Inquisitor

Penumbra is a new setter for the Inquisitor series.       The preamble told us that the wordplay in all clues leads to the answer plus an extra letter not entered in … Read more >>

Chalicea often serves up clues that are on the easy side, followed by a task that involves a certain amount of head-scratching whilst staring at a completed grid.  Preamble: Identifying one thematically placed … Read more >>

The Magic of Opera by Phi The opera is at 18. Clues to entries unaffected by the magic each contain a redundant word, to be removed before solving. The magic of Act 1 … Read more >>

Bit of a slog, this one, with huge numbers of “noise” words in the clues and a slight ambiguity in the final instruction. The rubric (long and complex) read: Half of the clues … Read more >>

This is Radler’s sixth appearance in the Inquisitor series with puzzles coming about once a year.  I have blogged one before.  That one focused on unfinished symphonies. I said then that I enjoyed … Read more >>

Sch… is never away long – it seems like one in every 8 to 10 puzzles is his.   Preamble: Two letters must be removed from the answers in each row and column … Read more >>

Just in Time by Poat Down answers are jumbled before entry. On completing the grid, solvers must deduce how to treat across answers so that an apposite TV quote (three words) appears, leaving … Read more >>

I (Hi) shall be in the USA on holiday when this is published, and as both Ho (hospitalised) and Ba (retired from IQ) are unavailable, I may not be able to respond to … Read more >>

Vismut is a new setter, so it was interesting to see how the puzzle developed       The preamble told us that "Members of a group, written clockwise in the perimeter, are … Read more >>

The umpteenth Inquisitor from Phi …   Preamble: The key phases of the moon here are 1st Quarter, 3rd Quarter and Full. 4-, 8- and 12-letter entries suffer a Phase Shift: the wordplay … Read more >>

Mull It Over by Opsimath Each across clue contains a misprint in the definition. In clue order the corrections spell out the last four words of a verse from a poem and the … Read more >>

This was a puzzle where I knew nothing about the “Artists” in question, nor the album referred to, nor the group, so the whole thing revolved around a Google search. This is not … Read more >>

We have a puzzle from the Inquisitor series editor this week.       The preamble told us that "An Only Connect Wall consists of 16 arbitrarily arranged words, phrases or names that must … Read more >>

The second Inquisitor from The Ace of Hearts, and the first was a ‘Letters Latent’ too.   Preamble: Seven clues are normal but their answers must be entered thematically. From the answer to … Read more >>

Landmark by Pointer The final grid answers incorporate several items (including two place names) that appear on a map of a certain part of Britain, their relative locations having been retained approximately. A … Read more >>