Inquisitor

The Ace of Hearts is an infrequent setter of Inquisitor puzzles, this being only the sixth since the first one appeared in 2016.       The preamble was fairly short and clear.  … Read more >>

PINK is back for this centenary puzzle.   Preamble: Answers to several clues lose a thematic word or abbreviation to yield the relevant entries, which are also words. Lengths indicate the number of … Read more >>

  An Alternative Guide to Wonderland by Phi Most clues define the answer that is entered but have wordplay that ignores up to four letters of that answer. The cells containing these ignored … Read more >>

Kruger is one of our regular setters. Hard but fair is his normal offering, so I look forward to this one. Clues are given in alphabetical order of their answers which must be … Read more >>

Ifor has been setting Inquisitor crosswords since 2011 and his puzzle themes vary widely, I have blogged quite a few of Ifor’s puzzles in the first half of the 2010s, but this is … Read more >>

Gila has given us some cracking puzzles in the past. I wonder what’ve we got here.   Preamble: Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their answers, which must be entered in the … Read more >>

Sign Up Here! by Ploy A group of two or three letters must be removed from each of ten clues, to form new clues to be solved. In the remaining clues, the wordplay … Read more >>

It’s a year since Augeas last set an Inquisitor puzzle – the one about Aunt Ada Doom and Cold Comfort Farm. It had a very simple preamble. This one was more complex. It … Read more >>

Poat is a setter who doesn’t appear very often.  There has been over two years between Poat puzzles recently.       The preamble this week was fairly short – Clashes arise in … Read more >>

It’s another in the Clue Two sequence. How will eXternal follow up the Pac-Man maze?   Preamble: The unclued top row gives a thematic location. An answer to one down clue per column … Read more >>

  Death Wish by Serpent The wordplay in 12 clues leads to an extra letter; solvers must use these letters to complete the unclued entries. Each of the remaining clues contains a string … Read more >>

Well, the heart of the blogger sinks a bit when the pseudonym (or, as Sam Costa used to say, peusodonym!) of our esteemed editor appears as the setter. I wasn’t disappointed. No rubric … Read more >>

This week’s Inquisitor set by Vismut is entitled Whodunnit, so we have a mystery on our hands.         The preamble told us that each down clue has an extra letter … Read more >>

Phi is a rather prolific setter here, about 4 puzzles a year of late – many more in other outlets.   Preamble: The two unclued entries are to be unjumbled to form thematic … Read more >>

  Observation by Chalicea Nine consecutive clues contain an extra word that is not required for the solution. Read in clue order, the initial letters of those words will identify the observation that … Read more >>