It is March and the lovely #EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's prompt: "planet".
"Planet" is an interesting word: if you strip off the surrounding P and T, the remaining letters form a new word, "lane." Can you write words in the blanks below to form new words? If you get it right, the circled letters should spell out what the P and T do.
| Metropolis newspaper The Daily… | P L A NⒺT | Metropolis news reporter Lois |
| USA peculiar, bad clown president | T_ _◯P | Peculiar, bad (cryptic crossword slang) |
| Beer brand | P_◯_T | Muscles covered by a beer belly |
| Today's #EnigMarch _ is "planet" | P◯_ _ _T | Play around, perhaps with a puzzle idea |
| Austrian singer family | T_◯_P | Hip-hop focused on speech |
| Discworld author with some swagger | P_ _ _◯_ _ _T | Swagger, perhaps indecorous |
| Rush drummer Neil | P◯_ _T | 👂️ Drummer's most important organ? 👂️ |
Hints: rot13'd:
- Gur jbeqf' frpbaq yrggref ner Y nf va cYnarg, E, N, E, E, E, R
- Gur jbeqf' frpbaq-gb-ynfg yrggref ner R nf va cynaRg, Z, F, C, C, G, E
Solution, rot13'd:
cynaRg / Zrgebcbyvf arjfcncre Gur Qnvyl… / Zrgebcbyvf arjf ercbegre Ybvf gehZc / HFN pybja cerfvqrag / Crphyvne, onq (pelcgvp pebffjbeq fynat) cnOfg / Orre oenaq / Zhfpyrf pbirerq ol n orre oryyl cEbzcg / Gbqnl'f #RavtZnepu _ vf "cynarg" / Sebyvp geNcc / Nhfgevna fvatre snzvyl / Uvc-ubc sbphfrq ba fcrrpu cengPurgg / Qvfpjbeyq nhgube jvgu fbzr fjnttre / Fjnttre, creuncf vaqrpbebhf cRneg / Ehfu qehzzre Arvy / 👂️ Qehzzre'f zbfg vzcbegnag betna? 👂️
