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Having aggregated the “votes” for the most favoured Inquisitor puzzles of 2012, I can now reveal the outcome:   No. Title Setter Date 1243 Paradise Kruger 18-Aug-12 1245 Barred Nutmeg 01-Sep-12 1257 Cover … Read more >>

Haven’t seen Glow-worm for nearly a year now, so welcome back. I’ll be hiking on Gran Canaria when this comes out, and won’t be checking any comments until I return.   Each of … Read more >>

Eclogue is a setter new to the Inquisitor, though I gather from Dave Hennings’ Crossword Database that they have featured in Magpie over the last couple of years. (I say “they” because a … Read more >>

I do tend to like Kruger‘s puzzles – no exception here. A pound sign ( £ ) appears in the central barred off cell of the grid. Hmm …   Corrections to single-letter misprints in … Read more >>

A gentle but enjoyable puzzle – with a learning element. Four consecutive letters to be removed from 24 clues before solving {novel}, the first letters of each group giving a Father’s {note capital} … Read more >>

Nine entries hinted at by definitions only – three groups of three. (Definitions refer to all or part of thematic material – we have been warned.) Two thematic references to be highlighted in … Read more >>

A fairly painless puzzle this week. The route from 1 to 38 [unclued] may be deduced from the letters that are ignored in the wordplay to 12 clues together with the other unclued … Read more >>

A 2.5 km walk in the rain, back along the Rochdale Canal, to get the papers, and 4 km to rejoin the narrow boat – dedication. (I’m filling in for Duncan this week, … Read more >>

Not so hard this week, but enjoyable for all that. And a deft handling of the thematic elements, so thanks to Charybdis for this puzzle.   The entry at 25a & a jumbling … Read more >>

Quite a lot going here, and a grade 4 workout. Five works by x to be discovered …   Original letters in down misprinted definitions {novel} spell out the first. Replacing x‘s initials … Read more >>

Augeas’s second Inquisitor puzzle, so an appropriate title? And forgive me if I’m brief – on a week’s break for Easter, just outside Hay-on-Wye.   Four items have something in common, three of … Read more >>

Answers to 16 clues have one letter removed (wherever it occurs) before entry; wordplay refers to the entry. The three unclued entries are of a kind with what these missing letters suggest. Ten … Read more >>

Four clues have a misprint, and the rest have a redundant word. A jumble of the corrections to the misprints form a word that is thematically associated with eight unclued entries, and the … Read more >>

Down answers are ‘affected’ before entry; Across clues are ‘affected’ before solving.  Either I got lucky, or this was easy (or both). Started with the down clues, as they are normal – solved … Read more >>