Inquisitor

Bit of a mix-up, so an emergency late blog. Please forgive any mistakes! Wonderful puzzle from Ploy, but you would have to be a REAL anorak (as in trainspotter) to solve it without … Read more >>

Excellent crossword! Quite testing and certainly fun, with enough continuous progress to keep you interested. There were five types of clue. 1. Five “appendectomies” where the last letter had to be deleted before … Read more >>

Solving time: about an hour I solved a fair number of clues cold and then wondered what was going on, but then saw that all the answers with different lengths to the grid … Read more >>

I had so solve this puzzle immediately after solving another Nutmeg puzzle so I was hoping for a very different theme. The preamble suggested choices in solving clues and in entering answers. At … Read more >>

One of the Hihobas found a nicely shaped box on his doorstep this week, following Inquisitor 59, so a small celebration will be held! The theme to number 61 stuck out a mile! The first two … Read more >>

The title – Proceedings – alludes to ‘Carry on’, so this crossword was an entertaining romp down the history of ‘Carry On …….’ films, of which there were twenty-nine original and one compilation … Read more >>

Solving time: no recorded – let’s call it 90 minutes With lots of articles in the papers, it didn’t take much effort to guess a possible theme here – the spare letters message … Read more >>

The preamble to the puzzle indicated that it included 12 unclued entries, four of which (11a, 35a, 22d and 24d) would represent a recent sequence in the correct order. Four pairs of the … Read more >>

After three pretty difficult ones, this was a bit of relief. Most of the “normal” clues were pretty strightforward. One piece of wordplay eluded me for a long time – “Fourteenth place on … Read more >>

It’s always difficult starting a puzzle with several different clues types. Here we had extra words in eight clues, misprints in six and no definition in two. That still leaves plenty of normal … Read more >>

This was a corker!! I’m still not completely convinced that we’ve got it right, but here goes. The missing letters of the across clues instructed you to “INCLUDE PUNCTUATION” while the down clues … Read more >>

The clues for this Seasonal Show were presented in three blocks: Firstly, an unnumbered set of clues to the whole of each of Rows 1, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 12 with the … Read more >>

It’s that time of year! “In the Bleak Midwinter” last week and “The Twelve Days of Christmas” this week. Two of our tiumvirate went to the Temple Church Choir’s carol service at the … Read more >>

This looked like it was going to be a tough puzzle but the theme dropped out quickly and helped me to fill in most of the answers. Initially I considered that Noel might … Read more >>

Solving time: a couple of hours, maybe a bit less. Experienced Inquisitor solvers will know already that Eddie (from Eddie the Eagle, referring to the Indie masthead as well as the ski-jumper) is … Read more >>