High Stakes

The preamble to today’s puzzle is captured over here in our commemoration of our editor Andy Yingst, which may help answer the question “where are the instructions?!”

It's been a busy spring — if you didn't see, we made our debuts in both The Browser and Cryptic Crossweird, and we also put out a small-if-not-simple free variety puzzle.

Thanks to Andy Stilp and John Sams for their test solves and of course to Andy for their edits. Andy’s new variety cryptic publication The Gnomon publishes more free preview puzzles next Monday.