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We have a new setter today. I can’t find any reference to previous puzzles set by Sauce in the fifteensquared records. Sauce’s first act was to present us with a … Read more >>
This is our first IQ blog and to our great relief, we found Vismut’s offering fairly straightforward (by IQ standards!).
We have a puzzle from Poat this week. Poat is an infrequent Inquisitor setter. A look at the Inquisitor index shows that is three and a half years since we last had a … Read more >>
Cranberry made his debut here in 2022 and has since contributed a puzzle twice a year. Preamble: Eight solutions must be thematically transformed before entry to the grid, leaving non-words. Enumerations refer … Read more >>
We have an Inquisitor this week set by Nimrod, one of the pseudonyms used by John Henderson who is the editor of the Inquisitor series. Usually a Nimrod puzzle is quite a challenge … Read more >>
Holy Hole in a Donut! Solvers must highlight a traveller in the completed grid. Clues to two places where he arrived eventfully lack a definition, as do those to his location three days … Read more >>
This is the thirty-second puzzle by Eclogue following the first appearance of this setter in 2012. I have seen reference to Eclogue being the pseudonym for a pair of setters in the past … Read more >>
Since the weekend puzzle changed its name to Inquisitor in 2007, Ifor has now appeared solo 49 times. We look forward to his reaching his half-century. Preamble: Four perimeter answers must each … Read more >>
Intruders by Phi Each of the ten “Intruder” clues leads to an answer modified before entry by the removal of a letter, with the gap closed to form a new word to be … Read more >>
Winter is coming. Wordplay in all but one down clue contains an extra letter that must be removed to enable solving; these letters spell a name and a location associated with an occurrence … Read more >>
We have a puzzle from Chalicea this week which is her 32nd Inquisitor according to Fifteensquared records. The preamble was short and clear telling us that the unclued 16 and 21 … Read more >>
The Ace of Hearts, a visitor on average about once a year. Preamble: Five clues are normal, but their answers must be entered thematically. From the answer to each other clue, a … Read more >>
Twenty-five clues contain a misprint in the definition. In clue order, corrections spell two instructions from one unclued entry to the other. Answers to 10 further clues must be thematically altered before entry per a third instruction. In the filled grid, solvers must highlight a target of this instruction (six cells). Numbers in brackets refer to unmodified answer lengths.
There’s a lot of it about, you know. Rough justice, that is. Thirteen clues contain a consecutive pair of extra letters which must be removed before solving, always leaving real words. In clue … Read more >>
Xanthippe appears on fifteensquiared as a setter of Inquisitor and Enigmatic Variations (EV) puzzles. He/she features about once a year alternating between Inquisitors and EVs – although the cycle has been once every … Read more >>