Comments on: Inquisitor 1114 – Two Dozen by Loda

By: RayFolwell

RayFolwell — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:24:54 +0000

Very ingenious and enjoyable. We spotted the upside-down treatment first and then tried to find UPSIDE DOWN from the misprints.

It was not clear whether we were meant to use the misprinted letters or the corrected letters, but that’s only a minor grumble.

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:39:04 +0000

Mike – Thanks … in my haste, I’d somehow foolishly misread “suture” as “structure”.

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:58:24 +0000

HolyGhost – 5 across.

Chambers gives for NASION “the median point of the nasofrontal suture” – sv “suture” in it.

Jake – not way over your head, since you’ll have sussed it all by now.

Welcome aboard!

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:38:14 +0000

Not too difficult to get going. Started on the down clues and got 7d & 14d, which gave me ???A??T??? for the down phrase – (un)fortunately I guessed TOP AND TAIL straight away. Some intersecting across answers indicated they had to be entered backwards, and so I thought the rest would be plain sailing. But I struggled for a while with D?MTS for 29d … until it dawned on me that the across treatment was to enter the answers upside down as well.

The rest followed à la Hihoba’s blog. Quite satisfying.

PS What purpose is “stitch” serving in the clue for 5a?

By: Hi of Hihoba

Hi of Hihoba — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:58:03 +0000

Mike, In my attempts to illustrate the “resupination” I found a “flip font” but it was one of those with very odd shaped letters, and anyway WordPress couldn’t cope with it. I could have done it laboriously using pictures, but decided it was too much effort. So I look forward to seeing it when the result comes out. There were some advantages in the old days when people used to write letters and talk to each other rather than using email!
Thanks for the heads-up about closing dates.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:04:48 +0000

Being new to Inquisitor I figured out 33dn first ‘Texans’ knowing that two letters needed to be removed, but which two?

I not ashamed to say this was way over my head, and guessed I’d wait ’til the good folk here posted the information/answers, then try and work my way through the puzzle with aid.

puzzle 1115 Dysart seems more my thing (I hope)
I had some tips from Mike Laws – thanks Mike, so, hopefully it may be one I’m able to finish?

Thanks for the blog on this. You’re good people.

By: Mike Laws

Mike Laws — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:58:56 +0000

A thoroughly enjoyable puzzle.

The only problem I had with it was constructing the solution diagram for publication!

However, eimi managed to sort it out (don’t ask me how), after a lot of experimentation with his software. It would have been much easier to have sent the diagram filled in by hand – as used to be the case when I started doing crosswords.

The result of his handiwork will be seen next Saturday week, with the appearance of IQ 1117.

(Unfortunately, from that date, the closing date for entries will be one day earlier.)