Template:Did you know nominations/Printer's Devilry


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:12, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Printer's Devilry

 * ... that Printer's Devilry crossword puzzles were among Ximenes' most popular, even though they break Ximenes' rules of cryptic crossword setting? Source for "among most popular": "I was glad to read that the P.D. was so popular [...] I'll continue to keep the appearances of P.D. more frequent than those of other non-plain types. source. Source for "break Ximenes' rules": "This month we have a Printer’s Devilry puzzle, set by Chalicea. Instead of normal definition-and-wordplay clues, the solution has been removed from a certain sentence" source. See Derrick Somerset Macnutt for the definition of Ximenes rules as "wordplay + definition"
 * Reviewed: 1892 Legislative Session of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Created by Smurrayinchester (talk). Self-nominated at 16:58, 20 February 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg New enough, long enough, and with an interesting enough hook. Both the article and the hook are adequately sourced. QPQ done. Earwig found no copyright problems, only a properly attributed block quote. Good to go. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:27, 28 February 2017 (UTC)