Comments on: Inquisitor 144 – Gross by Schadenfreude http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/10/09/inquisitor-144-gross-by-schadenfreude/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike Laws http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/10/09/inquisitor-144-gross-by-schadenfreude/#comment-94806 Mike Laws Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:20:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=11415#comment-94806 Schadenfreude submitted this puzzle with the title “Annual Chores” which I felt gave the game away too soon. It certainly made me think of tax returns straight away, especially as an alternative title was to be discovered. I’d been pondering about a possible “gross” theme for IQ 144, then spotted the opportunity. I asked S. and he didn’t mind the change of title, so I went ahead.

As for “air-taxi” v. “air taxi”, dictionaries are inconsistent on hyphenation both between and within editions. When whoever was in charge of words beginning with S in Chambers deleted most of the hyphens in compound words beginning “sea-”, the editor i/c L didn’t under “land-”. In some editions, there were discrepancies in hyphenation or not between a compound word’s apprearance as a headword and part of a definition.

What to do, when giving enumerations in brackets?

]]> By: HolyGhost http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/10/09/inquisitor-144-gross-by-schadenfreude/#comment-94795 HolyGhost Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:36:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=11415#comment-94795 I agree with Duncan – not as challenging as many Schadenfreude’s, but the last two or three clues took me a little while.
And, yes, AIR TAXIS at 22d is two words.
It was a bit of a hunt in the completed grid to find the fifteenth answer to be treated, until I deduced that it could not have any of the reversed letters cross-checked and saw the (blindingly obvious) TAX.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/10/09/inquisitor-144-gross-by-schadenfreude/#comment-94772 nmsindy Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:22:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=11415#comment-94772 Older solvers will remember that Gross (the original puzzle title) = 144 (the puzzle number), twelve dozen.

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/10/09/inquisitor-144-gross-by-schadenfreude/#comment-94762 Colin Blackburn Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:37:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=11415#comment-94762 A rare Inquisitor solve for me but I enjoyed this one and found it a little easier than usual for a Schadenfreude. At some point around half way through the penny dropped. So the second half was a bit quicker but no less enjoyable for that.

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