Comments on: Inquisitor 1183 – Ignore Diddly? by Samuel http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/06/inquisitor-1183-ignore-diddly-by-samuel/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: HolyGhost http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/06/inquisitor-1183-ignore-diddly-by-samuel/#comment-164122 HolyGhost Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:27:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31384#comment-164122 My immediate recollection of this puzzle was that it wasn’t that hard … but on reflection I now remember that – yes – it was pretty difficult to get going. (I put this down to starting the puzzle while on a narrow-boat on the Huddersfield Canal with no dictionary, but that probably wasn’t the problem.)

Re 18d: I think that the correct wordplay is JOHN (=can) + S (=puzzles ultimately) + ON (=forward), with “numeric” simply having been removed.

]]> By: Samuel http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/06/inquisitor-1183-ignore-diddly-by-samuel/#comment-163841 Samuel Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:57:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31384#comment-163841 Thanks for the good write-up, Ken, and I’m sorry that you found the puzzle so hard. I thought it at the easier end of the Samuel range, but I’m notoriously poor at assessing how difficult my puzzles are. For instance, I recently sent a puzzle to the Magpie that I thought would be a C/D grade, but turns out to be an A-grade!

Hopefully the puzzle brought back fond memories of Biggles for solvers. I still read the books occasionally as an adult, and own 80 or so of the 100 books in the series. Unfortunately many of the later books are very hard to come by, and prohibitively expensive :-( So if anybody has any Biggles books they fancy selling cheaply, please get in touch!

Oh, and regarding 24ac – I normally include one risque clue in each puzzle when I submit it. Very few get to publication, though :-(

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