Help please with the (end) game.
Full grid, lost letters from the acrosses (1st and 3rd are identical in the 7 sets of 3, middle ones vary???), extra words from the downs.....have guessed at a few synonyms of the pairs but getting nowhere fast....
Professor,
I don't understand instruction two:
Consecutive pairs.....dialect usage.
Does it mean Clue 1 and 4 have in synonyms in clues or in answers.
I have entered many down answers.
I see that in 1a, you can drop letters 3 and 4 before entry. In 4a, drop the last two for entry. But what's the rationale?
Yes, the pairs in order each share one synonym - the first 2 pairs are pretty obvious but the second two each have obscure synonyms.
The two names are -
P??(+)S???
P???(+)I??
I could spell them out if this doesn't do the trick.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, hankir - the 'consecutive... dialect' part of the preamble only refers to the down entries extra words (that's what I've tried to hint at for professorplum13).
Only 2 letters drop from 1a - the letter counts given are for the original answers (was that just a typo?).
I still can't see the synonyms ... maybe i have the wrong extra words?
standard/score ...possibly PAR?
inhabitants/disciples
tip/settle
encloses/dwelling places
I doubt you'll know the names or the 'game', hankir - but if you get the names you'll get the rest from wiki... I'll give it a little while longer and then spell them out if you're still stuck.