Ev - Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1120 - Curious Cocktail By Rustic

[jim360]

Any, with that, we say a final farewell to Rustic's crosswords. This one had a clever idea applied perhaps as much as is possible in a grid this size. I only finally twigged the idea when I'd tried one way of modifying the answers to fit them into the grid, and another solver had tried a different idea, and I realised that both were needed! Kept its secret right to the end. Thanks Rustic.

[EV_Solver]

I enjoyed this - not too difficult, and fair like all of Rustic's puzzles. It took me a while to work out the method of entry, but then things fell nicely into place. Am I the only person who thinks that crossword editors are probably often in need of such a curious cocktail?

[novalis]

Agree with the comments thus far. Now back to last week's. I am still short of three of the four seven letter and three of the four nine letter answers and that does not help with fitting the rest into the grid.

[LifesABeach]

Nearly there, but not quite finished yet.
Have put my pedant's hat on again.
Anyone agree 6D should say "rough fight" rather than "rough flight"?

[jim360]

I did wonder about that myself (flight-> fight). Possibly one of the famous EV errors that occurred so often in the past. Rather fewer of them these days thank goodness.

[DocHH]

Hello eveyone,
Enjoyed this weeks offering, but am not sure I would particularly enjoy the resultant cocktail. I will stick to my normal preprandial of a Glenmorangie!