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Harribobs takes us through into the new year …
Preamble: Wordplay in 45 clues leads to the answer plus an extra letter, not entered in the grid. In clue order, extra letters give two instructions. Eighteen artists (three using given names as well as surnames), are represented in the exhibition. Each artist’s piece is square or rectangular and marked in its top right corner by ‘*’ (or ‘A’ for a key piece). The solver must frame all pieces. The website WikiArt.org is recommended.
Our second IQ blog is an Ifor – we’re in for a challenge!
Last week we had Kruger’s 62nd Inquisitor. Kruger is the third most prolific setter in the Inquisitor list. This week we have Phi equalling Schadenfreude’s record of 81 Inquisitors. Unfortunately Schadenfreude is no … Read more >>
Kruger, notching up his sixty-second puzzle in the Inquisitor sequence.
Preamble: Every clue contains a definition and wordplay. Odd-numbered across clues consist of definition/wordplay for another odd-numbered across entry and wordplay/definition for an even-numbered down entry. Likewise, even-numbered down clues consist of definition/wordplay for another even-numbered down entry and wordplay/definition for an odd-numbered across entry.
We have a new setter today. I can’t find any reference to previous puzzles set by Sauce in the fifteensquared records. Sauce’s first act was to present us with a … Read more >>
This is our first IQ blog and to our great relief, we found Vismut’s offering fairly straightforward (by IQ standards!).
We have a puzzle from Poat this week. Poat is an infrequent Inquisitor setter. A look at the Inquisitor index shows that is three and a half years since we last had a … Read more >>
Cranberry made his debut here in 2022 and has since contributed a puzzle twice a year. Preamble: Eight solutions must be thematically transformed before entry to the grid, leaving non-words. Enumerations refer … Read more >>
We have an Inquisitor this week set by Nimrod, one of the pseudonyms used by John Henderson who is the editor of the Inquisitor series. Usually a Nimrod puzzle is quite a challenge … Read more >>
Holy Hole in a Donut! Solvers must highlight a traveller in the completed grid. Clues to two places where he arrived eventfully lack a definition, as do those to his location three days … Read more >>
This is the thirty-second puzzle by Eclogue following the first appearance of this setter in 2012. I have seen reference to Eclogue being the pseudonym for a pair of setters in the past … Read more >>
Since the weekend puzzle changed its name to Inquisitor in 2007, Ifor has now appeared solo 49 times. We look forward to his reaching his half-century. Preamble: Four perimeter answers must each … Read more >>
Intruders by Phi Each of the ten “Intruder” clues leads to an answer modified before entry by the removal of a letter, with the gap closed to form a new word to be … Read more >>
Winter is coming. Wordplay in all but one down clue contains an extra letter that must be removed to enable solving; these letters spell a name and a location associated with an occurrence … Read more >>