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Chalicea often serves up clues that are on the easy side, followed by a task that involves a certain amount of head-scratching whilst staring at a completed grid.  Preamble: Identifying one thematically placed … Read more >>

Sch… is never away long – it seems like one in every 8 to 10 puzzles is his.   Preamble: Two letters must be removed from the answers in each row and column … Read more >>

The umpteenth Inquisitor from Phi …   Preamble: The key phases of the moon here are 1st Quarter, 3rd Quarter and Full. 4-, 8- and 12-letter entries suffer a Phase Shift: the wordplay … Read more >>

The second Inquisitor from The Ace of Hearts, and the first was a ‘Letters Latent’ too.   Preamble: Seven clues are normal but their answers must be entered thematically. From the answer to … Read more >>

The fourth Inquisitor offered jointly by eXt(ternal + Serp)ent.   Preamble: Each clue contains a misprint of one letter; the pairs of incorrect and correct letters, in clue order, spell out four lines … Read more >>

Ifor usually presents us with challenging puzzles. This was no exception.   Preamble: Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their answers, which must be entered normally and where they will fit. When … Read more >>

We get an Inquisitor puzzle from Serpent about twice a year, sometimes quite hard, often quite fun.   Preamble: Four symmetrically-placed across clues have standard wordplay and definitions. In each of the remaining … Read more >>

Two previous Inquisitor puzzles have had the byline Nitsy … but they were in 2007 & 2009 – that’s certainly a while back.   Preamble: Thirteen clues contain no definitions: the answers to … Read more >>

Schadenfreude shows up here about every couple of months.   Preamble: Seven of a set of ten are to appear clockwise in the perimeter. The initial letters of single words to be removed … Read more >>

A puzzle by eXternal … but not Clue Two IV (yet).   Preamble: Single letter clashes occur in six cells and each should be resolved in favour of a third letter to make … Read more >>

Haven’t blogged a puzzle by Pointer before.   Preamble: In the spirit of the theme, the seven shaded shapes should be carefully cut out from the filled grid, leaving holes, and assembled to … Read more >>

My first puzzle by Ifor to blog since April Fool’s Day, though there were three others later in 2017.   Preamble: Eight across clues include an extra word containing only one letter not … Read more >>

I initially thought that this was Encota‘s debut in this series, but I checked and saw that his/her first Inquisitor puzzle was published early last September.   Preamble: In 32 clues the wordplay … Read more >>

eXtent makes a welcome return.   Preamble: Each grid contains two unclued entries identifying a theme (6,8); the fifth unclued entry indicates a thematic relationship. Eight clues lack definitions; their answers are thematic … Read more >>