XWord Muggles Forum

Another fun Richard E. Maltby, Jr. variety cryptic. Got the magazine in the mail today and did the puzzle this afternoon. Just checking the Harper's website, I don't yet see the puzzle there -- the January puzzle seems to be the last one posted. Either way, you need to be a subscriber.

Still awaiting magazine....might be Tuesday at the earliest for me for either the magazine or website update.

And the website updated.
Downloaded the puzzle (as I still await the physical magazine)

I did this one in one sitting, which is unusual for me. Very enjoyable as always.

Agree...just wrapped it up myself.
Nice night cap this evening.

Wrapped this one today, lots of fun as always.. But could someone explain the wordplay on 1 Down to me please? Thanks!

Fun puzzle as always, but did anyone else notice a mistake/misspelling in one of the down entries? The last time I found a mistake in one of these was the month I won the drawing for the free 1-year Harper’s subscription, so keeping my fingers crossed!

I’m thinking you’re right, and that 14D is misspelled as clued. Perhaps Mr. Maltby meant to indicate that the entry was a variant, but didn’t. An oversight? Whatever the case, I wish you good luck with history repeating itself.

Going back to last month’s puzzle, Fantasyland — the one with those pesky blank squares. I figured out how to fill the blanks, but it turns out I missed a rather large fantasy land: Heaviside Layer, rising SW to NE on the diagonal. This was the largest hidden entry, and I completely missed it, filling the box in with “z” — completing “Oz,” begun by the “o” above and to the left. I wonder if that occurred to anyone else?
I think I completed Split Personalities correctly.