Never knowingly undersolved
Stuball is a new name in the list of Inquisitor setters, so we didn’t know what to expect this week. The preamble was on the shorter side of average and stated … Read more >>
Challenging and clever, with some tricky parsing and a couple of obscure words that slowed me down towards the end. Favourites were 10/11ac, 14ac, 1dn, and 4dn. Thanks to Pasquale.
A brisk trot through the forest to beat the The Witch of the Woods today. But there’s an interesting diversion on the way…
Punk knows well how to adjust his difficulty, because when he becomes Mudd in the FT he is more accessible whereas in his Indy form he is often rather difficult, as here. But no complaints: there were as you’d expect plenty of good clues and it was evidently all sound. My occasional failures of understanding will I trust be explained.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.