Comments on: Inquisitor 1266: WOODCHUCK PUZZLE by Plench

By: Neil Hunter

Neil Hunter — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:25:35 +0000

I wish I had seen BertandJoyce’s comment a little earlier. I too assumed it was a printing mistake – and recycled. Then, having seen their comment, I had a mini-odyssey round local libraries to find the magazine.

As for the puzzle, which was fun, I got hung up on the ‘jav’ of deja vu, fully expecting to find a javelin.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:18:26 +0000

Sorry HG. Given that the Indie crossword isn’t online, anyone doing v2 would know v1 (surely?), so I’d not seen too much of a problem… Anyway, mea culpa. I was surprised by how easy this puzzle was. Joys awaited.

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:36:34 +0000

Not much traffic on this puzzle – I'd have expected more. It was a fine puzzle, if not overly challenging. And, yes, leaving actual words after "tree" removal is a sign of class. I was stupidly concerned by the lack of symmetry of the BOOMERANG but became quite content (and very knowledgable about asymmetric boomerangs). And Bertandjoyce (above), I don't think it's good to talk about an active puzzle except in a most cursory fashion – I came to "the next one" late. (The same goes for Ross, comment 13 on the previous blog – keep your powder dry.)

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:44:32 +0000

Do not apologise for any of the blog Hihoba! We love all the flashing colours etc.

We enjoyed the puzzle and completed it fairly easily. We had a good laugh when we looked at the next one in the IQ series and noticed the same clue and had a real sense of 1ac and 1d! We thought it was a printing error until we saw the preamble. However we are getting ahead of ourselves here!

Thanks Plench.

By: NormanLinFrance

NormanLinFrance — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:47:35 +0000

Thanks for the blog. I’d never done an Inquisitor before and really enjoyed this work-out (thanks to David). You can only wonder at how much thought and preparation went into the compiling, and admire the end result, with, as you say, proper words all over.