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Listener 4689 Great Western By Buff

A decent puzzle with a good mixture of clue difficulty. The combinations produced results that I had been unaware of before. It's amazing what you don't notice! Thanks, Buff....

Hagen

Listener 4688 Harry East By Lath

What an amazing construction! Not a particularly hard puzzle, though no walk in the park either, with PDMs galore. I am a total incompetent with the theme, though even I knew enough not to have to...

upsetter

Listener 4687 - Best Practice By Ares

Great fun evoking happy memories of one's youth.

Hagen

Listener 4685 To Good Friends By Little Hare

The leporine one always comes up with good puzzles and this didn't disappoint. I found this tricky, not least that it took me a fair while to see how the jumbles could be entered. There are variant...

Philoctetes

Listener 4684 Excess By Aedites

Straightforward perhaps, but well put together with some nice clues and good misprints. One of those that hooked you and kept you in till the last letter. thanks Aedites

upsetter

Listener 4683 Diversions By Dysart

A veritable cornucopia of thematic material. Bravo, Dysart....

upsetter

Listener 4681 1 41 6:10 By Colleague

Phew - just finished. A bit of light relief, so now back to last week's monster. Thanks, Colleague....

Hagen

Listener 4680 Manhunt By Shark

Utterly brilliant! Tough clues and uncertainties in the placing of entries made for a slow, but steady grid fill, and this was rewarded many times over by a stunning endgame. Usually I quail when I...

emcee

Listener 4679 Basic Fact By Opsimath

Oh dear ... well that didn't take very long. Where's The Listener puzzle this week?...

upsetter

Listener 4678 Bleak Expectations By Mira

Great fun - bags of thematic material and an amusing endgame. Thanks, Mira....

Hagen

Listener 4677 Variety Show By Enigmatist

I can't find another thread even though this puzzle has taken me 15 hours over two days. So here goes. I have never spent this long on any crossword - not even when I started with the Listener 25...

HawkCrossword

Listener 4672 Form..ation By Mr E

A very enjoyable extra word puzzle, made challenging by excellent clues throughout - thanks, Mr E! The endgame is not difficult to spot, but I don't understand why we need to highlight the...

Hagen

Listener 4671 Ours By Xanthippe

A terrifying preamble. Ugh. Jumbles. Double ugh. Definition/letter mix clues. Ugh to the nth power. Yet this was brilliant! Once the method of entry of the across revealed itself, a smile was...

emcee

Listener 4670 Consequence By Ferret

A straightforward gridfill with some attitude added in the endgame. I thought the final part was clever; one of those "you know when it's right" moments hits you. Thanks, Ferret....

IainGrace

Listener 4669

My better half cracked what was going on at an early stage. Good fun.

Hagen

Listener 4667 Classicist By Gorrag

Extremely difficult, and unless I've missed something after hours of searching, a certain amount of insider knowledge is necessary to understand some of the thematic connections. I don't possess that...

upsetter

Listener 4666 Octet By Hedge-Sparrow

A much lighter workout that the last two weeks but tremendous fun all the same. Thanks Hedge-sparrow....

Hagen

Listener 4663 Blurred Lines By Skylark

Can’t find a thread so here goes… After last week’s masterpiece from Android, I didn’t envy the setter whose puzzle would follow. So much to live up to, so perhaps the editors wouldn’t bother and...

perseverer

Listener Crossword 4662 Hungry By Android

A stunning piece of setting, especially if Android is indeed a new setter. Perhaps not especially difficult to get the initial grid fill, but a great achievement to then enable it to produce all real...

HawkCrossword

Listener 4659 - Me And My Puzzlers By Wan

A proper workout this week - tough clues throughout, even with clear definitions, but an impressive endgame - thanks Wan! I had a couple of false entries which hampered me for a while, and I still...

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Listener 4689 Great Western By Buff

Listener 4688 Harry East By Lath

Listener 4687 - Best Practice By Ares

Listener 4685 To Good Friends By Little Hare

Listener 4684 Excess By Aedites

Listener 4683 Diversions By Dysart

Listener 4681 1 41 6:10 By Colleague

Listener 4680 Manhunt By Shark

Listener 4679 Basic Fact By Opsimath

Listener 4678 Bleak Expectations By Mira

Listener 4677 Variety Show By Enigmatist

Listener 4672 Form..ation By Mr E

Listener 4671 Ours By Xanthippe

Listener 4670 Consequence By Ferret

Listener 4669

Listener 4667 Classicist By Gorrag

Listener 4666 Octet By Hedge-Sparrow

Listener 4663 Blurred Lines By Skylark

Listener Crossword 4662 Hungry By Android

Listener 4659 - Me And My Puzzlers By Wan

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