Comments on: Inquisitor 153 – COMPOSING TWIST by Hypnos http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/11/inquisitor-153-composing-twist-by-hypnos/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:12:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Hypnos http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/11/inquisitor-153-composing-twist-by-hypnos/#comment-98409 Hypnos Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:17:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=12997#comment-98409 Thanks to Holy Ghost for the excellent blog and NMSindy for his comment. PLOAT had not occurred to me – and maybe BANCO could also have been included!

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/11/inquisitor-153-composing-twist-by-hypnos/#comment-98168 nmsindy Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:53:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=12997#comment-98168 Yes, this was an excellent puzzle. My experience was somewhat different to the blogger. I filled a fair amount of the grid, which took some time, finding the quote when ..SMITH looked like it would appear at the end and I thought of GOLDSMITH. Luckily the quote was in my ODQ which helped. I then solved the rest of the clues and spent sometime using the letters given (a good idea, that) to complete the unclued entries, with STANCE which had been pencilled in at one point, changing as a result to SEANCE.

But I’d no idea what it all meant. Had noticed there were 11 rather than the 10 I was half-expecting from the preamble. Noticed the title could be linked with SETTING TWINE but still was mystified. Put the puzzle away for quite a while and took it out again. Fairly soon, looking at the letters saw they could make WITTGENSTEIN and all became clear. With hindsight, wondering why I did not think of the anagram possibility earlier.

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