Inquisitor

From John Henderson (Nimrod et al) … I’ll get me ’at Inquisitor solvers, it seems, are a perverse bunch. For the second year running, the IQ Award has been won by the puzzle … Read more >>

This blog will be the first one to appear in 2015, so a Happy New Year to all our solvers. We bloggers love to read your comments and appreciate your corrections when we … Read more >>

My, what a difficult year 2013 was to follow! But follow, 2014 did, with another harvest of wonderful ideas from an amazing collection of setters. I’m slightly surprised, looking back, to find only … Read more >>

The Christmas Puzzle, entitled Christmas Charity Donation, was set by the Inquisitor Crossword Editor, John Henderson, in his guise of Nimrod.         The preamble stated that " a certain charity is the … Read more >>

A carte blanche grid, so no bars and no numbers. And the clues have neither numbers nor length indications, nor are they in normal order or in alphabetical order of answers. Thanks, Phi. … Read more >>

Preamble: Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their answers which must be fitted into the grid, wherever they will go. One of the five unclued entries has a direct association with three … Read more >>

Welcome S.M.E.R.S.H. (unless you are someone else disguised as the Soviet CIA). What a crossword! I counted 18 answers (almost half!) which were words I’d never heard of or meanings I’d never imagined, … Read more >>

Preamble: Ten entries, clued without definition, may be sorted into pairs to provide five names associated with a protagonist, X. In all remaining clues, single extra letters involved in wordplay spell a further … Read more >>

A first solo Inquisitor offering from Ilver, but already known to us as one of the triumvirate Rasputin.   Wordplay in twenty-seven clues gives rise to single extra letters, in order giving an … Read more >>

Preamble: Wordplay in down clues leads to an extra letter not to be entered in the grid. In clue order, these letters give advice concerning 47 across. Definitely one of the shortest preambles … Read more >>

This is the second Eclogue Inquisitor that I have blogged.  The previous one had a literary theme.  This time …       .. we had a sporting reference as the theme. The … Read more >>

Schadenfreude is back again.   I paraphrase: “Each of 18 clues has a redundant word with one letter in common with its answer. These letters define the phrase to be entered in empty … Read more >>

LATO is a regular setter in the Inquisitor series and he always provides a good challenge.       The preamble told us that "12 of the thematic entries represent fortunately imaginary scenarios … Read more >>

The rubric stated: Corrections to single-letter misprints in the definitions of eleven clues give a phrase which explains how some answers are to be modified before entry, in the manner perhaps exhibited by the … Read more >>