16 comments on “Inquisitor 1510: Work by Schadenfreude”

1. Still chuckling over our recent “Two Soups” puzzle, (I have kept a link for the episode,) … and now we get “Five Soups”. Like Kenmac, I have nothing much to say, other than, in spite of 38 redundant letters, this was my sort of IQ.

   Lord Curzon would not have thought me a gentleman in most other ways, but I do agree with him about soup being inappropriate for lunch. What would he have thought of Cup-a-Soup ? Did John Betjeman ever write a poem about that ?

2. Agreed that this was on the easier side as these things go. The extra letters for once fell fairly easily, and Google sorted out the full quote. The end game? Fairly straightforward, much to my surprise. All in all satisfying to solve, and thoroughly enjoyable.

3. Lots of fun as expected from Schadenfreude. At first I dithered a bit about where to look for soup (was that SCRAPE at top right a synonym for being in the soup?). But “reveal” suggested an actual spelling-out of the word, and after convincing myself that it wouldn’t work with the letters in a horizontal line, the hunt was on for a spectacular and symmetrical revelation as so often favoured by this setter. Having TAWNY as an answer in its own right was a useful lead-in to the P soup of MULLIGATAWNY (“But there’s no P in mulligatawny” said my wife, puzzled by my muttering) and the rest soon followed. All the more impressive with the new-format i‘s generous allocation of IQ space.

   Thanks all round!

4. On the scale of 1-5, this was pretty close to 1 I’d say (being led into the endgame by TAWNY as @3). Strong comparisons with Inquisitor 42 – same idea but with FISH, on the anniversary of the ‘hurricane’. Guess who the setter was …
       Anyway, thanks to him & to the out-of-sequence kenmac .

5. I enjoyed the grid fill enormously (orange – orang being worth the price of entry). As for the wordsearch, I gave up rather easily (is there a summer soup? A batch soup?), even though I did notice a suspicious vich (but failed to notice tawny). There’s only so much searching I want to do.

   Thanks to Schadenfreude and kenmac

6. I thought this puzzle was souper (sorry), but I don’t understand why “its” is in italics in 2d (I’m fairly sure it was like that in the newspaper).

7. Tony @6

   I have an astigmatism and, even with corrective lenses, I have trouble realizing when text is in italics. TBH, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it if our esteemed editor hadn’t emailed me to point it out specifically.

   I guess it’s to emphasize that it’s a girl specifically from the Cromer area.

8. I didn’t understand the Cromer clue at the time, so thanks for the explanations above. It strikes me now that MOR is also hidden within Cromer. Very neat indeed.

9. Oops, my attempt to italicise ‘within’ in the previous comment went wrong. Sorry.

10. Apologies, of course it is inside Cromer, it’s part of the answer. If only I could delete comments! I’ll get my coat…

11. I found filling the grid reasonably straightforward but (misled perhaps by tawny) thought the missing word was port rather than soup, which delayed me for a while. Unfortunately, although I identified five soups, I didn’t realise that they formed the letters of the word (being a relative newcomer to the Inquisitor, I don’t have the benefit of having done this sort of thing before). I also didn’t (and still don’t) understand why the soups had to be delineated rather than highlighted. Incidentally, was anyone else tempted to enter PEA (see north-east corner of the grid).

12. Before I discovered CHOWDER or COCKIELEEKIE (new to me, I’d always known it as COCKALEEKIE) I’d also spotted BORSCH (a splodge starting with the B at 15 across, and PHO, (in a line starting with the P three cells to the right of 18 across). I was also distracted by PEA in the top right hand corner (I know, PEA isn’t a named soup as such) and the LEEK of COCKIELEEKIE. I didn’t look for any more but wonder just how many soups there were in the crossword altogether?

13. bridgesong @11: “delineate” means “to mark out with lines”, so I think that the instruction was for us to join the centres of the ‘soup’ cells with lines thereby forming the letters of SOUP as if we’d been writing out the word.

14. HolyGhost @13: thanks, that makes sense. I did outlines which just looked messy.

15. Hmm. Everything was solved except for the endgame, where like Chris JONES @11, all I could see was Pho. I soon gave up.

16. I filled the grid and found the quote but couldn’t see the soups. I hadn’t counted on them being in loops rather than straight lines. Now I see kenmac’s solution it all looks very neat and clever. Well done to both Schadenfreude and kenmac.

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