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I have to say, this was a masterful offering from Schadenfreude, an old friend of the Inquisitor, and invariably ‘firm but fair’ – this was no exception.   The puzzle concerns two people … Read more >>

Chalicea – a setter new to the Inquisitor {but see comment 7}, and, appropriately for me, I flew to Zürich the day after the puzzle’s publication and I’m blogging from the Bernese alps. … Read more >>

Extra letters in the wordplay of across clues indicate how answers to down clues are to be entered. Seven letters have to be highlighted in the completed grid.   An 11×11 grid, and … Read more >>

I must admit to having a soft spot for Samuel’s puzzles, so I was quite looking forward to this.  Seventeen clues have a misprint in the definition, correct letters spelling an instruction about … Read more >>

Back from a week’s walking north of Alnwick, and after the ‘moorland treks’ provided by the previous two puzzles, this one was more of ‘a stroll on the beach’.  Across clues have a … Read more >>

A bit more difficult than some recent puzzles … not made easier by my going away for a weekend’s walking with no Chambers and only a rather dated Collins that I found in … Read more >>

Raich is averaging about three Inquisitors a year since his first appearance in mid-2008, and all pretty decent ones in my opinion. (And he notched up his third Listener just the weekend before, … Read more >>

With hindsight, quite a tame one from Phi.  A number of answers, with a common feature, are entered in an unusual manner, implying a numerical value for a letter of the alphabet. With … Read more >>

Midnight Saturday, guests have all gone home or gone to bed … time to pour a whisky and have a look at the crossword.  Ten unclued thematic entries (5 pairs); first letters of … Read more >>

“Each clue yields a superfluous letter …” (alert: it might not be from the wordplay, but in the definition, or elsewhere?). These give a conundrum, three possible answers, and the initials of the … Read more >>

There are 13 definition-only answers, leading to thematic entries (“all reel [sic] words”).   The remaining clues each have an extra word, letters 1 & 3 of which spell a quotation; the author’s … Read more >>

Surely this is not the same Nimrod that was active on the Listener in the 1940’s?  This was pretty hard: clues in alphabetical order of answers, to be entered in the grid in … Read more >>

After the relatively gentle strolls (or canters) of the last few weeks, this puzzle proved rather a stiffer challenge (or maybe I just wasn’t really in the mood).  Two of the first clues … Read more >>

As Hihoba is on holiday for a few weeks, I’m blogging this one, and he’ll do mine later in May.  A frustratingly slow start on this one …   … but with about … Read more >>