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Listener 4146 What it Says by Waterloo

A pretty straightforward solve this week, as 6 or 8 cold solves revealed the likely method of entry. But, a well constructed puzzle, and a nice break after last week's brainbuster. Thank you Waterloo,...
19:14 Fri 15th Jul 201152 answers, last by borealis 11:49 Sun 24th Jul 2011
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EV 975 58, 91 by Syd Lexis

Greetings and salutations! A medium-difficulty EV, I thought. I confess that I don't have the extra letters quite figured out towards the end of the "phrase", but the phrase itself doesn't...
15:56 Sun 10th Jul 201114 answers, last by devadolly 12:30 Fri 15th Jul 2011
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EV 973 Shade by Samuel

For the second week running I found the EV tougher than the Listener! Having the extra letters in the wordplay rather than the clue makes them harder to spot. I got the quote about 2/3 of the way...
16:14 Sun 26th Jun 201111 answers, last by turast 11:27 Wed 29th Jun 2011
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EV 972 Extraction by Oxymoron

Oh no, it's Mr. O! Greetings you Brits, Swiss (honorary) and any Croatians who may be lurking. A difficult EV, I thought, that would not be out of place as a Listener. Many obscure words for answers;...
16:16 Sun 19th Jun 201125 answers, last by Christiana 21:25 Sat 25th Jun 2011
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EV 971 Track by Loda

Can this be the first post on this puzzle? I thought it was very well done; the theme dawned on me very late in the game - I suspect those who caught it early on had an easier time of finding the...
23:43 Sun 12th Jun 201114 answers, last by Christiana 18:16 Thu 16th Jun 2011
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EV 962 Depicting South by Kruger

Proving that they don't need to be too tough to be entertaining. Just enough of a workout to figure out where the spaces went, then a straightforward but pleasing end game. I got 22a early, but I have...
15:46 Sun 10th Apr 201137 answers, last by Christiana 19:26 Fri 15th Apr 2011
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EV 961, Whither Goest Thou? by Charybdis

Back on the toughie track this week, for me anyway. I spent quite a bit of time convincing myself on several of the wordplays - I knew what the extra letter had to be but couldn't see where it was...
17:37 Sun 03rd Apr 201137 answers, last by AndrewG-S 11:31 Thu 14th Apr 2011
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EV 960 Scandal in Bohemia

Hola N&Cers, a fine puzzle today, though the grid fill proceeds pretty rapidly once the "common source" of the 10 is discovered. The "HELP IN ALLEGED COD AREA" seemed...
14:06 Sun 27th Mar 20112 answers, last by dr b 14:12 Sun 27th Mar 2011
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EV 959 Hobson's Choice by Jaques

Our run of tough-but-fun EVs continues this week. Lots of well-concealed misprints. I was a bit leery of "not quite as rendered" but it all works out OK. I have to admit that I was so intent...
15:41 Sun 20th Mar 201135 answers, last by novalis 18:38 Sun 27th Mar 2011
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Listener 4129, Letters Lament by Tangram

Greetings fellow Listenerites, This should be a week free of controversy, I think. A nice solid puzzle, with the three different types of clues keeping things interesting. The two thematic grid...
21:49 Fri 18th Mar 201149 answers, last by logophile 12:20 Mon 28th Mar 2011
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EV 957 Products by Samuel

What a fun puzzle. The final step of turning the interim product into the final product made me laugh. Lots of thematic material and some well concealed misprints - bravo and huzzah!
16:40 Sun 06th Mar 201146 answers, last by logophile 12:57 Wed 16th Mar 2011
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EV 956 Ego Problem by Ifor

Very nice puzzle this week - some hard clues and a lot of thematic material crammed into this one. Lots of cold solving for starters, given that more than half the answers are altered in some way....
16:39 Sun 27th Feb 201133 answers, last by Christiana 11:06 Thu 03rd Mar 2011
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Listener 4126 Arthurian Legend by Corvettes

Wow. Absolutely brilliant. I tried to rotate the rings mentally, but got out the scissors after a few minutes. Then half my letters were upside down, so I printed out a new grid and re-filled it. An...
23:56 Fri 25th Feb 2011112 answers, last by trux 20:00 Tue 08th Mar 2011
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Listener 4125 Elementary Number Theory by Oyler

Elementary, indeed. An easily guessed theme as far as resolving the ambiguities is concerned, leading to a very quick grid fill. The most interesting thing about it was checking the statements against...
22:32 Fri 18th Feb 201176 answers, last by S-matrix 01:45 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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EV 952: Time to Wrap Up

L'threadstarter, c'est moi. I thought this was nicely done, with some harder clues than in past weeks. My only quibble is that the "sixth line" is not exactly accurately...
17:33 Sun 30th Jan 20117 answers, last by turast 04:20 Wed 02nd Feb 2011
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EV 946 Message by Rustic

Good afternoon all. This was certainly a nice challenge. The theme was not surprising but getting to the message took a bit of work - double clues and missing letters! I don't understand the wordplay...
16:33 Sun 19th Dec 201023 answers, last by Jogler 15:27 Thu 23rd Dec 2010
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A Nobel for you Brits

Robert Edwards has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing in vitro fertilization (or fertilisation to you). Why no postings here? Are you all at the pubs toasting Dr. Edwards? Too busy...
19:55 Mon 04th Oct 20107 answers, last by modeller 17:49 Tue 05th Oct 2010
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Listener 4102 Something's Brewing by Poat

Do I get to call firsties this week? I thought this was a nice puzzle. It was a lot easier to get the keyword than I thought it might be, and once you have that everything falls into place pretty...
22:59 Fri 03rd Sep 201057 answers, last by Mysterons 23:43 Sat 11th Sep 2010
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EV 925 Gwent's Tall Yew by Kruger

Good afternoon Mr. and Mrs. UK and all ships at sea.... I thought this was a perfectly fine puzzle, not an earth-shattering PDM but solidly constructed nonetheless. And and am I wrong in seeing an...
15:46 Sun 25th Jul 201055 answers, last by Christiana 23:50 Wed 28th Jul 2010

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