Puzzle Notes

Hey folks! We're back with another classic cryptic for you -- a challenging one by our good pal Neville Fogarty. Neville, I assume, wants what we all want: to one day transcend this plane and become an all-seeing sphere of pure energy, but until then, he's just going to keep teaching college math and writing puzzles. If you'd like to solve more of his puzzles (as who would not), the New Yorker's cryptic archive is still available, and he also contributed a crossword to this year's all-killer-no-filler Lollapuzzoola.

Next time around, we'll have three bite-size mini cryptics! Till then --

-- Francis (and the AVCX cryptic crew)