Inquisitor

A cunning Schadenfreude offering this week with a Trilby/Fedora twist in the endgame. The answer given by the wordplay in each of 19 clues overlooks a single letter. These letters give two titles, one … Read more >>

It’s been over a year since we saw a Lato Inquisitor, so it’s good to get another one.       The preamble told us that nine unclued entries (three groups of three) … Read more >>

The fourth Inquisitor offered jointly by eXt(ternal + Serp)ent.   Preamble: Each clue contains a misprint of one letter; the pairs of incorrect and correct letters, in clue order, spell out four lines … Read more >>

You Will Have by Kruger Half of the clues each have a letter added to one word in their definition which is then usually (but not always) jumbled – not all of the … Read more >>

Eclogue is quite a frequent setter, his last two puzzles were the New Year’s Eve puzzle about the dinner sketch, watched religiously in Germany every year, and the Red Dwarf puzzle, so I … Read more >>

Chalicea is a fairly regular contributor to the Inquisitor series. I blogged her most recent one in January that focused on the SS Great Eastern and the transatlantic communications cable.       … Read more >>

Ifor usually presents us with challenging puzzles. This was no exception.   Preamble: Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their answers, which must be entered normally and where they will fit. When … Read more >>

Northern Lights by Phi Orthernay Ightslay ybay Iphay The unclued entries (none of which is a word) can be converted to a list of names with something in common by the application of … Read more >>

The last Triton puzzle I blogged was the Roulette puzzle in 2016 which elicited 38 comments, many objecting to the theme on obscurity grounds. I found it entertaining and (due to my misspent … Read more >>

Schadenfreude provides the Inquisition this week.       The preamble told us that  clues to nine answers lack a common definition.  the three unclued entries when unjumbled provide a link to the … Read more >>

We get an Inquisitor puzzle from Serpent about twice a year, sometimes quite hard, often quite fun.   Preamble: Four symmetrically-placed across clues have standard wordplay and definitions. In each of the remaining … Read more >>

Barcode by Xanthippe Clues are given in normal order and solvers must complete the grid, which has no symmetry and contains 4 barred off empty cells. Two entries are clued by wordplay only … Read more >>

Wiglaf is an irregular but welcome setter in the Inquisitor series. His two previous puzzles date from 2013, a literary puzzle and 2016 XXXX which resolved itself to be 20/20. Both were well … Read more >>

I last blogged a Gila Inquisitor in May 2014 when the subject was the television quiz programme Bullseye.       The preamble in this puzzle told us that twenty clues contain a … Read more >>

Two previous Inquisitor puzzles have had the byline Nitsy … but they were in 2007 & 2009 – that’s certainly a while back.   Preamble: Thirteen clues contain no definitions: the answers to … Read more >>