Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1107: Strategy By Nutmeg

[jim360]

Nothing too challenging but a very pleasant solve and well-worked theme. Thanks Nutmeg for this weekend's EV crossword entertainment.

[DocHH]

I quite agree jim360. Once 17,29 became apparent it all fell into place.

[dr b]

Ease of solution more than compensated for by cleverness of construction, especially the way the title alteration made everything work out. Good fun.

[novalis]

Agree with the various comments so far.

[EV_Solver]

Nice puzzle, very well put together, and a remarkably clever denouement. Amusing scheduling as well, when considering the theme of another very recent EV.

[devadolly]

We are getting rural as per EV compilers aren't we? Am just having a bit of trouble changing the title, maybe thinking too hard....................
How are you all? Are you still in the depths of a very nasty cold spell drb? We have some friends in Winnipeg who are not enjoying life at all at the moment, 59 below is a bit much.

[novalis]

Hi Devadolly!
It's a removal, not an addition.

[dr b]

dd, 55 yesterday, 8 this morning! Wish Mother Nature would make up her mind one way or the other.

[devadolly]

What from the title Novalis??
Don't envy you drb, you must have a whole lot of layers standing by to see what each day brings!

[novalis]

Hi Devadolly!

The removal of one element which is added to an answer to make the grid entry.

[devadolly]

Thanks Novalis, as soon as I looked at it again I saw it (& Himself about to start listening for feeble cries in the night!) altho' it is a term more used in the NE than around here, we tend to use the extra at 35a with a slightly different spelling.

[Christiana]

Hello all, putting in an appearance after several weeks absence - been catching up, after Christmas holidays, on previous EV's - and feel a little sheepish after finally completing the last two (though I'm still battling with 1105 'Loss of Life' -think I'm surviving it, just)
I loved the new title of the last one - so apt.