This Puzzle is Just Another Regular Cryptic

[chazzie]

Entering not meaning anagram - but putting into the word - thats what I was thinking.

Yep - still looking at the other two - been googling Ethical Woodrow's Seven and getting Seven steps re morals.....

[chazzie]

OK for new clue 1 how about BLUEPRINT - blue = down, print = sketch - blueprint= publication?

or print= publication, and blueprint = sketch

[Bunnylump]

Yes, I think you are right, I'd say sketch would be the def.

[Bunnylump]

Just had a horrible thought. Could PRIME CLUE AND WORD mean we need to take all the answers to the clues with prime numbers and make one final clue? Although that would be monumentally unlikely looking!

AROUND PISTOL USHER CHINCHILLA NITROGEN (and then the one we can't get)

I could believe "around pistol usher" as in around something like gun, put...but then chinchilla would just be ridiculous.* Nitrogen would be feasible for an N. But as we can't get 13 then we would be stuck anyway.

*But just because of chinchilla I think this is almost certainly rubbish.

[chazzie]

I had been thinking along those lines - and also dismissed due to chinchilla...

I also wondered whether is was just the first clue - which has AND in it - and wondered whether the answer was BLUE!

[chazzie]

oh just had a thought re the final clue (no 13).

could the answer be PLAYWRIGHT - which gives us the W - and also fits with if we have Dramatic author as the def

it could be SPORT = PLAY, ethical = RIGHT and then the seventh letter of WOODROW (W) inside

thinking more and more this is the answer

[Bunnylump]

Yes, that looks good!

There is also one answer which is PRIMER but I don't know if that is relevant. In which case the answer could be first-rate.

[Scurra]

Could PRIME CLUE AND WORD mean we need to take all the answers to the clues with prime numbers and make one final clue?

You're just missing one last a-ha. But you are very, very close.

[Bunnylump]

Aaahhh, got it, well, perhaps I have.

Use the (prime) number

[Scurra]

I think you just might have. Good work!

[chazzie]

OK please share

[Bunnylump]

I'll do it in stages which you can uncover as you need to. We were so very nearly there.

1. We were right that we needed to use the clues with prime numbers (in order)

2.You are looking at the clues rather than the answers.

3. Use the numbers of the clues as an index.

4. Make a new clue

5 clue is (2- second word of original whole clue) Messed (3) up (5) her (7) apps (11) maybe (13) seven

6. Hint for clue - "messed up" = anagram indicator, "maybe"= definition, "seven" means number of letters in the answer.

7. ANSWER: PERHAPS

Thank you for all your help, Chazzie, would never have got those last ones! x

[chazzie]

Wow - thanks.. great puzzle

[Scurra]

It was a great puzzle - really well-constructed and clever, with every stage going in logical sequence and with completely fair a-ha moments. This was one of the puzzles in the Hunt this year that I wished I had written.

[Bunnylump]

It was a really clever puzzle. Shame about the Pokemon though.