Cryptic #7
PDF - puz - online - Solution Hope you are having a good summer! How is it already the middle of August? This puzzle falls on Friday the 13th, so a Happy Colgate Day to those of you that celebrate. The clue at 1, the seed entry, is definitely my favorite in the puzzle--it took a few weeks to get the surface to read as naturally as possible. I hope you'll get a kick out of it when you see where it leads. I tried a different black square layout in this grid, such that the Across entries starting on the left, and the Down entries from the top, have their first letters unchecked (all the answers have at least half their letters checked, however). I'm curious, does this change your solving experience? Have your say in the comments. Thanks for visiting, and enjoy the puzzle!