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Northern Wellness Digest
Puzzles
30 August 2026 · Compiled daily since 1873 · Solutions tomorrow
The Chronicle Cryptic
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Across
- Bothy door left open for the wrong walker (7)
- Storm batters pier — mind how you go (6)
- Peat cutter loses direction in the mist (3)
- Cryptic setter retires without explanation (9)
- See 16 Across (9)
- Caravan reverses into national park after delay (3)
- Dry stane dyke holds despite everything (6)
- Tote bag awarded to no one in particular (6)
- The haar, as before, unannounced (3)
- Message from the Colonel scrambled in transmission (8)
- One in a kilt upset the piper at last (9)
- Tea goes cold while the weather is not discussed (3)
- Lighthouse keeper’s short signal, repeated (6)
- Timetable revised again — see previous revision (6)
Down
- Bagpipes heard faintly across the loch at dawn (3)
- Gulls audibly divided over chips (11)
- Public toilet found open on the north coast, remarkably (5)
- Distillery’s output cut by half, spirits low (7)
- Standing stone moved slightly, say locals (10)
- Left in the layby, a photograph develops (5)
- Heather turns purple about the misplaced sign (11)
- Puffin’s odd habit picked up by ringers (9)
- Sea eagle circles nothing, then settles (7)
- Ferry departs on time, reportedly — a first (5)
- Great skua interrupts a quiet picnic, characteristically (5)
- Coolcation ruined by unexpected warmth inside (3)
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Fill the grid so that every row, column and box contains the digits 1 to 9. There is one solution.
Entries: post completed grids to Puzzles, The Caledonian Chronicle. The first correct entry drawn wins a Chronicle tote bag. The editor’s decision is final.
Yesterday’s solutions
Across
1 MOFFAT, 4 DUNOON, 8 TAY, 9 STORNOWAY, 11 PITLOCHRY, 12 AYR, 13 LAUDER, 15 FORFAR, 17 ESK, 18 ARDROSSAN, 20 MILNGAVIE, 21 RUM, 23 CULLEN, 24 BEAULY
Down
1 DEE, 2 HELENSBURGH, 3 LEITH, 5 TARBERT, 6 PRESTWICK, 7 TROON, 10 PORTPATRICK, 11 INVERNESS, 14 MALLAIG, 16 BRORA, 19 ELLON, 22 BEN
| 3 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 9 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
| 8 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| 1 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
| 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
The Chronicle regrets that no correct solution to Cryptic No. 4,912 was received.