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Listener No. 4520: My Retirement Plan By Artix

I enjoyed the endgame a little more than the puzzle. Some slightly weak clues, I thought, but the finish was a delight.

Listener 4519: X By Schadenfreude

Pencil sharpened, letters entered. Puzzle done. This approach seems to work! The finish was intriguing and the clues were OK, although I wasn't totally convinced by the approach that Schadenfreude...

Flocker14

Listener 4517 - In Transit By Agricola

This was less fearsome than the preamble suggested it was going to be. All done and dusted apart from seeing how the switching of letter and symbol works - I'll leave that till tomorrow. An odd...

midgler

Listener 4516 - A Defter Premier By Arden

Not like me to be done on Friday, still less posting first (if indeed I have). I found this very straightforward, but rather tedious, with lots of the same operation, occasionally speeded up with a...

starwalker

Listener 4515 - Way Out By Verbascum

Much easier than last week's offering, but with a nice mix of easy and trickier clues. It also showed that the Chambers CDROM has had its day in a way, as the boundary is not there, but it is in the...

Hagen

Listener 4514 Cordon By Colleague

Nice theme and some excellent clues but the jumbled entries, combined with a serious amount of guess-and-search for the outer ring, made for far too much cold solving for my liking. If it had been...

emcee

Listener Crossword 4513 Lost In Translation By Ottorino

A gentler one this week after last week's humdinger. I enjoyed this; the penny drop and endgame was quite satisfying so thanks to Ottorino. Thanks also for educating me with something I never knew...

Flocker14

Listener 4512

Have finished this more or less and very fine it is too - except that I'm left with several ambiguous cells and no indication that I can see on how to resolve this. The subject of line 2 also eludes...

kdgs2

Listener 4511: Death In The Afternoon By Little Hare

Well that was a nice straightforward puzzle this week. I particularly liked the clueing this time round - my favourite being 20 across. Some of the misprints were very well hidden too. Thanks Little...

Flocker14

Listener 4510

There must be something wrong with the club version - is the preamble missing?

Hagen

Listener 4509 Disappearances By 'eck

I can't find another thread so here goes. What an absolutely brilliant endgame! How setters can achieve such complex constructions so elegantly, I will never know. The denouement went a long way...

IainGrace

Listener 4508 Moon By Encota

A pleasing, if gentle, challenge after previous frustrating weeks. A week’s holiday in early June (much enjoyed) led to us abandoning 4505 with 98% done and little time to tackle 4506. Well done to...

Liathach

Listener 4507 Agreement By Samuel

On the easy side, perhaps

s_pugh

Listener 4506 Multiple Deletions By Ifor

After last week's Sabre I was expecting something simple - wrong! Was head scratching and cold solving for ages until I rumbled the verse and then had the huge PDM. Thought the 18 opposing pairs were...

kdgs2

Listener 4505: Wiggles By Sabre

This had all the elements to make it extremely daunting: Sabre - check; unconventional grid - check; long, complicated preamble - check! And it lived up to its billing. How does Sabre manage to make...

starwalker

Listener 4504: Milky By Malva

After last week's rather harsh welcome home from holiday (perhaps I should have taken two weeks), this was much smoother and more welcome. An interesting mixture of clues, some less obvious to me than...

ToraToraTora

Why Does Oxford Give A Rats April What M A A B O F Non Entity Lammy Thinks?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44221469 If you are good enough you'll get in, simples!...

emcee

Listener Crossword 4503 Property Management

I've only just started to look at this. It immediately occurs to me that those fourth powers are also square numbers so surely they will satisfy both properties. But this isn't allowed according to...

Alekhine

Listener 4502: Never-Ending?

This is curious. All done, all seems OK ... and yet I am a letter out in the endgame. I'll assume that I have made a small error. Perversely, I hope that I have and that there isn't a problem here....

kdgs2

Listener 4501 - Two Solutions By Quinapalus

After being too tired to make much progress on this last night, I made the most of a delayed flight this morning and got there in the end (in both senses!). This was a clever construction, with mostly...

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Listener No. 4520: My Retirement Plan By Artix

Listener 4519: X By Schadenfreude

Listener 4517 - In Transit By Agricola

Listener 4516 - A Defter Premier By Arden

Listener 4515 - Way Out By Verbascum

Listener 4514 Cordon By Colleague

Listener Crossword 4513 Lost In Translation By Ottorino

Listener 4512

Listener 4511: Death In The Afternoon By Little Hare

Listener 4510

Listener 4509 Disappearances By 'eck

Listener 4508 Moon By Encota

Listener 4507 Agreement By Samuel

Listener 4506 Multiple Deletions By Ifor

Listener 4505: Wiggles By Sabre

Listener 4504: Milky By Malva

Why Does Oxford Give A Rats April What M A A B O F Non Entity Lammy Thinks?

Listener Crossword 4503 Property Management

Listener 4502: Never-Ending?

Listener 4501 - Two Solutions By Quinapalus

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