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1ACross is happy to present “Missing Instructions”, the latest offering from “Gussalufz“, exclusively for our readers.

The online interactive version can be completed and submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 28th November 2018.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leaderboard for 2018. Here’s the current leaderboard

Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Thursday, November 29, 2018.

Happy solving.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SAVE, TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ASKED AT THE END OF THE PUZZLE

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

Please look for the following as you solve this puzzle

(a) Letter with Nina’s shape.
(b) Number of the second word ending in Nina’s initials.
(c) Number of the first word ending in Nina’s initials.
(d) Nina.

JOIN the above ANSWERS  to fill the blanks in the phrase:

??? ???????? ???????? instructions

Do an internet search on this phrase to find a set of instructions.
Some of the instructions thus found can be used to fill in the three-letter parts that are left unclued in the wordplay in all the clues for words that do not touch Nina.

Only three such three-letter parts are used as fillers in all those clues. The nine letters from these three fillers can be jumbled to complete the following sentence:

Products that worked with the above used to have this ????: ????? inside. Can you find this??

Here’s the link to the interactive puzzle

Here’s a link to the PDF

By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

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