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Ifor, known for tight but always very fair clueing, and often towards the challenging end of the spectrum.   Preamble: Ifor’s two collaborators X and Y have contributed all across clues bar those … Read more >>

Dysart hasn’t been here as a setter for a couple of years.   Preamble: Single letters missing from wordplay in each across clue (except the last) spell a line of verse (in ODQ) … Read more >>

I thought that we hadn’t seen Charybdis for quite a while, but in fact he was here last September.   Preamble: Twenty-one clues contain an extra word. When made runny, their initial letters … Read more >>

Ploy, the winner of the Shield for IQ Puzzle of the Year 2023, is back again.   Preamble: Some clues contain an extra word, to be removed before solving. From each word, take … Read more >>

Eclogue gives us a hexagonal jigsaw.   Preamble: Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their solutions, which must be inserted into the grid where they will fit, in straight lines in one … Read more >>

Quite looking forward to this puzzle from Nudd.   Preamble: Clues are normal but answers in every second row must be entered jumbled. The opening lines from a piece of work appear in … Read more >>

Hedge-sparrow flies back in for the festive(?) season.   Preamble: One letter must be removed from each of eight answers before entry so that the entry fits the available space; unjumbling these letters … Read more >>

Phi drops in with an early offering for Sankt Nikolaustag.   Preamble: Entries are real words, with some being the result of modifying clue answers (numbers in brackets reflect the space available in … Read more >>

Karla’s previous two puzzles each had a cinematic theme – we’d been promised that this next one wouldn’t have.   Preamble: In eleven “day-time” clues, part of the wordplay has received a treatment … Read more >>

eXternal – equally good when solo or doubled up with Serpent.   Preamble: In 14 Across clues a word must be removed before solving, identifying members of an organisation. In each Down answer, … Read more >>

Here is the last in the sequence of 5 debutants: Soup’s first puzzle for the Inquisitor though he has set puzzles for The Guardian.   Preamble: Rows and columns represent streets, with arrows … Read more >>

As I said in the main blog, Impressi◍n is Inkling’s only puzzle for the Inquisitor – I had read elsewhere on this site and others that Chris Dunn (Inkling) died last July, but … Read more >>

Inkling’s only puzzle for the Inquisitor –   Preamble: In nineteen down clues, wordplay leads to the answer with an extra letter. In clue order, these letters provide definitions to the two unclued … Read more >>

Jaques is back – previous Inquisitor puzzles were last year & the year before.   Preamble: Each clue contains a single misprint in its definition. The correct letters, in clue order, describe what … Read more >>