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ADDITIONAL INFO Grateful thanks, as always, to test-solvers Eric Berlin, Dave Shukan, Roger Barkin, and Scott Weiss for proofing, testing, and making countless perceptive and useful comments on this set of puzzles; they're much improved because of each of them. Thanks also to Foggy Brume and joon pahk for their generosity in providing prizes. Special thanks to Max Chemtov for creating the spreadsheet versions of the puzzles. In all of these puzzle sets, I enjoy exploring puzzle types invented by other creators; for this set I would like to acknowledge my indebtedness to Patrick Berry and certain NYT puzzle creators. When you have the overall solution, for a slot on the Leaderboard. If a team, please include everyone's name and/or nom as desired. Any FAQs or errata will appear here, so check back if something seems to be amiss. I will post any issues affecting solving as soon as possible, with credit to whoever brings them to my attention, updating puzzle pdfs as needed. Typos and minor issues not affecting solving will be corrected at my discretion without notice. After hints and solutions are posted, the final meta answer will be confirmable with the answer checker. Thanks to Michael Tang and Keith Jackson for catching typos! ANCIENT ARMOR - Clue 61A has been adjusted (thanks David Glasser!) THE NÄKKE - The first Letter Bank enumeration should be 8, not 7 (thanks Jonah Ostroff!) THE MAELSTROM - The clue for Row 3 should have a "2 wds" tag (thanks Lila Goldenberg!) THE NÄKKE - Not an erratum, but https://puzzlers.wtf/ is a useful alternative to the NPL link provided. "Freewheeling" refers to phrases, sometimes nonsensical, without dictionary nature. In a Dropout, a word can be removed from the juncture of two other words with the remainder forming an additional word; e.g. BEA(VER / MIN)GLE = VERMIN, BEAGLE, BEAVER, MINGLE. Similarly, the Double-Cross should follow the pattern AB, CD, AD, CB. Unfortunately the NPL guide contradicts itself on this in one location (thanks Alex St. Claire!) THE HAFGUFA - On the spreadsheet version, there should be no light blue line to the left of the last square in the bottom row (thanks Sam Freund!) RETURN TO PUZZLES |