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Listener 4680 Manhunt By Shark
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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 see "code" in the preamble - the only job I'd get at Bletchley Park would be as lavatory cleaner - but in this case the decoding was fun. It helps that there is useful and accessible material online to confirm the final stages. Many thanks, Shark.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I agree entirely with emcee - a classic Shark puzzle and one of the toughest/best of the year.
It was, indeed, everything that the spicy borefest aspired to be, tough clues, arcane vocab and a tricky gridfill - but it was always scrupulously fair and the thematic PDM and content were well worth the effort required to unravel them - rather than the tortured limping towards a not very interesting conclusion which 4677 required.
Thanks Shark - excellent Listener.
It was, indeed, everything that the spicy borefest aspired to be, tough clues, arcane vocab and a tricky gridfill - but it was always scrupulously fair and the thematic PDM and content were well worth the effort required to unravel them - rather than the tortured limping towards a not very interesting conclusion which 4677 required.
Thanks Shark - excellent Listener.
Well, that was a blinder. I found the clues very hard and mostly had to reverse engineer them from likely answers - and even with all the across clues solved I struggled to figure out where the down answers were hiding.
I wonder if anyone else was amused by the presence of the "small boy", mentioned in one of the main sources, who intervenes at a crucial point in the proceedings and effectively saves the day. Who was he and how on earth was he there?!!
I wonder if anyone else was amused by the presence of the "small boy", mentioned in one of the main sources, who intervenes at a crucial point in the proceedings and effectively saves the day. Who was he and how on earth was he there?!!
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