Inquisitor

Sign Up Here! by Ploy A group of two or three letters must be removed from each of ten clues, to form new clues to be solved. In the remaining clues, the wordplay … Read more >>

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 >>

Poat is a setter who doesn’t appear very often.  There has been over two years between Poat puzzles recently.       The preamble this week was fairly short – Clashes arise in … Read more >>

It’s another in the Clue Two sequence. How will eXternal follow up the Pac-Man maze?   Preamble: The unclued top row gives a thematic location. An answer to one down clue per column … Read more >>

  Death Wish by Serpent The wordplay in 12 clues leads to an extra letter; solvers must use these letters to complete the unclued entries. Each of the remaining clues contains a string … 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 >>

This week’s Inquisitor set by Vismut is entitled Whodunnit, so we have a mystery on our hands.         The preamble told us that each down clue has an extra letter … Read more >>

Phi is a rather prolific setter here, about 4 puzzles a year of late – many more in other outlets.   Preamble: The two unclued entries are to be unjumbled to form thematic … Read more >>

  Observation by Chalicea Nine consecutive clues contain an extra word that is not required for the solution. Read in clue order, the initial letters of those words will identify the observation that … 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 >>

Kruger’s puzzle takes us into the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations this week. The preamble was fairly short and clear.  It stated: Twelve clues contain a misprint in their definition. The correct letters, in … Read more >>

Is this the start of Ladies’ month? (About this time last year we had consecutive puzzles from Nutmeg, Chalicea, Vismut and Skylark.)   Preamble: Corrections to be made to single letter misprints in … Read more >>

Ground Force by Ifor All clues bar five contain either a single or two consecutive extra letters to be removed, always from a single word, and leaving a shorter word. When read in … 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 >>