Comments on: Inquisitor 1129 Oh! by Schadenfreude http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/06/16/inquisitor-1129-oh-by-schadenfreude/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 08:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: HolyGhost http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/06/16/inquisitor-1129-oh-by-schadenfreude/#comment-111853 HolyGhost Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:16:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=18121#comment-111853 Twigged that down answers had to be entered upwards after solving just 5 or 6 clues – GUEST BEER & PALMETTE across, BRETON, SPLEEN & LIKELIEST down (up).

The wordplay in the across clues was often more illuminating than the definition, but I soon had enough omitted letter to guess the quote and check it out – and then the other missing letters that were thus revealed enabled me to figure out the other defined words, e.g. the entry at 45a is ROAU, the answer with 3 K’s missing, so looked at ROK…

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