I think I have actually completed 4459 Shock Therapy, a Listener crossword which people on this forum think is anything more than a total doddle, so I am chuffed. However, I am struggling to match all...
If I can finish this in time for Friday "Pointless", it is not a worthy Listener. The clues were too simple, less than Times daily standard. Sorry, Calmac...
I am pretty new at the Listener and so was delighted to complete this week's crossword, even if it took me until Tues night! I still do not understand 16 across however, though I have all the letters...
A nice brief escape from reality, not at all frightening. A good one for beginners at the Listener. Many thanks, Aelfre. Main problem is going to be writing small enough!
Just the kind of Listener I happen to like. There may be the usual quibbles about it being on the easy side - and it was indeed possible to work the message backwards having found its author -but...
Lovely puzzle by the Listener editors (Tiburon and Kea). Impressive to think these excerpts were published in the paper. I was thinking as I was solving it that I am still in need of a cryptic clue,...
As ever with Schadenfreude, a great pleasure to solve. I had to backtrack to find a few missing missing letters, though. I wonder whether this was one that was rejected by CAM as too easy (or perhaps...
Wow! After staring at the full grid for hours off and on, I finally saw one of the words...then another..and then I was done. Thanks, Elfman, for a first-rate Listener!
Each week, after I have finished the Times jumbo, I look across at the Listener crossword which they also print on the Mind games page. Just the instructions leave me confused! Do any of you really...
With Shackleton last week and now this puzzle, the Listener is finally picking up pace after a rather slow start to the year. This puzzle is fun. Straightforward fill and a pleasing endgame. Puzzles...
Have solved all the clues and entered letters diagonally and 'in the correct order' in most of the checked cells. I assume letters should also be entered diagonally in the first three corner cells to...