Comments on: Inquisitor 1246 WHAT DO YOU GET . . . by Samuel

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:29:55 +0000

Something of a stroll, this one – OK if you like a stroll, less so if you like the occasional hill to climb.

I guess “unaccompanied” = “unescorted”, and T and S are ‘escorting’ EPEE in TEPEES – creative indeed.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:45:18 +0000

Thanks for the write-up, and the comments. ‘O’ does these days equal Over in Chambers, but is a fairly recent edition.

This was the latest in a long series of joke-themed Samuel puzzles; previous ones were published in The Magpie. The first in the series, “Doctor, Doctor” (from sometime in 2006, I think) can be found as one of the sample puzzles available to download without subscription from http://www.piemag.com. Any solvers of Inquisitor, EV or Listener puzzles should subscribe to the magazine – 6 puzzles per month of varying degrees of difficulty by many of the same setters who provide puzzles for the aforementioned series. At (I think) £30 per year, it’s a bargain.

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:45:12 +0000

Sorry – I hadn’t seen 2.

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:44:40 +0000

It was great fun – thanks for the very full blog. I also set out imagining the “crosses” might be a bit more feasible than some of them are – I mean, however much a toad fancies a galaxy they’re hardly likely to have any offspring, are they? But given that the remit was basically bad jokes, in the end that one (along with the Pig with the phone – another interesting image) might have been my favourite. I’m slightly surprised you didn’t know o=over; it must have been in thousands of other clues and is not exactly rare in the real world either (along with m=maiden, w=wicket, r=runs etc.). Epee/teepees is more perplexing – I don’t remember being troubled by it at the time but it does seem a bit weird now. I suppose it’s just a very creative reading of “unaccompanied”.

By: Hi of hihoba

Hi of hihoba — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:35:05 +0000

O for over is not in my online Chambers, but does appear in the hard copy 11th edition, so I withdraw my objection and will amend the blog when I get time. Thanks Bertandjoyce.

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:46:37 +0000

We returned from Italy to find that our newsagent had unfortunately mislaid our Saturday Indy papers. Thanks to Duncan we have were able to keep our record of not missing an Inquisitor.

We finished this one a few days ago and we had a smile or two as well. We had problems early on as we thought the unclued answers were all animals until we found ROSES and SHEEPDOG.

We think OMAHA works if you take O to mean ‘over’ as in cricket. It’s in Chambers.

Thanks Hihoba and Samuel.