Inquisitor

Three unclued entries, some clashes, “thematically placed”. Clashes resolve to give an appropriate word reading down the grid. “Three similar words” (similar to what? each other?) “again thematically placed”, forming relevant shapes (16 … Read more >>

Inquisitor 1207 An unusually shaped grid this time. Also, it turns out, some of the bars and borders were missing from the published grid, which is a shame. On inspection, the grid is … Read more >>

I found this one – let’s not beat about the bush – very difficult. Without my laptop and Chambers on-line I would never have finished it! I have to say that the whole … Read more >>

The preamble told us that "solvers must fill in the central cell and highlight the poet and the poem in the completed grid (14 squares in total, in a logical order).  The perimeter … Read more >>

The rubric states that extra letters in the wordplay of down clues identify an achievement, one feature of which is symbolically represented in the grid, together with the full name of its creator. … Read more >>

The title is “CAVEAT”, which means a notice or a warning! According to the preamble, the wordplay, in thirty clues, generates an extra letter giving a variant of a quotation. There are four … Read more >>

Another corker to go with the last six inquisitors. All really challenging and extremely enjoyable (always helped by the occasional win – 1199 in my case!) A long and complex preamble told us … Read more >>

The preamble stated "To reveal the prime example solvers should follow instructions spelt out by single extra letters yielded by the wordplay in each clue in order. Two answers are abbreviations; ignore two … Read more >>

Phew – what a scorcher!   Twenty 3-letter answers to be fitted where they will (seven abbreviations, thirteen of another sort yielding a “juke box source”), an anagram of ten letters in shaded … Read more >>

The preamble tells us that significant points (we’re not told how many) of a trajectory using a “33” (10 letters) and implied by a song are omitted from wordplay.  (Yikes, what the H … Read more >>

I found this one “challenging” (i.e. very difficult!). It was worth persevering with, and would have been much easier if you spotted the theme early, which I didn’t. Had I read the paper … Read more >>

The Inquisitor index on this website tells me that this is Nudd’s first puzzle in the Inquitior series.  I have, however, come across Nudd puzzles before, in The Magpie. The preamble stated "In nine … Read more >>

There are four unclued answers, all fairly long, and all made up of multiple words. It seems that our setter, Loda, takes these four phrases seriously. Then there are six symmetrically placed answers … Read more >>

Clues are presented in alphabetical order of answers (at least, that’s what the preamble said), and 19 have single-letter misprints in the definition. These spell out a link between the theme of the … Read more >>

Simple rubric starting with the encouraging words “Having completed the grid”. So no immediate need to think about the puzzle element, get on with the clues. The answers were pretty straightforward but we … Read more >>