you get the picture. Have I said too much?

Once again, this week has a theme hinted at by the title, the image above, and multiple answers – 6 this time. There’ll be more puzzles that ask this question, but I promise they all won’t.

Puzzle 3 actually is important right now, as far as this post goes. The answer, with explainers, will be posted next Monday, and Puzzle 4 will be up on August 24.

What is It? (PDF)

What is It? (Across Lite)

What is It?Download

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

New cryptic crossword puzzles every month, and sometimes posts on other things. To have puzzles and solutions automatically sent to you, send an email to: cryptivoresubscription at gmail dot com.

Categories

  • Puzzles
  • Solutions

For Your Puzzling Pleasure

Tough as Nails (Stella Zawistowski)
Francis Heaney
Out of Left Field (Joshua Kosman & Henry Picciotto)
1ACross
Sid’s Grids (Sid Sivakumar)
Puzzle Source Google Sheet by @gritzmac
Outside the Box Puzzles (Joon Pahk)
Crossword Nation (Liz Gorski)
Queer Qrosswords
Rex Parker
Diary of a Crossword Fiend
Glutton for Pun (Erik Agard)
Matt Gaffney
JKL Crosswords (Jesse Lansner)
Neville Fogarty
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Grids for Good
Bewilderingly (Will Nediger)
Queer Qrosswords

Spotify Playlists

Best Songs of 2019
Best Songs of 2018
Best Songs of 2017
Best Songs of 2016
Best Songs of 2010-2019

Feedback

Email at jeff@cryptivore.com to send feedback, or just to say hi.

©2021 Cryptivore 🦕 | Built using WordPress and Responsive Blogily theme by Superb