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It’s a year since Augeas last set an Inquisitor puzzle – the one about Aunt Ada Doom and Cold Comfort Farm. It had a very simple preamble. This one was more complex. It … Read more >>

Well, the heart of the blogger sinks a bit when the pseudonym (or, as Sam Costa used to say, peusodonym!) of our esteemed editor appears as the setter. I wasn’t disappointed. No rubric … Read more >>

Eclogue entertains us this week with a crossword that maybe should have appeared in July 2018! A 43 accompanied by 34 set off on a journey which is approximately mapped in the grid. … Read more >>

First, congratulations to Charybdis, one of my favourite setters, for his prescience in setting  a clue concerning K2 which was in the news on the very day that it was published! 8D refers … Read more >>

While writing this blog, I have just heard the bad news about the Christmas lockdown! As this will come out just after Christmas and just before New Year, may I wish everyone on … Read more >>

Definitions in eight clues contain a misprint; correct letters spell a thematic location. Extra letters produced by wordplay in 26 further clues give a thematic quote, made by an individual whose name provides … Read more >>

A third offering from Hedge-sparrow, a relative newcomer to the illustrious company of Inquisitor setters. The rubric read: One letter per grid row is not indicated by the wordplay of the clues. These … Read more >>

The number 1666 for this puzzle was always going to be the most important clue to the subject matter, so let’s dispose of it straight away. It had to be the Great Fire … Read more >>

Wordplay in each clue yields an extra letter not to be entered in the grid. Those from across clues explain the puzzle’s title and source of the theme; solvers must complete the unclued … Read more >>

Ifor is a frequent setter, this is his 31st puzzle and his third this year. None of them is easy! Each down clue contains a letter that must travel up or down within … Read more >>

A long complex rubric with a coda by the editor. The solutions to both grids are identical except for the three pairs of thematic entries in the silver cells; other down answers may … Read more >>

A Nimrod puzzle from our esteemed Editor, so not likely to be a pushover! The complicated rubric read: The final grid represents an early scene in a work of fiction involving three individuals, … Read more >>

The rubric read: The corrections to misprints in 10 definitions spell out a relevant event. In one of the two thematic unclued entries, two checked cells contain multiple letters (entered vertically). Several answers … Read more >>

I found this HARD! I only managed to finish it after a four-day period staring at a half-filled grid. I eventually Googled 1D and a guess for 20D as a last throw of … Read more >>

Long and complicated rubric this week leading to a puzzle with a number of layers. Seventeen clues contain a superfluous word which is a jumble of a word representing the titular character of … Read more >>