Lumen, the concept of 'going to be baffled' makes complete sense to me: that feeling of impending doom that I'm going to try to work this out, but, no matter how hard I try, I will be none the wiser.
It's worth persevering Biggus.
The eight special clues are fairly straightforward, they just need to squeeze into the spaces which are one cell too small, using the 'advice' to help.