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beresford

Listener 4425

Apologies if I've missed the thread ... but I'm hoping there's a misprint in 5 down. Surely it should be ZJTT?...
22:28 Fri 18th Nov 201623 answers, last by olichant 21:11 Tue 22nd Nov 2016
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Listener No 4422: Buried Treasure By Poat

Sod's law dictated that the last couple of clues that resisted my attack included clashes, so I had to resort to reverse logic from a guess at the instruction to nail those. It took me a while to get...
20:22 Fri 28th Oct 201653 answers, last by Ruthrobin 07:07 Sat 26th Nov 2016
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Listener No 4415: Right And Left By Ploy

I was lucky enough to start the grid fill the right way round, but in any case the correct way is clear once the fill is well under way. Even with the grid full I had to go back over my rather...
18:32 Fri 09th Sep 201618 answers, last by perseverer 17:49 Mon 12th Sep 2016
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Listener No 4414: Quads Ii By Shark

I really enjoyed this one. I was held up a bit in the north-east corner at stage one, got my coloured pens out to keep track of what had to be preserved at stage two, had a chuckle at the elegance of...
20:46 Fri 02nd Sep 201613 answers, last by borealis 13:06 Mon 05th Sep 2016
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Listener No 4411: Extra English By Raffles

That was fun. I made ridiculously heavy weather of the top right-hand quadrant and the two clued entries with clashes, and I had to check a few entries where I was pretty sure of what they had to be...
18:41 Fri 12th Aug 201613 answers, last by borealis 08:10 Wed 17th Aug 2016
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Ruthrobin

Listener No 4409

We have loved every minute of this magical construction. pdm after pdm with a most satisfactory finish. Congratulations to Xanthippe for a superb compilation.
18:53 Fri 29th Jul 201617 answers, last by taittinger 13:55 Tue 02nd Aug 2016
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Ruthrobin

Listener 4408 Serpent

The theme leapt out at us when we had solved just a couple of clues, but this has not rendered this any less enjoyable. With a full grid, we still have to get the pencils out to draw the thematic...
18:35 Fri 22nd Jul 201619 answers, last by borealis 10:34 Wed 27th Jul 2016
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Listener No. 4406: .....

Whew!! Actually, the first Playfair was not too bad, as a code phrase that long tends to lead to a bunch of letters left over that, as long as one or two of them appear in the hints, help a lot. I...
21:48 Fri 08th Jul 201622 answers, last by borealis 17:05 Mon 18th Jul 2016
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Listener Crosswordno 4391: 22Ses Square By Tibea

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,...
19:46 Fri 25th Mar 201636 answers, last by tbayliss 01:50 Sun 03rd Apr 2016
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Ruthrobin

Listener 4385

What a delightful compilation. Thank you dragon. We have really enjoyed this.
23:07 Fri 12th Feb 201629 answers, last by IainGrace 01:51 Wed 24th Feb 2016
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Listener No. 4384: Xl By Harpy

That was a lot of fun. It took me longer than it should have to spot what was going on in the Group B clues, even though I had seen what the instruction told me to do elsewhere. Many thanks, Harpy,...
19:56 Fri 05th Feb 201626 answers, last by contendo 16:24 Tue 09th Feb 2016
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Listener No 4365: General Intelligence By Calmac

What a neat grid construction. I found finding the quotation a bit tedious, but the rest of the puzzle was a total delight, with some cleverly concealed misprints. Many thanks, Calmac....
17:50 Fri 25th Sep 201537 answers, last by towsertaylor 14:14 Wed 30th Sep 2015
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Listener 4361 Two For The Price Of One By Monk

Pretty easy grid fill, and an interesting second puzzle. I do quite enjoy puzzles of this second type, but the ones I have seen before tend to be very trivial. This one was a little more challenging....
18:32 Fri 28th Aug 201533 answers, last by icynorth 10:29 Thu 10th Sep 2015
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trux

Listener 4360 What A Turn-Up! By Ioa

Great fun all the way through. Required only elementary number-crunching so numerophobes should not be put off. And a very neat and satisfyingly unambiguous ending, so thanks all round to IOA for a...
19:23 Fri 21st Aug 201529 answers, last by jim360 15:08 Fri 28th Aug 2015
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Listener No. 4357: Aft By Nutmeg

Some fairly straightforward clues, with a lucky guess at 1d and 27d leading inevitably to 17, made this a quick solve. I was held up for a while by 14d and 24d, but I'm looking forward to a bit of...
17:17 Fri 31st Jul 201528 answers, last by IainGrace 19:04 Wed 05th Aug 2015
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Listener 4356 Mashonaland By Raffles

Some excellent clueing, especially where extra letters were unambiguously indicated. The end result may never win a prize for elegance, even with the speakers revealed, but the gridfill speeds up very...
19:09 Fri 24th Jul 201540 answers, last by IainGrace 17:01 Tue 04th Aug 2015
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TheBear69

Listener 4350 - Revelation Of John By Elfman

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!
06:13 Sat 13th Jun 201534 answers, last by IainGrace 20:05 Sun 21st Jun 2015
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Liststener No. 4349: Black Or White By Pilcrow

Goof fun, with a groan when I saw where the end-game was going. Enough tricky clues to slow the solution process down to a normal Listener pace. Many thanks, Pilcrow....
19:37 Fri 05th Jun 201527 answers, last by IainGrace 10:41 Fri 12th Jun 2015
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TheBear69

Listener 4348 - Quads By Shark

A magnificent follow-up to Shark's Ascot Gold Cup...Thanks for a superb Listener, Shark!
05:50 Sat 30th May 201528 answers, last by crosswhit99 08:28 Wed 10th Jun 2015
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Listener No. 4345: Essentials By Samuel

The length of the preamble was a bit off-putting, but taking my courage in both hands and plunging in showed enough fairly straightforward clues to be able to get started. The last step was a bit...
18:14 Fri 08th May 201530 answers, last by crosswhit99 21:55 Tue 19th May 2015

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