1ACross is happy to present “An Addagram a day”,  from “Unstoppable Kums”, exclusively for our solvers. Please read the instructions very carefully.

The grid has 5 sets of “Addagrams”, indicated by A to E at the beginning of each clue.

An Addagram set is a collection of words of lengths n, n+1, n+2 and so on, where a bigger word is an anagram of the smaller word and an additional letter.

An example of such a set is: set, lest, tales, staple, plaster. All the clues which are part of the Addagram sets have Enums hidden but will fit in one of the slots within that Addagram’s set.

In the other clues which have the correct Enum, the wordplay leading to the answer either has an extra letter  or is short of a letter (for example: the wordplay might lead to “placid” or “laid”, but the answer would be plaid and the Enum would be correctly indicated as 5).

The online interactive version can be completed and submitted by anyone who wishes to participate, on or before EOD 9th October 2019.. All those who submit entries have a chance to enter our leader board for 2019.

Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Thursday, October 10, 2019.

Happy solving.

Here’s the link to the interactive puzzle

Here’s a link to the PDF