Discovered in a Christmas Stocking Day 31

[loyseofverlaine.livejournal.com]

Greetings and Happy New Year to all!

My muse having deserted me mid-story (I think the poor thing is still trapped in the security check line at Heathrow), I've put together a cryptic puzzle for you to solve in the best tradition of CI5.

In the maze of letters below are (If I've done this correctly) forty words relating in some way to The Professionals. They can be people, objects or places. The letters can run horizontally, vertically or diagonally, forwards or backwards. Note 1: I've kept to canon only. Note 2: there may be some random ordinary words produced by the process of making the puzzle - this is the biggest one I've ever done. I've tried to weed out the background noise, but I've found some always slip through.

BSL, can you give me a heads-up on when it will be okay to post the solution.




G J L D F W R S M A C K L I N X C N T R E P L O B T F
W C A H L K B O W L I N G A L L E Y E P Y F D W C X A
W O O L W I C H F E R R Y R U K F H D Q V Y E L W O C
A S H O T G U N T O M M Y V F B J G I T R F L S B J H
T L G V N T E I S K Q A C N P E H T R E N T S N A J I
K R T W B U L C T K A M J D Y T G E G A O T F L R P V
Y O W S V P R Q C A P R I L H T R A M B V M H I K X E
W H B V E S Z L J E I E X K A Y C S C C N E B H L U S
T K N F Y R B Z O G M P D R N U A P R F C E Y B N L R
I O B D H M R S Y S V T W I A M C E I E B L C A W A E
N J S O W F C V H N I O K S T U H F C D O Q B Z R L V
K I S B D A H C E L N N R S X E T G K E L L E R O D A
E W P H N I B F O S L E I C M K D Y E V O D N F K P R
R L B V X A E E T M V R U H B M A L T S C O T C H Y S
B Y M H D L W U J I H P K B S D K W A V R Y Q N O N L
E D K R I F L E L C B N D W J O K G B H C L P C A I T
L Y O V T L K G B R S N R C L I G T W K N E C A C T F
L T E D U M D U M K F N A L M P V Y J C S Q L C T R T
L B N V I N C R W F M P O I C R E S E R V O I R I A B
W B O Q N L S P G J X R B I S J M D I R F C O A O M N
F R H E G X N P Z T S I E M H S I F L E G N A T N Y U
N O R T O N R F D S U P L K I J T B A I P R W V S R X
P L G D E O F K I Y S F Z U R M M V I R Y O R L Q R J
R T C X B W I W J F A A Z K O L A J W B C H S V U A P
I K G P O R S F C U N V U R W K R A K I B S P L A B O
T R V K M J L F C R S O P N C X R A I T P L B R D C I
K I N G B I L L Y H W O G S E R I U M S A S D K U J T
T V F K R G S C Q A N N I E N J K D I S W F L E M M P
R A K T J F B N D S A U W P K G A D B F O X H O L E S
A S T R A T T O N F O U R P C L F I H Q C D Y P P L O

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - you had me worried when you said there was a "cryptic puzzle" under the cut - I've always been rubbish at cryptic clues! But (in my language) it's a wonderword! Phew! Wonderwords I can totally do! *g*

Also - I see StrattonFour! *g*

Solution-wise, if you can hang on until 7th January, we can put up answers to things then, or another option is to do what probodie rather cleverly did, which was post the answers on her own lj whenever she wanted! Either way is good for me - a link to the answers in your original post would be good if you want to do the latter, or just let me know if you want to post them on the 7th, and that'll be good too. *g*

I shall print this out later, and look forward to a cosy morning with it tomorrow! Thank you!