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This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

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Listener 4328: Reductio Ad Absurdum By Stick Insect

AHearer | 18:04 Fri 09th Jan 2015 | Crosswords

28 Answers

The title just about sums up my feelings about this one: sorry, Stick Insect, but I was hardly into gear before I finished. Perhaps we'll see a few newcomers to the Listener fold encouraged by an easier-than-usual puzzle.

Stuck On This One I Cryptic 1222

Messenger 501 Friday January 9Th 2015

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trux

....alternative sources of such relief could be found at the IQ (Off and On by Nutmeg) or at the EV (Observation by Nudnix) ... both recommended!

UglyUncle

Has Stick Insect been taking horticultural advice from Dipper? The title was indeed a fairly broad hint, but like others who have commented I appreciated both the ease of solving and the amusing finale.

IainGrace

Agree with upsetter.

Bonus for us this week with a win in The Inquisitor.

millman

Without giving anything away should the resulting instruction be taken absolutely literally particularly given the title?

borealis

Required for the Listener: literacy, reasoning & logic, general knowledge .... and humour and perhaps some serendipity. Now I happen to think the last two are important, so I really enjoy puzzles like this one and last weeks. But looking back over 2014, I find the very best puzzles, in terms of enjoyment (sense of achievement?) for me, are more complex. For best of the year, I have six to nominate: 4286 (Radix - Fair Exchange), 4297(Aramis - Tetris), 4299(Stick Insect - PI), 4307(Wan - Prime spiral), 4312 (Rood - Carbon) and 4326 (Sabre’s coincidence). Any thoughts, anyone?

jim360

I'd need to see the solution on 4326 before commenting -- I think there was too much ambiguity, or at least there seemed to be, so that the final solution wasn't entirely clear. At least two or three plausible entries for the middle column.

Stick Insect's Pi puzzle was well-crafted but a short-cut to (most of) the final grid was possible. Otherwise I agree that those should be up there. Rood's effort would have got my vote, I think.

Cruncher

Reminds me of a puzzle by Ploutos many years ago although that one was a little less obvious. Hopefully not too many transcription errors when I send in my entry..