Ptolemy Soter (Alexander the Great's favorite general, no relation to the astronomer) initiated one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the lighthouse on the island of PHAROS. It's so cool that I get to write a blog where I can have opening sentences like that one.
Today's Wednesday puzzle (answers) seems to be only the second by Edward Sessa. I loved his solfeggio debut which I have previously blogged about in my Crosswords and God essay and this one had a nice gimmick too — disappearing ink. I hope we hear more from Mr. Sessa.
I was fairly confused by the cross of "Shot with lots of English" (MASSE) with "Dispatch boat" (AVISO) but they're both reasonably common puzzle words having appeared now 27 and 9 times respectively in my database. I better just learn them. Maybe masse will give me the excuse I need to learn billiards.
Cephalopod is such a great word, isn't it? It sounds exactly like what octopi looks like.