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Listener No 4424: Fieldwork By Ferret

I was a bit later than usual getting started (shopping -- AARGH!) so was glad to find a reasonably straightforward puzzle from Ferret. Thank you, that was fun....

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Listener No 4423: A Bit Up In The Air By Phi

A much easier ride than last week's, but with a very neat anagram to settle the final step. I had to work back from the phrase and its anagram to sort out two of the extra words. Many thanks to Phi....

djawhufc

Spectator 2284

Morning all Fieldfare for us with a quote and author to find. Enjoy DJA...

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Listener No. 4421: Post-It Note By Tramp

Another entertaining puzzle, with nice treatment of the thematic elements. Nothing too challenging, but the extra words were quite smoothly integrated into the clues. I must do some checking, to see...

djawhufc

Spectator 2280

Morning Good old Doc. Congratulations to a worthy winner- well done Jacqui. Enjoy DJA...

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Listener No 4417: Hms Arcady By Hedge-Sparrow

A lucky identification after half a dozen letters of the poet and I was off to a good start as I learned the poem at school, and these things never leave you! As Hedge-sparrow has crammed such a mass...

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Listener No 4416: Up To 10 Items? By Wan

I don't suppose you'd believe me if I said I'd had to break off to cook the supper, so I'll confess that with most issues resolved and the highlighting done I had two irritating letters still to enter...

djawhufc

Spectator 2278

Morning all To solve or not to solve that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous wordplay. Enjoy DJA...

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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...

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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...

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Listener No 4413: Edit By Jago

I thought this was a very nice idea, but I wish there had been more consistency. Perhaps it wasn't possible to find a fourth theme word that would fit -- it's not my area of expertise. Some nice...

Bob454

Farmers Guardian 837

farmers guardian 837 050816 29a. this is fed to animals but thrown up, undigested by owls (6) p?l?e? I think the answer may be pellet, but can anyone explain why ?...

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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...

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Listener No. 4410: Paint My Old Lp By Nudd

Nothing too tricky in the clues -- all precise and not too many obscure words. When I'd followed the final instruction I wasn't convinced, but checking the work in question shows that it's really...

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Listener 4410

I've never finished this early before - but it was my era!

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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...

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Listener No. 4405: Revision By Tangram

Nice and straightforward. I felt we could have been left to work out for ourselves which entry was reversed, and I wasn't too keen on the cryptic clues to the second line, but it's always good to be...

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Listener No. 4403: No Offence By Artix

That was quite a workout! Unlike several recent Listeners where an early guess at the theme helped a lot with the gridfill, this time I could not tackle the endgame until I had worked my way through...

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Listener No. 4402: Right And Wrong By Tnap

Very satisfying. Some very good clues with some neatly hidden misprints. I'd forgotten that quotation, and was delighted to be reminded of it. Early on I thought there was going to be an ambiguity,...

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Listener No. 4401: Literal Spling By Waterloo

That was fun -- quite a quick solve, but I liked the idea. The one slight niggle I have is that the literal spling has not been 100% carried out -- unless I've made mistakes in at least two entries....

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Listener No 4424: Fieldwork By Ferret

Listener No 4423: A Bit Up In The Air By Phi

Spectator 2284

Listener No. 4421: Post-It Note By Tramp

Spectator 2280

Listener No 4417: Hms Arcady By Hedge-Sparrow

Listener No 4416: Up To 10 Items? By Wan

Spectator 2278

Listener No 4415: Right And Left By Ploy

Listener No 4414: Quads Ii By Shark

Listener No 4413: Edit By Jago

Farmers Guardian 837

Listener No 4411: Extra English By Raffles

Listener No. 4410: Paint My Old Lp By Nudd

Listener 4410

Listener No. 4406: .....

Listener No. 4405: Revision By Tangram

Listener No. 4403: No Offence By Artix

Listener No. 4402: Right And Wrong By Tnap

Listener No. 4401: Literal Spling By Waterloo

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