Inquisitor

The rubric read: The corrections to misprints in 10 definitions spell out a relevant event. In one of the two thematic unclued entries, two checked cells contain multiple letters (entered vertically). Several answers … Read more >>

Eclogue provides the fun this week.  Eclogue sets Inquisitor puzzles two or three times a year.  The previous puzzle had us drawing a drunkard’s route along a rolling English road.       … Read more >>

Another blast from the past – last seen Charybdis here in June 12017. Another short preamble …   Preamble: Six clue answers must be amended before entry in the grid, with removed letters … Read more >>

  Two’s Company by P  I  N  K The initially-filled grid contains only one letter (say X) that appears exactly twice. Solvers must select from each clue a letter separated by one other … Read more >>

I found this HARD! I only managed to finish it after a four-day period staring at a half-filled grid. I eventually Googled 1D and a guess for 20D as a last throw of … Read more >>

It’s over four years since Ferret last appeared as an Inquisitor setter.  That puzzle, in January 2016, involved Tarzan moving across the grid by swinging on lianas.  I wonder what Ferret has in … Read more >>

Haven’t seen Augeas here for nearly 5 years. And it’s a very short preamble …   Preamble: Solvers should fill the blank cells, then highlight someone, and what (cryptically) she saw (30 cells). … Read more >>

Thanks for the Help by Ifor Clues – all normal – are in alphabetical order of their answers, to be entered where they fit and ignoring the shaded entries. Those on the right … Read more >>

Long and complicated rubric this week leading to a puzzle with a number of layers. Seventeen clues contain a superfluous word which is a jumble of a word representing the titular character of … Read more >>

It’s been well over a year and a half since we had an Inquisitor from Pointer.  This is the first Pointer puzzle I have blogged, but I have enjoyed solving many of his … Read more >>

I seem to recall that Hedge-sparrow’s other Inquisitor puzzle had quite a lot going on.   Preamble: The outer cells contain a phrase (nine words) from a speech made by the person whose … Read more >>

Double Checking by Phi The puzzle is based on one of a set of verses. In one cell in each column the across and down answers clash; clashes to be resolved in favour … Read more >>

Well, I found this pretty taxing, Kruger. The general theme became clear quite quickly with 24 across having only one possibility once a reasonable number of answers had been filled in. However, parsing … Read more >>

Skylark is the fourth in the series of female setters following Nutmeg, Chalicea and Vismut in the past three weeks.       The preamble was quite short this week and stated: Twenty-seven … Read more >>

I very much enjoyed Vismut’s first two puzzles as an Inquisitor, but the third one not so much. Let’s see how we get on with this.   Preamble: On completion of the grid … Read more >>