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Listener Crossword 4171, Fruitful Recipe by Dipper
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A nice easy start to the New Year, encouraging me to start entering again. If there are people reading this who haven't tried the Listener yet, here's a good place to start - fair clues that take a bit of thinking, a nice endgame and (it has to be for me) a straightforward enough find the hidden message.
Thanks to Dipper, and a good New Year to all. Don't forget the tree comes down today.
Thanks to Dipper, and a good New Year to all. Don't forget the tree comes down today.
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Yes, available in the Times tomorrow or online at five o' clock on Friday if you subscribe to the Times Crossword Club. Indeed this was the gentle first January one we were hoping for after a string of tough ones. Typical of Dipper and certainly one to encourage Listener newcomers. A Happy New Year to all Answerbankeers.
Perhaps a reprise of useful aids for completing the Listener might be useful at the beginning of the year and for beginners. Two from me:
Chambers Dictionary is the foundation resource, referred to here as the Big Red Book, or BRB. Paper's good, electronic is sometimes so useful it feels like cheating. I use the 2003 edition still, sometimes available on Amazon.
The internet has almost made the main reference books redundant: if you have a few words of a key phrase, googling can often produce enlightenment, and in a crossword like this one, the invaluable aid of knowing which words are redundant/misspelt and so on. As it happens, in this one, I got the hidden phrase without googling, but the pattern that emerged was helpful.
It's meant to be fun - happy solving!
Chambers Dictionary is the foundation resource, referred to here as the Big Red Book, or BRB. Paper's good, electronic is sometimes so useful it feels like cheating. I use the 2003 edition still, sometimes available on Amazon.
The internet has almost made the main reference books redundant: if you have a few words of a key phrase, googling can often produce enlightenment, and in a crossword like this one, the invaluable aid of knowing which words are redundant/misspelt and so on. As it happens, in this one, I got the hidden phrase without googling, but the pattern that emerged was helpful.
It's meant to be fun - happy solving!
I feel like an established member of the Friday Club now.
I live near enough to Green Lane to be able to consider driving over and delivering my entry by hand before midnight, but Mrs Alekhine has sensibly pointed out that, in this instance, being able to do it is equivalent to actually doing it.
Nevertheless ...
I live near enough to Green Lane to be able to consider driving over and delivering my entry by hand before midnight, but Mrs Alekhine has sensibly pointed out that, in this instance, being able to do it is equivalent to actually doing it.
Nevertheless ...
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