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Listener 4166, Brief Appearances by Schadenfreude
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Looks like a hefty and interesting challenge this week from a renowned setter. How many Friday Clubbers will there be with this one? Good luck to all.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Splendid, splendid. Didn't really crack into this until the wee small, mildly sleepless hours of Sunday morning, as both Friday night and Saturday were otherwise occupied. Astonishing construction, no ambiguities in preamble or grid (it can be done!) and right up there in the best of the year. No Z cup for me this week!
I'm in Aldanna's situation of having completed the grid (though not too happy about 49) and not knowing how to implement the message, despite being very familiar with the theme. Would the message be clearer with the insertion of a conjunction? No idea which nine cells need a letter-change. I'm also mystified by the four projecting cells. Perhaps inspiration will come after a snifter, dram, tot or nipperkin.
A novel method of concealing a message that makes the construction all the more impressive since it added further constraints to what went into the grid compared to misprints or extra words in the clues. For me it was a bit of a slog but that might be due to a persistent cold. I prefer puzzles with a fewer clues and more of a challenge at the end once the grid is filled – a vote for Klein bottles and Nibor’s classic of last week. Jockie – only two red herrings?
Wow. It was a long hard slog to complete the grid over the weekend in tandem with a fellow solver, but got there in the end. Endgame was fairly pleasant, having quickly guessed at the central part of the theme as soon as I saw the past part of the 22-letter message, and a nice way to fit it all in. Not my favourite, but only because I would have on my own been stumped by the cluing.
Contendo - about the four projections - all will be revealed...
Out of interest, what makes the 2011 BRB so "disappointing", apparently? I've nothing to compare it with, to be fair, but seems fairly typical of a dictionary to me.
Contendo - about the four projections - all will be revealed...
Out of interest, what makes the 2011 BRB so "disappointing", apparently? I've nothing to compare it with, to be fair, but seems fairly typical of a dictionary to me.
Nearly there! A good fair challenge, if gruelling at times, and a pleasing combination of a well-flagged theme but suitable delay before the dropped penny had its moment and the expected material could be pencilled in. Congrats to Schadenfreude who I hope doesn't quite take that attitude to our sufferings... And on to CAM in a moment.
jim360 - re 2011 edition, I think the main problems are that stupid section stuck slap bang in the middle of the M's, the omission of the formerly available 'some first names' appendix with its useful name derivations, and the quirky highlighting of words seemingly picked at random at the whim of the editors. Whilst Chambers has probably never been a 'typical dictionary', if it does aspire to being that then why try to tell users what particular words seem to be interesting in the editors' eyes?
Content apart, I'm also not over keen on the feel of my copy - the pages just seem that much flimsier than in my trusty older editions, and I wonder if it has similar staying power.
Content apart, I'm also not over keen on the feel of my copy - the pages just seem that much flimsier than in my trusty older editions, and I wonder if it has similar staying power.
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