Hihoba

Well, I found this pretty taxing, Kruger. The general theme became clear quite quickly with 24 across having only one possibility once a reasonable number of answers had been filled in. However, parsing … Read more >>

Hi of Hihoba here again. I’m trying to pay back my fellow bloggers who took up the slack when I was unwell, so two in a row from me. I do enjoy Chalicea’s … Read more >>

Hello Inquisitor lovers. I’m glad to be back after some rather unpleasant hospital treatment. This is the first time I have been able to even attempt an Inquisitor – mostly due to the … Read more >>

Another new setter. Welcome Skylark! Simple rubric: Twenty-one clues contain an additional letter in the wordplay which should be removed before solving. In clue order these (with the insertion of an apostrophe and … Read more >>

This seems, from the archive, to be Hob’s first inquisitor. If so, welcome Hob. I enjoyed it a lot. The preamble read: Using REMAINS, seven letters in the completed grid must be altered … Read more >>

Ah! Harribobs again. Always tricky, but fair. The preamble, if long, seemed pretty straightforward. 15 clues where the wordplay gave an extra letter, these extra letters to spell out some assistance to solvers. … Read more >>

I haven’t done a crossword since the end of May as I’ve been sailing round Britain in a 35 foot yacht (you can see my blog of the trip here if you are … Read more >>

A non-word title and a long complex rubric. I feared I was in for a long haul. Solvers must attempt to divide the clues to find two groups. In one group, whose answers … Read more >>

Hmm. Quite hard, I thought, Kruger. Most clues contain a single letter misprint in their definitions. The correct letters, in clue order, give an oft-repeated line of a verse. The preceding line explains … Read more >>

First, a mention of the sad news accompanying this puzzle, that Schadenfreude is no more. I was in awe for many years of the creativity of his puzzles and the accuracy of his … Read more >>

Ifor is a pretty prolific Inquisitor setter, his last two puzzles being the Heart Transplant puzzle (1562) and the Molesworth “Down with Skool” puzzle (1575). The extensive rubric to this one read: Two … Read more >>

Dysart has been setting occasional Inquisitors from the early days, starting with no 18, though rarely more than one a year. I blogged his last Inquisitor (1514) in October 2017. Each unclued entry … Read more >>

The eXtent team served up this year’s seasonal fare in the Pantomime Season. The rubric read: The clues for four thematic entries lack definitions. Nine other clues must each have a string of … Read more >>

This was one of the most amazing feats of grid construction I have ever encountered. Harribobs is one of the masters of the art. This is only his fourth Inquisitor so far, but … Read more >>

Bit of a slog, this one, with huge numbers of “noise” words in the clues and a slight ambiguity in the final instruction. The rubric (long and complex) read: Half of the clues … Read more >>