Comments on: Inquisitor 1198 – What? When? by Schadenfreude http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/19/inquisitor-1198-what-when-by-schadenfreude/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 26 May 2013 08:34:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: HolyGhost http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/19/inquisitor-1198-what-when-by-schadenfreude/#comment-172290 HolyGhost Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:17:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35340#comment-172290 Lovely puzzle from a maestro. My solving experience fairly similar to Hi(hoba)’s.

One thing that furrowed my brow until a very short time ago is 1a: BID = old-fashioned command. The CD-ROM (9th ed?) makes no mention of this, but now I see that Ch. 11th ed. marks this as archaic – what does the 12th have in store?

]]> By: mc_rapper67 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/19/inquisitor-1198-what-when-by-schadenfreude/#comment-172271 mc_rapper67 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:35:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35340#comment-172271 Nice blog, thank-you Hi (or Ho?)

Tough indeed – especially for a Saturday-only reader, who didn’t notice the celebrations – but very clever construction, and an enjoyable work-out.

I floundered around for ages, and then stumbled on decOCT OBERon, while trying to work out if that was a B or a K, then spotted SEVENTH a little above, and worked my way up. Then took me a while to decode the phrase from extra letters – although as I had a completed grid by then, I guess the phrase wasn’t completely necessary…

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/19/inquisitor-1198-what-when-by-schadenfreude/#comment-172267 nmsindy Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:58:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35340#comment-172267 Can hardly object to them being a day late, when the Inquisitor puzzle always appears on a Sat in their weekend mag…

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