Telestichal enigma
A telestichal enigma is like an acrostical enigma (which see), except that the part-words overlap the ends of the lines (by at least two letters), not the starts.
TELESTICHAL ENIGMA (6)
- I don’t know the name of this “flower from Gaza”;
It goes in this square (it’s a form, not a plaza). - Forgive the transition: I’ve nothing but boos
For the strange obscure words that the formist must use.
When I don’t know the words, and I don’t have a clue,
What National Puzzlers’ form can I do?
=Tahnan
The solution: Part-words: aza|lea (“flower”), se|gue (“transition”); answer = league (“what National Puzzlers form”).
The telestichal enigma was reintroduced to the NPL by Dart with information on past use from Trash.