Missing

[cinelli]

What is missing?

AD---CT
CONC---
DIS---
HOR---LAY
TRO---
LI---OAT
N---HT
OUTS---T
P---IKA
SI---AR
TUR---ER

Cinelli

[swill453]

---EP

?

(I confess I deleted an earlier wrong answer).

Scott.

[dealtn]

---EP

?

(I confess I deleted an earlier wrong answer).

Scott.

yes, give me about another 8 weeks or so of this lockdown and I will hopefully celebrate solving it by this with a sweet, possibly minty, syrup drink. Cheers!

[ReformedCharacter]

Spoiler:




























It must be: JUL

[cinelli]

Well solved, Scott. And very quick too.

I continue to look for really hard puzzles, those which may take days to solve in this strange world we live in.

Cinelli

[swill453]

Well solved, Scott. And very quick too.

The first word just jumped out at me and gave a big hint, after that it was just methodical. A different word at the top might have taken longer.

Scott.

[UncleEbenezer]

Am I allowed to invoke my mother's language (Swedish)?

'Cos that gives us a particularly concise answer ---. A word that also exists in English, but is spelt differently and is slightly archaic.

Come to think of it, in English, ---IAN would be particularly appropriate.

[9873210]

Well solved, Scott. And very quick too.

I continue to look for really hard puzzles, those which may take days to solve in this strange world we live in.

Cinelli

Find an even number greater than 2 that is not the sum of two primes. Or show that none exists.

[UncleEbenezer]

Oh my. Is that really how you spell Goldbach?

[cinelli]

Find an even number greater than 2 that is not the sum of two primes. Or show that none exists.

Is this one of those mathematical conjectures for which there is a million dollar prize? If so, and if someone here manages a proof, I suggest 10% could go to the Lemon Fool and the rest to the NHS.

Cinelli

[GrahamPlatt]

Correction. Not understood the question.

[dealtn]

Well solved, Scott. And very quick too.

I continue to look for really hard puzzles, those which may take days to solve in this strange world we live in.

Cinelli

Find an even number greater than 2 that is not the sum of two primes. Or show that none exists.

Well 4 is the sum of 2+2 or 1+3, both of these sums only contain 1 prime.