Comments on: Inquisitor 100 — I ASK YOU! by Schadenfreude

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:04:13 +0000

Thanks for the explanation of the colouring, Mike. Unfortunately, for me, I didn’t know how many different tints were used.

By: George Hill

George Hill — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:26:48 +0000

Excellent puzzle. My solution was much on the lines of Colin’s but I started from the two 11 letter clues being down, and therefore the division between across and down was before the first one. After a short hiatus while sorting out the “100″ clues, everything seemed to fit in very simply, and it turned out to be easier than I had feared for a Schadenfreude crossword.
I didn’t spot the significance of the shading, but a nice idea!

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:32:08 +0000

The colouring was simply the six different background tints that I’m using for Inquisitor puzzles, done as a sort of summing-up of its presentation.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:11:06 +0000

Yes, this was a magnificent puzzle to celebrate the landmark. I’d a very similar experience being baffled at first, but the first penny-dropping moment (PDM) was see the two ZEROs and I guessed what Schadenfreude was up to. There was a bit of cold solving but I felt the clues were easy enough in many cases to compensate for this. Unlike Colin, I’d filled the grid before seeing Torquemada, which was the second PDM, the substitution came immediately and I saw the relevance of the brilliant title.

I thought the colouring might have been included to make it easier to fill in the bars as it was done in symmetrical fashion.