Comments on: Inquisitor 1205: Poet and Poem by Loda http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/inquisitor-1205-poet-and-poem-by-loda/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 17:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: HolyGhost http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/inquisitor-1205-poet-and-poem-by-loda/#comment-176535 HolyGhost Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:59:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37488#comment-176535 I’m a little reluctant to comment on this one, as I found it rather run-of-the-mill.

Having realised that BEANPOLE had to be entered as POLE and GALLNUT as GALL, I pondered of the connection between the removed BEAN and NUT. My partner ventured “Vegetarian ingredients?” but I thought “No – head”. That, coupled with the somewhat mundane title, immediately led me to Kipling’s verse, the last line of which fitted with the extra letters I’d found.

Highlighting: given that we were looking for 14 cells in total for the poet and the title of the poem, and that RUDYARD KIPLING has 14 letters with no replication between the two names, it seemed natural to look for the highlighted cells to form the shape IF. And that was that.

And, yes, it was a pity that a number of the mutilated entries were not real words.

]]> By: Hi of hihoba http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/inquisitor-1205-poet-and-poem-by-loda/#comment-176476 Hi of hihoba Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:40:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37488#comment-176476 I, too, got this finished via the last line of the poem. I enjoyed the head references (particularly LOO!), and spent some time trying to involve the R to the bottom right of RUDYA in the poet’s name. It was only when I realised that we had 14 letters to form both the poet and the poem that I thought of using the RD in the middle row.

Now Duncan has mentioned it, I realise that the clues were quite simple and conventional.

An enjoyable solve, so thanks Loda.

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