Inquisitor 1332: Self-Reference by Hypnos

15 comments on “Inquisitor 1332: Self-Reference by Hypnos”

1. Many thanks for blog HG.
   I agree that apart from PIN none of the others are acronyms – although that didn’t bother me at the time or stop me looking for ‘initialisms’.There were quite a few other possibilities scattered across the grid, which didn’t help.

   I would also argue about CNN. I have never heard anyone say CNN network.

   But, good fun.

2. I enjoyed this, once I got over 15A being some variant spelling of IRISH (erse) and so got the top right corner sorted – that took some time though!

   And I wasn’t sure about 29D – MORTAR seemed most likely, though it doesn’t jump out as an obvious fit, but I’ve not come across mora before.

   Thanks Hypnos and HolyG

3. I enjoyed this , particularly as I spotted the theme and had to share it with Ho and Ba who didn’t! I liked the jumbled anagrams of definitions+1, though I found a number of them quite tricky to find and had the first SYNDROME almost unpopulated at first as I couldn’t find the extra letters.

   I agree about the acronym definition, but hadn’t thought about it until HG’s blog pointed it out. TLA might have been a better definition!

   So thanks to HG and Hypnos. Nice one!

4. I agree about the non-acronyms, but Counsel for the Defence could call Wikipedia and other web sources to give evidence that the non-acronyms are quoted widely as examples of RAS syndrome.

   I had to Google the phrase – never heard it before!

5. Like Hi@3 I very much enjoyed the jumbled word+1 gimmick, and the whole puzzle really. I thought it a bit of a shame that builders didn’t install the ATM a bit more in line!

6. Surely 12a should be ran not run(managed not manage)-is it any wonder I can never do these b—– puzzles

7. #6 – ‘Run’ = ‘manage’ as in ‘I run the company now’ or ‘managed’ as in ‘I have run the company for 5 years’.

8. Can’t quite put my finger on exactly why, but this one just didn’t do it for me. No real PDM to speak of and, in my view, a dubious theme. Sorry Hypnos!

9. I found the crossword and the theme very satisfying. I’d never heard of RAS syndrome, but it really made me chuckle! I’ve often thought that saying PIN number (as I do myself) is stupid. The Wikipedia explanation of RASS made for a very amusing (and initially (get it?) confusing) read.

   Thanks Hypnos and HG.

   PS if anybody from the Indy reads this, I was sent the wrong prize last week (a bottle of mediocre prosecco, which should have been for the IOS details prize winner, instead of the ‘usual’ very nice champagne). I’m not complaining…free alcohol is always welcome, but I mention it just to you let you know that there was evidently some communication problem with the wine merchants. Thanks anyway.

10. This one didn’t quote gel with me. I had about half the grid filled but not enough redundant letters identified to make the theme apparent.

    I have issues with defining “premier” as “Heath” — a bit ephemeral (Ted Heath? who he?) and “actor” as a definition for “mason” I thought particularly weak. Might as well use “actor” for “smith” or “bacon” or “west”.

    Biggest misdirection was putting “nard” for 12a and wondering what anagram defined it: “stew”? “tows”? “tews”? goodness knew. “nurd” is somewhat of a letdown as I only recognise the word as “nerd”. My thin vocabulary letting me down again.

    No worries though — I made a far better fist of this than I’m making of the current one!

11. Apologies, Dan #9 and others who have contacted me directly. Neither the production editor nor I knew that the bubbly had become prosecco. I hope it’s not dampening the winning feeling too much.

    From this week, I’ve changed the prize details on the puzzle accordingly.

    Ongoing thanks to all commenters. Please be assured that I do note all the points that you make.

    John

12. Thanks for the reply John H. I take it from your message that all prizes have been downgraded…I just thought I’d been sent the wrong one.

    And since you ask, the vanity trip on seeing one’s name in the winners list is unaffected (for me at least!).

    The Inquisitor gives me such great entertainment…Thanks.

13. I loved this one, it’s great when the theme makes you laugh. Would have finished it too, if only I hadn’t had toenail for topsail (extra note = en, rather than ps), and thus made 38a unsolvable.

14. Not the best Inquisitor but certainly enjoyable. We’d not heard of the syndrome and needed wiki to help us out. We were however aware of the misuse of PIN number etc!

    With a little help from the wiki article we were able to highlight the threesomes.

    Thanks to HolyGhost and Hypnos.t

15. I enjoyed this a lot. It was a witty theme and I loved the thematic anagram + 1
    gimmick for definitions. My PDM moment didn’t come until I’d pretty much filled the grid.

    Thought ‘actor’ was fine for ‘Mason’ given the constraints of the theme.

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