Inquisitor

The complex rubric read: Multiple letter clashes occur in eight cells, each creating a thematic word; definitions for these and definitions of an associated word for each appear as superfluous single words in … Read more >>

Ifor is a fairly prolific Inquisitor setter who often introduces different devices into his clues.  Today he has given us three different types of clue over and above the standard ones.     … Read more >>

Vagans – a newbie.   Preamble: A serious ascent is being made, in three stages, which requires excess baggage to be shed. Wordplay in 25 clues generates an extra letter not to be … Read more >>

  For Her Eyes Only by Artix Initial letters of single extra words in 11 clues may be rearranged to give the author of a series of works whose eponym – omitting an … Read more >>

The most complex and confusing rubric of the year! The grid has top and bottom halves. In each half, six entries occupying cells in that half are clued without a common definition. The … Read more >>

Jaques is a new setter in the Inquisitor series, so it will be a learning process for all solvers today, as we seek to understand the cluing technique.  I note though that there … Read more >>

Kruger – a week late for kenmac to add to his duels with the setter.   Preamble: In twenty clues, some or all of the definition has been jumbled with an extra letter. … Read more >>

  Across the Board by Opsimath Clues are listed in alphabetical order of their answers, which are to be fitted into the grid wherever they will go. Ten thematic answers (two of 2 … Read more >>

Complex rubric: Each of 15 clues [none to five-letter entries] contains an extra word having only one letter, sometimes repeated, not present in that clue’s answer. In clue order these letters identify the … Read more >>

Vismut completes the run of four Inquisitors by lady setters.       The preamble told us that wordplay in six across clues and seven down clues leads to the answer with one … Read more >>

Skylark, the third of four female setters in Ladies’ month (although this July has five Saturdays so there’s room for one more).   Preamble: Symmetrical grid entries contain the endings of four lines … Read more >>

Passing Thought by Nutmeg Each across clue has a single-letter misprint in its definition. Correct letters in clue order form a sequence, stripped of its first and last elements, connected with a celebrated … Read more >>

Ladies month’s first offering from Chalicea. Usually relatively simple clues with a nicely constructed grid and theme. Let’s see. Short but sweet rubric which read: With the terribly sad revelation that 41 is … Read more >>

I blogged an Independent by Serpent last Thursday and find that he has also set the Inquisitor being blogged today       Serpent’s puzzles have had a variety of themes , so … Read more >>

Eclogue averages about three Inquisitor puzzles a year of late.   Preamble: When read in clue order, the last letters of extraneous words in every clue provide a partial definition and visual context … Read more >>