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Listener 4241 Skippers By Ifor
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I cannot find a thread for the puzzle so expect I will be redirected. I think I have this all completed although not 100% on the final step, so this needs a bit more thought. Spent ages on a huge thematic red herring. An enjoyable challenge, thanks ifor.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well that was pretty hard I thought - the gridfill was by no means trivial and the theme eluded me for a good while too - but at least it was a genuine pdm rather than a google slog that revealed it.
Once there the rebuilding and nominal replacement were easy enough and then another flash of inspiration gave the expected thematic number.
Cracking workout - many thanks to Ifor for a very clever puzzle.
dave x
Once there the rebuilding and nominal replacement were easy enough and then another flash of inspiration gave the expected thematic number.
Cracking workout - many thanks to Ifor for a very clever puzzle.
dave x
I was quite late to this but agree that it has been an excellent puzzle. Still struggling with the 'nominal replacement elsewhere' part of the instruction, though I have successfully rebuilt the block of cells and understood the creation of the thematic number. Grid-staring to try to work out that final element.
For a long time I thought I'd be stuck with 43A incomplete, no message found, and no idea how to rebuild blocks or find a thematic number.
Eventually I read the preamble properly and found the message, which didn't help much. This morning I spotted something on Google which at last explained it all. Rebuilding the block of cells was easy enough, as was finding the thematic number ( having spotted a significant number as I researched the Wikipedia entry).
But I too am stuck on the 'nominal replacement elsewhere', and I need to catch tomorrow's post. Saw a promising four-letter name which just needed a letter changing - but it didn't leave a real word in the crossing answer. Hmm...
Eventually I read the preamble properly and found the message, which didn't help much. This morning I spotted something on Google which at last explained it all. Rebuilding the block of cells was easy enough, as was finding the thematic number ( having spotted a significant number as I researched the Wikipedia entry).
But I too am stuck on the 'nominal replacement elsewhere', and I need to catch tomorrow's post. Saw a promising four-letter name which just needed a letter changing - but it didn't leave a real word in the crossing answer. Hmm...
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