Puzzle Description:

Frank might be sixteen (See Comment 1)

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on May 9, 2021

The description is a clue to the subject using cryptic crossword clue rules. This one doesn't tell you the length of the answer since the picture gives you an additional clue.

Every cryptic clue is made up of two parts; a definition, and a literal description of the answer using wordplay. They can be in either order (though not intertwined).

Here is a page describing some of the techniques:
http://gamesmagazine-online.com/cryptic-crosswords/
or an easier-to-read PDF:
http://gamesmagazine-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CrypticsGuide.pdf

After LL/CL
EL 3 c17 = r24 white
LL to finish

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

Square.

I believe you got it Gary!

Sorry, Gary. I screwed up by not thinking of that and putting in the length to rule it out.

That actually fits the cryptic clue, but the answer I'm looking for has 10 letters.

The picture fits the intended answer a bit better than yours, Gary.

Four square?

Close enough, Kristen. Foursquare meant having four equal sides since 1300* and has meant honest from the 1840s.

*(It is still used in the sense of four equal sides in the architectural style foursquare)

For the cryptic learners, This is a double definition

Frank (definition)
might be sixteen (a definition that's not as straight forward -- signified by "might be")

And the picture is four squares

Frank Lloyd Wright

Beautiful! Whatever it is.

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