Inquisitor

A short preamble told us we had some “abbreviation” to do, and enter two letters in lower case. In each clue the wordplay yields an extra letter not to be entered in the … Read more >>

This is Augeas’ third Inquisitor puzzle, but the first one that I have blogged.  Holy Ghost blogged the previous two.       We had a fairly short preamble this week – Seventeen … Read more >>

Another long preamble from Lato … 11 entries are unnumbered – thematic or unclued, so about 20%. It’s all about X: thematics cryptically reveal the identity; unclued give a description, field of activity, … Read more >>

Preamble: The correct letters from misprinted definitions in 20 clues spell out a returning instruction. Solvers must change the contents of 18 cells, always revealing real words. Short and sweet! I got off … Read more >>

The grid was only 11×11, there were no extra or missing letters, no hidden messages, just six unclued entries and two hidden words to find. I found it pretty easy, despite the longish … Read more >>

There was a long preamble to this Inquisitor puzzle by Phi.  It stated: Unclued answers (all of two words) are an entertainment and four locations therein.  In four down clues, the grid entry … Read more >>

Two unclued part-quotations, the first being completed by extra letters in the wordplay of each clue. The surname of the author of the second is to be highlighted in the grid.   The … Read more >>

Preamble: A quotation suggests why a number of shorter words each forming part of an answer must be replaced by other words, not always of the same length. Numbers in brackets give entry lengths. Unchecked letters within these replacement words can be … Read more >>

The clues were normal this week, no extra or missing letters and no hidden message to discover. The rubric read: Clashes in a small number of cells must be resolved, and the central … Read more >>

When you see the name Schadenfreude you can be sure that you are going get a challenging but scrupulously fair puzzle with a number of layers to peel away as you work your … Read more >>

Seven entries are “starting points” (towns, cities, countries) clued in alphabetical order by wordplay only, and seven rhyming “destinations” are not clued at all. Extra letters in the wordplay of 33 clues spell … Read more >>

Preamble: Each answer must have a letter removed, wherever it occurs, before entry in the grid. Definitions refer to the original answers; wordplay and letter-counts refer to the mutilated forms entered in the … Read more >>

We last met Syd Lexis in Inquisitor 1249, more than a year ago. Welcome back! A long preamble indicated the importance of 1A and 1D: Wordplay in each of six (not seven) across … Read more >>

This is Eclogue’s third puzzle in The Inquisitor series, but I haven’t blogged either of the previous ones. There was a long preamble to the puzzle which stated "Each clue contains a misprint … Read more >>

A long preamble, paraphrased: Two unclued entries describe how 11 thematic answers have to be changed before entry. (In one case there’s a double change, and answer & entry lead to an anagram … Read more >>