Never knowingly undersolved
Eclogue entertains us this week with a crossword that maybe should have appeared in July 2018! A 43 accompanied by 34 set off on a journey which is approximately mapped in the grid. … Read more >>
Kruger’s puzzle takes us into the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations this week. The preamble was fairly short and clear. It stated: Twelve clues contain a misprint in their definition. The correct letters, in … Read more >>
Is this the start of Ladies’ month? (About this time last year we had consecutive puzzles from Nutmeg, Chalicea, Vismut and Skylark.) Preamble: Corrections to be made to single letter misprints in … Read more >>
Ground Force by Ifor All clues bar five contain either a single or two consecutive extra letters to be removed, always from a single word, and leaving a shorter word. When read in … Read more >>
Tour de F__ce
Order has been restored. After 52 arduous legs – up mountains, into space, along rivers and across meadows – rolling along the road into the capital in the whatever-coloured jersey, is … Harribobs.
First, congratulations to Charybdis, one of my favourite setters, for his prescience in setting a clue concerning K2 which was in the news on the very day that it was published! 8D refers … Read more >>
Quixote makes a return to the Inquisitor series this week, 4 years and 5 months after his previous puzzle. Still that’s shorter than the gap back to the one before that which was … Read more >>
Haven’t seen Lato here for a year or so. Preamble: Thematic clues are listed in alphabetical order of their solutions which must be paired off and entered incompletely where they fit. Extra … Read more >>
Heavy Metal Band by Harribobs Entries run clockwise in a chain, starting at the peak of 1, with the last letter of each entry being the first of the next. Entries start … Read more >>
A Trivial Pursuit – II
Last year, as an exercise suggested by a solver who emailed to say that he was somewhat disgruntled by the lack of Literature themes, I broke down the Inquisitors of the Year into (quite loosely-defined) categories.
While writing this blog, I have just heard the bad news about the Christmas lockdown! As this will come out just after Christmas and just before New Year, may I wish everyone on … Read more >>
Kruger has set this week’s Inquisitor Note that the final word of the clue at 7 down was corrected from ‘reptile’ to ‘amphibian’ in the following week’s newspaper. The change … Read more >>
Ifor – can usually be relied upon for many fine clues, often with few redundant words in them. I’m looking forward to it. Preamble: Clues to one entry in each odd-numbered row … Read more >>
Queen of the North by Phi Several squares will need to contain multiple letters for the clue answers to fit – solvers should replace these with the same appropriate symbol. The solutions … Read more >>
Definitions in eight clues contain a misprint; correct letters spell a thematic location. Extra letters produced by wordplay in 26 further clues give a thematic quote, made by an individual whose name provides … Read more >>