20 January 2020

Sounds Familiar

Tailored for CrOZworld and published there in January 2020.

Preamble


Seventeen answers require a familiar modification prior to entry.  Enumeration refers to entry lengths.

Solution




In accordance with the title of monthly publication CROZWORLD, every instance of OSS must be replaced by OZ in order for the solutions to fit the grid.  This puzzle is also a pangram.


Unfortunately, many solvers solvers missed the gimmick and merely replaced OSS with OS.  Therefore the adjudicator for CrOZworld decided that it would be unfair to mark these as incorrect.

Feedback


Theme was exposed early; actually helping with the subsequent solving. A pity about the obsolete words and uncommon abbreviations; but still good fun. Len Colgan

Tricky theme. Shakespearean; Scottish; obsolete and obscure words. Difficult clues. Little relief in this one but still a great puzzle. Andrew Patterson

What a challenge. Not sure what the title had to do with removing an S though. Lots of old/obsolete references made the task even more difficult. Very enjoyable. Ulla Axelsen

Excellent puzzle. I produced a lot of Zs but was wide awake throughout. Ian Thompson

You have slot 6 but it should be slot 7!! Marian Procter

I thoroughly enjoyed this one; many thanks. Julie Crowe

Well; that was different! Bit hard to check the spelling as well. Some tough clues didn't help but we got there in the end. We got a bit croz on occassions though. Richard Skinner

No use putting this one through the spell-checker! What a feat of compilation to find 17 words where OZ replaces OSS - on some cases with the Z a checked letter. Nea Storey




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