Listener 4228 : Detective Work By Ilver

[jockie]

Well, that was fun! Surely I'm not the first in the teatime club?

[JackDeCrow]

One of the fastest ever for me - mostly because I thought they'd forgotten the preamble and I wanted to see how far I could get without it before it appeared!

[starwalker]

Almost at the end - then I can go back to my problem with the Magpie. Thanks Ilver, that was fun.

[Zabadak]

A curious one this: not too tricky to see what's going on, a few slightly ambiguous clues that may or may not be thematic, and ( I think - I could be wrong) no real need to grind out the final instruction to get the theme words. But pleasant to solve and pretty neat, thanks to setter. Congrats Jockie on being first past (or to) the post!

[jim360]

Completed grid -- I hope! But still struggling to decipher the full set of 20d letters needed to finish off the puzzle and get the theme. Even so a wonderful puzzle so far and I hope I can make the final breakthrough this evening after dinner.

[trux]

Great fun, and masterly devised clues, all combining to make a most pleasing gridfill, undoubtedly speeded up by my ongoing February sobriety. Thankfully a lot easier than Ilver's puzzles in the Magpie (not least because this is only in two dimensions), but that's no bad thing in my book - many thanks, Mr. I

[TheBear69]

Yes, that was a fun one. Thanks Ilver!

[AHearer]

One of those odd ones where the grid fill and theme are so straightforward that they leave one feeling uneasy and force one to go back and parse every clue in detail just to check whether the latent instructions change everything. Good fun -- thank you, Ilver.

[aldanna]

Ta-daa! Made the Friday Club! Fun but not really too hard.

[jim360]

An ambiguity over one misprint was throwing me off for a bit but all sorted now. A return to the Friday club. Very nice puzzle, Thanks Ilver.

[aldanna]

Nothing to do with this puzzle but can anyone more into technology than I (i.e. everyone) tell me whether if I buy a Kindle, or other e-reader, I can put the BRB and Bradfords on it as well as novels? And is it then convenient to use?

[AndrewG-S]

You can put the brb on an iPad and it is reasonably convenient. Bradfords I think is only available on the franklin. I don't think any work on the kindle, although am not up to speed on the latest kindle fire.

[aldanna]

Thank you, Andrew. I just thought it might work - it would have been very handy for when I go away.

[tenflags]

I started in the same vein as JDC and had same misgivings as AH.
Still good fun and makes room for the rugby..

[Alekhine]

It feels like there should be more to this than seems apparent.

All done, but maybe tomorrow will bring enlightenment.

[IainGrace]

At least no ambiguity in the rubric this week.

[Ruthrobin]

Aldnna, I have BRB on my iPad and use Bradford there via Kindle so that is a good way to take both with me when we travel (even on the iPhone though I had that stolen last time we were travelling - they are apparently the favourite thieves' target of the moment).

[Japp]

I was thinking a while back that it was strange I'd never seen a listener on this subject. Quick and fun but I thought it was a shame that an obvious relevant quotation wasn't somehow incorporated in the grid.

[upsetter]

we share others' uncertainty.
Full grid and theme help with the preamble, but the grid hints at more, without which it is difficult to see how the theme applies coherently

[teuchter2]

I finished the grid last night, but hadn't worked through all the clues to find the necessary information. I was convinced that the theme was going to be something other than it proved to be - I had miscounted the letters in another example of the same thing! I now have it right, though still haven't quite worked everything out.

[neutralistic]

Sadly, thanks to not being allowed to subscribe to the crossword club, and our usual source's subscription having run out and not been allowed to re-subscribe, we have only just been able to purchase the newspaper and have finally found the crossword in the masses of paper and magazines. Now scanning it in and need to print off on different sheets before we can even start. Not happy!

P.S. This is our first post, we are usually lurkers but are very cross about the demise of the crossword club subscription!