And the query  you the inscrutable reader might submit is this,

 and others ensnared by this sinusoidal narrative.

What is this obstacle, conundrum, lob sided neck pain  weighing these

phenomenal brains  down.

“The Brain, IT HASN’T LET ME DOWN so far.

I sometimes YODEL when I want to enliven, think of my FAVOURITE SISTER and our favourite FOODS, TREATS.

And is this wretched thing which we my sister and colleagues enthuse about.

“CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS.

There is this thing …. I hear rustling and galloping about this nature park residing in our megalopolis.”

Brainy Brax stymied.

It must have been rather PUZZLING. Hadn’t a clue what to do or solve this infernal plight 

Despite the hints.”

A clue which read as follows

“Lively Species Spotted Where Profuse Growth Is.”

Tiny number of words.

Three words with number  structure 5-2-5

Braxtyn polymath veered between a distorted kaleidoscope of twinkling alternative angles  

and wild notions of how an ecosystem furnished with riotous tinges could be germane to a riddle.

Why did Braxtyn cast one of his suspecting tidal wave expressive eyes on his parents shifty sheepish demeanor?

Out of exasperation he caterwauled:

🎩🎩I’LL HAVE ANOTHER GO AT SPECIES IN THREES.🎩🎩

Whatever!

This crossword contest wasn’t  run of the mill regular  and  Braxtyn was acutely aware of his parents mediocrity in that province.

“Is this Son-Et-Lumiere?

There’s a tumble dryer torsion tone in my head …. species emitting every imaginable clamour.”

Brax once more.

Was he a  SPOILED BRAX with his fetishes.

GROAN.

He, the genius in a concatenation of recreations   with his sister who was aptly named BLESSING.

The person, Braxtyn,  

conceded his life began in earnest the auspicious day of his sister’s  birth.

But Blessing often alluded to things as a CURSE.

Her monumental majestic aura had this silver tide infectious ripple.

It purified stifled atmospheres.

“Blessed can you shed your chakra illumination on this bug infested bedamned clue.

My  skull is in a seesaw, almost playground plank.”

In a parallel orbit is the most succinct  portrayal  of their spruce home  with its intrusive yet innocuous  pets winking, blinking in a fly by day and night regimen. 

“Are there creatures on the prowl or winging  outside?”

Blessing  quipped.

“Something concocted in relation to reverberations outside.

Plastic. Mother and father have never elaborated but kept this shroud.

They nodded in agreement.

“On another tack our  elders had this sneaky sheep countenance  that gets my GOAT.!

Please ignore puerile synonym.

It was if they were eluding, escaping from some convoluted tangle.” 

Blessing fraught with an electric spark  smirk.

“Oh do you think they know or they have suspected….

NTHING!  Yet I mean.”

Awesome the nickname audacious gave her husband of so many years

Audacious kept going.

“We have only just arrived  in anticipation but this lodge has a stultifying reek.

But maybe it’s the aftermath of our long trek.”

Awesome often excogitated  about dice spins and upshots.

“Did Braxtyn who is highly in  tune with other's vibrations  not even COTTON ON.”

THE FABRIC OF HER CHEW ON.

Above line might add MEAT to this 

whirligig of a who did what and when

As for the clue setter Sneaky Tweaky, well there are quite a few rules regarding secrecy and sleights of hand that clog his files and scruples if they possess any!

Included in the mix was a broad information probe  which is quite tough but there was only a limited timeframe.

A submission date that pressurised participants.

This competition  also involves  identifying pets in a visual ambiguous pencil scratch panel.

“And don’t we grasp the brass and brazen irony of that  fiendish trap trick and trip challenge as a whole.”

Meanwhile back at Braxtyn and Blessed’s domicile the volume grew exponentially..

“ I sense something peculiar about the home of my formative years.”

Braxtyn assembling a total electric charge intercity interlink array of heterogeneous notions.

“Things seem so switched on and plastic.”

But coexistence was the key to every door in this address where envelopes and letters had this STAMP OF AUTHENTICITY.

The heart of the rural and the urbanity of the plural tendencies had in situ  roots where these nimble wit analysts were fostered.

A gradual dawning accumulated as a streamed asset tiered with suspicion had this warped stealth of a halloween thriller.

