Comments on: Inquisitor 103 – The Top Ten by Charybdis http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/12/26/inquisitor-103-the-top-ten-by-charybdis/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: HolyGhost http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/12/26/inquisitor-103-the-top-ten-by-charybdis/#comment-62164 HolyGhost Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:32:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4605#comment-62164 28d: Not very happy with “power” being used to clue “E”.

]]> By: deadeasy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/12/26/inquisitor-103-the-top-ten-by-charybdis/#comment-61271 deadeasy Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:00:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4605#comment-61271 Thanks, Duncan, for telling us about ELO RATINGS. I’d taken it to be a reference to the musical group’s hits, and had done diligent research (via Wikipedia) on what was to me a fairly arcane topic (now if it had been on the Grateful Dead . . . ).

I had identified KASPAROV, but hadn’t made the connection with ELO.

My flash of inspiration came when I made a tentative association between ELECTRIC and ORCHESTRA, and I then looked for and finally saw the LIGHT. Though I don’t remember the order I solved the puzzle, I recall that I was able to work out at a fairly early stage the words INGRID and LETTER, and realised that the missing letters spelt FREQUENCY before I’d finished solving the clues. It’s almost helpful if you can work out the phrase in advance, as it can help work out which clues are “dodgy” and which are “straight”.

Another fun crossword.

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