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Listener No 4412: Analogy By Nod

I thought I was doing so well when I had A-Z identified using a nice logical process, and working carefully enough that I didn't have to backtrack at any point. It then took me just as long to fill in...
21:02 Fri 19th Aug 201615 answers, last by BMACMAC 15:49 Sun 28th Aug 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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Warden

Listener 4410

I've never finished this early before - but it was my era!
17:45 Fri 05th Aug 201623 answers, last by Scree 22:27 Wed 10th 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 4407: Ad Nauseam By Chalicea

Nice straightforward clues, so a fairly quick grid fill, with totally unambiguous instructions to follow for the endgame. I had come across the theme before, and I thought this was a very neat...
17:14 Fri 15th Jul 201622 answers, last by icynorth 20:56 Tue 19th 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 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...
17:13 Fri 01st Jul 201625 answers, last by Alekhine 23:36 Sun 03rd Jul 2016
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Listener No. 4404: Earthquakes As Well By Tut

I thought things were going well until I ground to a halt in the top right corner -- even having the theme identified didn't help me much. Finally got there, though. I hadn't come across the poem...
18:35 Fri 24th Jun 201615 answers, last by icynorth 19:42 Tue 28th Jun 2016
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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...
21:13 Fri 17th Jun 201615 answers, last by crucifer 16:49 Fri 24th Jun 2016
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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,...
18:07 Fri 10th Jun 201623 answers, last by aldanna 20:40 Sun 26th Jun 2016
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Listener 4400: Three Steps To Heaven By Dysart

I'm not really surprised that no one has posted yet, as this was something of a toughie. I think that I have it all now (at least I have a grid that fulfills the requirements). At first I thought that...
16:14 Sat 28th May 201618 answers, last by petefoxes 15:56 Fri 03rd Jun 2016
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Listener No 4399: Square Time Sums By Oyler

Thanks Oyler for an enjoyable workout. Pretty clear which rows and columns are intended, but I can't help feeling that I'm missing something....
17:19 Fri 20th May 201620 answers, last by satori 15:01 Thu 02nd Jun 2016
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Listener No 4398: Boxing Characters By Mountain Ledges

This was real fun. I'd have struggled with the objects without Google (I understand that other search engines are available). The clues were generally fairly straightforward, though I was held up for...
18:30 Fri 13th May 201616 answers, last by Postigod 23:31 Tue 17th May 2016
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Listener 4395: 6 Across By Shackleton

I thought I might be in for a bit of grid-staring, but the penny dropped after about half an hour. The amount of thematic material and the construction of the messages is most impressive. A worthy...
22:54 Fri 22nd Apr 201625 answers, last by sunny-dave 22:44 Tue 10th May 2016
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Listener No 4394: Against Expectatios By Duck

I had to do a lot of cold solving before I could be sure which were the rogues, but once they were identified it all fell into place quite neatly. A few words to add to the vocabulary, too. Many...
20:27 Fri 15th Apr 201628 answers, last by olichant 13:49 Thu 21st Apr 2016
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Listener No. 4393: Vingt-Et-Un By Little Hare

Another pleasant puzzle, with unambiguous clues and a pretty, if straightforward, end-game. Thanks to Little Hare, both for the puzzle and for sending me back to the source of the message....
17:31 Fri 08th Apr 201627 answers, last by tbayliss 13:42 Tue 12th Apr 2016
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Listener No 4392: A Conversation By Kevgar

Nice straightforward clues, and a theme that never fails to raise a smile. Familiarity with the theme, guessed early, made is possible to see where some clashes were going to be before both...
17:19 Fri 01st Apr 201628 answers, last by Scree 07:55 Sun 10th Apr 2016
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rayc

Mephisto 2900

Always one. 7a) We gather beams fell (4) I have RA-E.I can only think of RAZE. Thanks in advance for any help....
13:50 Sun 27th Mar 20166 answers, last by TheFrogman 14:50 Mon 28th Mar 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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