Inquisitor

eXtent returns this week.  I blogged the last puzzle from this setter back in January.  That puzzle also featured some blanks in the grid during the solving process.       The  preamble … Read more >>

A third puzzle from Penumbra, averaging about one a year.   Preamble: All clues contain a word that must be removed before solving. Initial letters of those words, in clue order, give a … Read more >>

Now You See Me by The Ace of Hearts One letter must be deleted from each clue before solving. These letters in clue order spell out a quotation from a film. Six thematic … Read more >>

Ifor is a frequent setter, this is his 31st puzzle and his third this year. None of them is easy! Each down clue contains a letter that must travel up or down within … Read more >>

It’s been over a year since we last saw an Opsimath Inquisitor.  This is Opsimath’s fourth puzzle in the series, but the first that I have blogged.  Kenmac blogged all of the previous … Read more >>

Nudnix – a setter new to me.   Preamble: The theme involves two events – one possibly apocryphal – that happened on two (unrelated) visits. In the first, 1dn travelled East to 20; … Read more >>

Write-off (29) by Xanthippe All clues are normal but two symmetrically positioned clue answers must be entered jumbled. The first number at the end of each clue is the entry length. The second … Read more >>

A long complex rubric with a coda by the editor. The solutions to both grids are identical except for the three pairs of thematic entries in the silver cells; other down answers may … Read more >>

Triton returns to a previous character when his friend, the setter Andy Lemon, is kidnapped again.  Andy first appeared in Inquisitor 1579 in February last year.  In that blog, Ken Mackenzie noted that … Read more >>

Serpent: no bars, no numbers just like the previous one I blogged last month, but otherwise normal (no corrections/drop-outs, no thematic way to enter answers).   Preamble: Clues are presented in the usual … Read more >>

Odd Situations by Kruger In several clues the definition contains a single letter misprint. The correct letters, in clue order, cryptically suggest how the unclued entries should be completed. Nice short preamble and, … Read more >>

A Nimrod puzzle from our esteemed Editor, so not likely to be a pushover! The complicated rubric read: The final grid represents an early scene in a work of fiction involving three individuals, … Read more >>

Chalicea has been a regular setter for the Inquisitor series since 2011.  The records indicate that today’s puzzle is her twentieth.       The preamble told us that "One letter from a … Read more >>

Another puzzle from Ifor, only a couple of months after his previous one in late March.   Preamble: Down clues are in normal order, and their answers are entered normally. Each contains a … Read more >>

Unlike the Rest by Panther One letter must be omitted, wherever it occurs, from the answer to each clued entry. Wordplay and numbers in brackets refer to the mutilated answers to be entered … Read more >>