Posted by petebiddlecombe on 5th February 2010
Inquisitor puzzles must be subject to the same kind of rule as umbrellas – if I fail to notice that it’s my turn to blog and do them in a hurry, they turn out to be really difficult. This time I did notice and tackled this puzzle on the day of publication. Result: it took about 60 minutes, with only 8 looks at Chambers for me – I can imagine less experienced solvers needing more, but about a dozen looks would probably be enough.
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Posted by Simon Harris on 5th February 2010
A mixed week for me. I proudly managed all but a handful quite quickly without opening a dictionary, stumbled on a couple more, then failed on 4dn having inexplicably written in HORNPIPE at 4ac. More care is clearly needed in future.
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Posted by mhl on 5th February 2010
A quick solve for us apart from 12 across, which I don’t understand.
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Posted by shuchi on 5th February 2010
Plenty of anagrams made this an easy ride.
I have questions at one or two places, indicated along with the answers to clues.
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Posted by John on 5th February 2010
The usual good product from Phi. Several enormous anagrams — he must have been out with his Scrabble tiles. Read the rest of this entry »
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