Comments on: Inquisitor 104: Merry-Go-Round by Eddie

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:55:00 +0000

This took me a week, on & off – but I was trekking in the Sahara with no access to reference books! So, it’s good to have a holiday puzzle that doesn’t stretch the vocabulary too much …

By: Duncan Shiell

Duncan Shiell — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:45:11 +0000

Thanks Geoff for the explanation of 8 down. I was too fixated on PLY meaning ‘use’.

Thanks Kea for the comment about the theme being used before. I guess it must be very difficult for setters to come up with unique themes given that puzzles like The Listener, Inquisitor, Enigmatic Variations and similar have been around for many years. The Listener website is a veritable Aladdin’s Cave of information, but it is not particularly user friendly in terms of the ability to search for themes.

By: Kea

Kea — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:41:00 +0000

The same theme was used in Listener 3701, Wet Feet by Schadenfreude, in 2002 (http://www.listenercrossword.com/Years/Puzzles/L3/L37/L3701.html).

By: Geoff Moss

Geoff Moss — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:56:50 +0000

You were nearly there with 8d. It is:

AUT[h]OR (writer leaving hotel) E[m]PL{O}Y (no money to use)