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#1: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Jan 30, 2018

big wig?

mondo blondo

hair appair-ant

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Big wig it is. But I like mondo blondo, too, and lol @ Kristen's comment. Yeah, I thought the same thing as I was solving my own puzzle! It was like, "Wow, this is weird."

EL C1
IEL R31
EL C30
C8: Regardless of which way the 2 goes, it starts either a 5 clue in R1 or a 4 clue in R3. Only a 1 clue remains in each of C9-11, so everything left except R1&3 in those columns must be white.
C24: You can use the same logic as you used for C8 to determine that everything remaining in C21-23 except R1&3 is white.
IEL C12

hairy fairy

That would be a most interesting picture, wouldn't it? A hairy fairy...

It's been done. See puzzle 29507. It was in a series of hinky pinkies from last year.

So I see. I even solved that one. My hair is halfway there.

Although I had in mind more of the Cousin It look...

Hairy arms and legs and a bristly chin would be funny, but hard to do in pbn.

Yeah, I wasn't going to attempt it anyway. I don't have the time to figure it out right now, and by the time I do, I won't care anymore.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

Here is the method I used. This is not an optimized method of solving this, merely the way I first did it.

ll/cl gets all the blue and most of the bottom rows.

el 15 places it.
ll gets the left quarter of the puzzle.
two-way logic 2 c8: whether it goes in r1 or r3 the 1 in c9 will be triggered. So the rest of the column r4-23 must be white.
ll
interior el 6 r22 - if it were to go all the way left, there'd be no room for the 2 in r24. So r22c10 must be white
ll
el 8 c30 = r1-10 w
el 5 r1 = c29 w
hmm, back to the two-way in c8. Since there's a 5 in r1 and a 4 in r3 and only one 1 each in c10 & c11, the rest of those rows must be white, so c10r2, c10r4-19, & c10r24 and c11r2, c11r4-19, & c11r22 must be white. This could have been done at the same time as the previous two-way.
ll
el 5 c29 = r1-6 w
el 3 r31 places it.
ll does right side
el 5 r20 = c19 w
ll
two-way logic 2 c24 whether it goes up or down, it will trigger the last remaining clue in c21, c22, and c23 (each is a 1). That means the rest of those columns must be white.
So c21r2, c21r4-7, & c21r12-19 and c22r2, c22r4-7 & c22r12-19 and c23r4-7 & c23r12-19 are white.
ll
el 2 r19 places it.
ll to finish it

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I wish I'd read the comments before I posted. Wombat's method works fine.

Thanks, Joe. :) Lol @ #15.

Funny one

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