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hankir | 18:03 Sat 24th Apr 2021 | Crosswords
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Each clue has an extra letter is word play. Clues are in Alphabetic order.

Defeat following trouble for Trump? (4) Starts between E and I.
Nearly all senior guys, on retirement, are annoying (6) Starts N or O.
Vehicle controlled by computer from the back (4) Starts T?
Very sensitive thermionic device (5) Starts T, U, or V

I do not have cells to place three of the above in the grid.
Also extra letters give me 4, 4, 7, 4, (9 I cannot decipher), 5, 7.

How do the 9 break up?

Thanks.


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Just figured out second clue (Nearly all senior...)
F + US word for 'trouble' = (r)OIL [this answer isn't entered in the grid].
'smart' = 'controlled by computer' [reversed] TRAM(s)
V + 'sensitive' = AL(i)VE
...also, VALVE isn't entered in the grid.
The message is as you say, hankir (4,4,7,4) + 4,2,3,5,7
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Thanks ProfessorM.
I had one extra letter wrong. Now have the phrase but have not figured out if it is Thor or Sigmund. A little hint please.

Also I do not see similarities in five words that are not put in the grid. What connects them?
There's a common 4 letter synonym that connects the 5 answers not entered in the grid - its plural describes the situation after the grid is filled -
'Five ?????? left'
The 'clue' is tricky, it gives a name (2 words) -
A 4 letter slang word for 'prison' + an obscure 5 letter word for the Viking ship.
... the synonym is easier to get if you focus on foil, page and needle ('pine needle'?) the other 'p' word is an alt. spelling of 'paan'.
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Thanks ProfessorM.
I did find the word. Did not know it meant Valve.
I get the individual when I googled the phrase. 4, 5.
I found the 20 cells showing two works.

Thanks for your help.

I am finding Listener tough. Have solved most of the clues but enciphering seems difficult.
Yes, I found Listener pretty tricky too.
For the encoding I took a leap of faith that the most used single-letter in the initial grid (the 'i') would code to 'e'.
The title of the puzzle is also a clue - it gives you 2 of the double-letter ciphers.
The thing that slightly irked me about the puzzle was the three fairly obscure double-definition clues - I think that's a bit much when there's so much cold-solving to be done.

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