Inquisitor 1114

[Ardboe]

With great difficulty I have completed grid but I'm confused about some M's and W's - any hints please?

[twencelas]

You need to find the instruction for the across clues from the misprints to make sense of it all. It does make sense eventually and is a rather neat puzzle..

[Ardboe]

thank you Twencelas

[Indy-trier]

Hi Ardboe and twencelas
I too have completed the grid and have found that the down misprints make perfect sense. I've also entered the relevant across clues consistently so it all fits together. I do have a misprint letter for each of the across clues but am not sure I've made much sense of them so far! Am assuming that the M/W thing is something to do with RAF at Middle Wallop. Am I way off beam?

[s436]

I can't say that this one was unambiguous, all the same - or particularly satisfying. I wonder if was the only one left with a kind of "really? that was it?" feeling.

[s436]

Sorry, I-t, my answer predates my reading of yours, if you see what I mean. Your RAF reference is entirely lost on me, all the same, I'm afraid.

[twencelas]

s436 - what is the ambiguity you refer to?

[twencelas]

Indy-Trier - you are, I'm afraid way off-bem as you say

[turnerjmw]

I couldn't see any ambiguity, either, twencelas, and I too thought it extremely clever. As you say, the across misprints are the key, and anyone who fails to find the instruction will probably have the wrong solution.

[Ripper]

The RAF thing is the extra letters left out of the down clues.
I still can't make head nor tail of the instruction in the across clues, I'm pretty sure I've got all the right letters but they make gobbldegooch (is that how it's spelt?)
I'm getting frustrated!

[turnerjmw]

Ripper, the corrected letters in the across clues spell a single word. It's easy to get a couple wrong. You already know it has ten letters, because there are 22 across clues and a dozen have to be entered a certain way, so if you put the letters you are sure of in Chambers Word Wizard, with question marks for the others, you should be able to find it.

[Ripper]

THanks Turner jmw, I'll try that!

[Indy-trier]

Thanks tewncelas and turnerjmw. Yes - the RAF thing was way off beam!!! This is a neat puzzle but was thrown at first when I found the word for the across clues as two of the letters (C & D) don't actually work in the purest sense. Fun just the same.

[Mysterons]

....... but they don't need to 'work', as they are unches. The main weakness of this puzzle is the preamble. It isn't the misprints that describe the entry methods, rather the corrected misprints.