Inquisitor

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 >>

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 >>