Update: May 2026

 It's been a busy week for me despite being the start of summer. I came up with a couple large yet clearly attainable ideas and managed to finish one and make firm progress on the other. The former will be posted here early in the week and the latter will be posted when it's complete. I've been finding that all these multi-step challenges are easier to approach when broken up and taken one step at a time.

The following puzzles were shared on 2/2 but I've been holding onto them since they feel too brief for a dedicated post.

Elision is a slightly controversial cryptic crossword technique in which a wordplay indicator and what it applies to are bundled together in a compound word. For example, "Evenhanded sum (3)" might be ADD because it's spelled by the even letters of handed. These two words are entire clues:

Introversion (4)

(First letter: O )

Newspaperman (6)

(First letter: S  )