14 comments on “Inquisitor 1551: You Will Have by Kruger”

1. Dear Kenmac, I really enjoyed this puzzle but I, too, took a long time getting the final substitution because YES and YEP fitted but left blanks. I could not get the YouTube clip, just an announcement about copyright problems. Are you posting from outside the UK or is there something I can do to access it?

2. Yesyep @1
   I just managed to access the link from my work computer. Try just searching for “HIGNFY Bruce Forsyth” there seem to be a few videos available.

3. This is my first Kruger (since starting Inquisitor puzzles in mid-March), and I enjoyed every minute of it.  Solving it went strictly NE corner clockwise to the NW corner – not according to any sort of rule, of course, but purely because that was the only way the grid yielded for me.

   I appreciated all of Kruger’s clues. ENARMED and EMIT were the last two answers to reveal themselves – for no reason that I can explain. The last one I managed to parse was INGOTS because I had never heard of the ‘Wizard bank’ indicated in the clue.  (But a family member who has not seen the films has at least read a couple of the books!)  My favourite clue was for 27d LATIMER: it took me a while to solve even though ‘Marryat’ seemed to be screaming out to the solver to do something with it (exactly as you said, kenmac).  I managed to spell out the 24-letter message without difficulty, and it actually helped me to solve (or at least to parse) EMIT and TOPI.

   The two occurrences of YOU with the blank cells next to them seemed ripe for transformation and completion, and the two NEWS items duly obliged, S being the only letter I could think of to go in at the bottom and a choice of N, D and S at the top.

   Many thanks to Kruger and kenmac.

4. I found solving this very a very similar experience to last week’s – an enjoyable process with just a few loose ends I wasn’t satisfied with, though I think I’d ironed out most of them in the end and you’ve cleared up almost all the rest. I don’t seem to have been able to parse 7D, but looking at it now I suspect I was trying to parse the adapted version, STILE, rather than the original UTILE, having made the alteration in the grid prematurely. I was confused by 29A, having searched long and hard for an anagram of b-o-k-e-n meaning cordial. It hadn’t occurred to me that the clue worked with broken as the anagram indicator rather than realign. I also had the question about the ‘found’ in 18A – I’m prepared to accept it as an anagram indicator, in the sense of ‘to cast’, but it never feels right to have an anagram which is just a reversal of the word.

   Thanks to kenmac and to Kruger for digging into the barrel of inventiveness, but by no means scraping the bottom.

5. Likewise many thanks from me to Kruger and kenmac. Seeing GUEST HOST was the key moment here too — no doubt there are lots of programmes which have one of these, but HIGNFY is the only one I know. The two “contributors” followed more or less immediately, and what to do with ” YOU” and “YOU ” seemed (with help from the title) clear enough. It took a while, though, to sort out the remaining spare letters of the affirmative message. Until then there was the usual lurking fear that it was all a deep-laid trap with MERTON and HISLOP needing to be changed to TRILBY and FEDORA.

   19D: I’ve been avoiding even thinking about Harry Potter since writing a whole book about that phenomenon back in the day. But Gringotts stuck in the mind somehow.

6. I was fearing a toughie upon seeing Kruger as the setter and the mention of blank cells but it turned out to be not too tricky after all. After getting the theme (also by spotting GUEST HOST emerge), I spent some time looking for ‘tub of lard’ somewhere in the grid. The use of Gringotts made me smile.

   And a second recent appearance for Mr. Merton, following his role as a joker a couple of weeks ago.

   Cheers Kruger

7. Enjoyable, and not too tricky this week. Though surely the contributors are on the wrong side of the guest host? No problems sorting the extra letters and their interpretation, for once, so all in all things went fairly smoothly.

8. An entertaining puzzle from the ever-reliable Kruger. The two occurrences of NEWS to replace YOU seemed so straightforward that I wondered for a while if there was still more to do. I wasn’t quite sure about the “affirmative” business – I can see that changing the title of the show to I Have Got News For You suggests the necessary grid changes, but I’m not convinced that it really confirms the title of the puzzle, but rather alludes to it. Still, all good fun, thank you Kruger.

9. Jon @7
   I thought that they were in the wrong positions too but on reflection, they’re in the places they are relative to the GUEST HOST, i.e. MERTON is on his/her left and HISLOP on his/her right.

10. A very good puzzle, I thought, tricky but fair. It was one of those where (slowly) I had the grid almost complete and still no idea what to do (how do you amend a grid to be affirmative?). Unlike others, it was spotting Merton and Hislop running down the sides (I do appreciate it when hidden names are not too hidden) that gave the game away. A sudden rush from this to the replacement of the ‘you’s with news, and finally that mysterious phrase across the centre (I still hadn’t filled a couple of crossing words, hence the difficulty).

    Thanks to Kruger, for one of the best of the year for me, and kenmac for clearing up some details.

11. Very entertaining.  I straightforward IQ puzzle, if there is such a thing.  I didn’t get the theme until the very end,which I can only ascribe to dimness on my part as it is pretty clear to see.  Perhaps that was the problem, I have gotten so used to looking for stuff on the edge of my knowledge that I can’t see something when it stares me in the face.

    Thanks Kruger and kenmac.

12. “A straightforward puzzle…”

13. I thought that this was a great example of what an Inquisitor could be – not (almost) impossibly difficult or super-fast easy, a novel device for generating a message, an unclued entry to be figured out, a couple of relevant items to be found hidden in the grid, and finally following the instruction to effect the required changes & complete the puzzle. Bravo, Kruger.

    And of course thanks to kenmac for the blog. I agree with OPatrick @4 that “found” in 18a is to be read in the sense of “cast, or mould”. And in 30a, I took “head partially” to be there because Chambers has NOLL as “the top of the head”.
    For a while I had THANNA (no terminal H) at 40a as another ‘short’ entry, but the intersecting CLOTHO put me right.
    And finally, as far as the programme is concerned, HIGNFY is a statement not a question. but I guess that “affirmative” still works.

     

14. My thanks to all, as usual.

    When I submitted this puzzle (quite a while ago), I genuinely thought that I had come up with a novel way of generating a message. However, the very next weekend a puzzle using the same “+letter & anagram” technique was published. I think it was in IQ but I can’t be certain or remember the puzzle or setter.

     

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