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Brendan, I think you'll enjoy this week's EV....

Good morning Malone,

I've had a quick read through and it looks like another good one. I'll get stuck into it when I get back from the shops.

Can I check I have completed the end game...by finding the two five letter words? Highlight one and delete the other? Is that it?
Enjoyed solving the clues, but slightly disappointed if that’s it.

Highlighting a six-letter word, I'd say...

Six? I think the symmetry of both with 5 works nicely. And if we are talking about the same word, it appears without an e in all the searches I have done.
I had a fantasy I’d be removing all the O’s, (absence of..etc) and changing all the S’s to L or G, and making real words in the grid!

Thanks, Lumen. I chose the longer version because it looks less … English, that's all!

Yes, I too would have liked a slightly bigger finish!

Lumen, I've seen the blog for this puzzle, and your 5-letter word was the correct version. This won't change your slight feeling of anti-climax, of course!

I was going to give you my solution, which I posted to my own blog site a week ago, but I was told "you are not allowed to post links within the first week of signing up and must have posted 5 other posts first".

Anyway, it's only the second Inquisitor I've ever solved (with a bit of help from this thread) and it was knackering! #1644 wasn't too bad but if they're all like this I'm giving up.