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Hi Staurologist: As I tried to make clear, when I made my original contribution, there was no other thread when I posted: I always check, and never make assumptions. I recognise the time gap looks long, but sometimes when you search on this board, or look in the relevant place, you see nothing. I'm not interested in hijacking anyone's thread, and while I freely admit I get a bit of a kick from being first here with a solution, I'm not on any kind of ego trip. I did offer mild apology, together with the observation that the other thread seemed to be mostly about not wanting to attempt the thing. I genuinely don't care about being the "right" or "wrong" thread, and if there was a way of withdrawing a question on this board (or even deleting a comment, I might well have done so.
To others, I'm happy to apologise for overstepping the mark on giveaways - I actually think I may well have done this time. My illustration was an attempt to show that this is a fair challenge of a Listener, and to encourage others who might have thought otherwise that this is not just a guessing game. Maybe there is a knack, but there's also a Listener-like logic process going on. In most clues there's a fairly obvious place for the interruption, or a set of sequential letters that can easily be redistributed to form a new and smoother sense. I enjoyed it so much I tackled the Ximenes PD grid referred to earlier (cheers to theBuzz!) - much harder but still doable.
Still friends?