How both Braxtyn and Blessing approached clues could be as unique as they were  but even those who had tonnes and tanks of  IQ loads 

“Have that feeling that our parents were shifty whilst we were attempting that clue…..”

Blessed argued and Braxtyn stared.

“Awesome, this holiday has been an incorrigible bore from its inception.

Guest house, lodge, boarding house, is dull down to the tiniest detail.”

Audacious did mention to her husband.

They had no alternative but to impinge on themselves and the proprietor by fabricating some tall tale and they did.

The usual mysterious emergency call from of course a fictitious fallen family member who were in a quandary and by some strange coincidence had no alternative etc.

The drift of that etc and ad infinitum.

But to resume this baroque and byzantine saga… 

“Oh  shrieks.”  Blessing had an incandescent flash about the pets.

“Am  I hallucinating …. did I remember as a child some … vague…. something like a part falling.”

Then her mind went blank.

 And some more bleats and baaahs on the out-of-doors

Once more returning to Awesome and Audacious as this fiendish tale unfurls without becoming bogged down in entanglement.

“Well, sneaky let us in on the answers to the clues.

No one was  apprised of the substantial contacts between us over a protracted period. 

We kept  a hush hush  low profile.”

Audacious in a bearing of  resignation.

When they returned they made contact with the clue setter and he expressed regret for the shabbiness and disappointment of their saturday and sunday escape.

“I’d like to bounce this proposition off you. 

Maybe certain rules and regulations were bent.”

Sneaky tweaky said.

“I have another dwelling some distance into hazier habitats at the urban ring fence..

Very few folks  have even the dimmest and slimmest know of it.”

Sneaky Tweaky expanded.

“It was a freak stroke of good fortune. Has porcelain and flexi replicas of pets  but( casting a shrewdie) I’d hardly be the only one to have such an avid avocation. Beware the bits and pieces.”

Awesome quivered and in turn looked at audacious as if they sensed  other people knew  about what others sensed.

Would their be a fall off or fall out in any conceivable event.

“Spend a week there at my expense as compensation.”

The couple were elated  and could if they wished  entice  their children with certain mysterious caveats.

They did of course just that.

Sneaky tweaky put it to the parents about the results which should have been published.

“Don’t know if they Braxtyn and Blessing have figured it out yet?

Or the other tie-breaker.”

The answer was GOATS IN TREES.  !!!

And the quiz related to a type of goat embedded in an indistinct patch.

It emerged  the son and daughter didn’t do crosswords  that often.

“Still can’t  decipher this abomination of puzzle, Blessing.”

Braxtyn doomed to failure for once. 

“Me neither BRAX.

“On a different tack do

you recall the time we played in trees when we were young.

The things and creatures we found up there!”

At that point three goats appeared at the open door in  overt synchronicity.

And Blessing put  the nearest book ironically about animals  over her eyes and gulped air in swathes.

“it’s an unsolved mysterious about this episode.

And both of us haven’t got a clue what’s going on.”

She was speaking as she looked out at the nearest green tree and the goats seemed to be heading its way!!! 

And on the way she saw and gasped when one goat’s legs fell off!

A discordant squeak ensued from one of the three.

So that’s the hair-raising feeling you had, Braxtyn at every stage.”

Blessing whose hands shook.

“The Plastic nature of the pets and our parents kept that from us because they couldn’t afford authentic  creatures.”

Awesome and Audacious and Sneaky Tweaky also had one outstanding matter to settle.

“How much do we owe you now, Sneaky for that expert on plastic moulding you recommended to sculpt the medley of pets that our offspring seemingly never twigged?”

The clue setter said ;

“Do you wish me to organise another contest, a debt clearing contest?”

Sneaky has a wry grin!

Did I hear you say the word TWIG!

Maybe that might be BRANCHING OUT TOO FAR.

In another sheltered scene  Braxtyn conceded to Blessing.

“Wonder what the answer to that clue was?

Our folks could be asked or get a back issue of the paper!”

Observed clinically.

Blessing retorted.

“Wouldn’t we be considered dumb?”

Immediately  Braxtyn replied.

“Now Blessing, that would be A CURSE!

“No, maybe that MIGHT GET YOUR MY GOATS….IN THREES

Blessing made a quip. 

“Perhaps we should have seen the signs and been more CLUED IN from the start! “

Dedicated to the  most gifted, beautiful genius in the world.

The lady who has inspired every step of my life