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Liststener No. 4349: Black Or White By Pilcrow

AHearer | 18:37 Fri 05th Jun 2015 | Crosswords

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Goof fun, with a groan when I saw where the end-game was going. Enough tricky clues to slow the solution process down to a normal Listener pace. Many thanks, Pilcrow.

That's Life Issue 23 (All Fours)

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fyellin

"Five unclued entries form a series." Well, they don't form a series, they form a sort of a series. [I'm trying to be very vague.] Even the hidden word (in both its plain and in one of its technical definitions) is a description of the series, not of the five sort-of-series entries.

Things hang well-enough together that I know I have the right answers. But I see no justification for this in the instructions. I've re-read them several times, and can't see why I was supposed to do what I did.

Cruncher

Fyellin - I think the title is the key piece of information

UglyUncle

Surely the title isn't the *key* piece of information - it doesn't 'unlock' anything if you haven't already twigged the theme - but rather a sort of grace note, to confirm the significance of the thematic location.

The sort-of-a-series is a real series (basic Mensa stuff), although it is disappointing that not all of its components can be used thematically in the endgame. However, the preamble does refer solvers to 'the said five entries', which I felt was enough to make the challenge both fair and, dare I say it, sound.

fyellin

Ah, got it. Thanks.

olichant

I confess I found part of the endgame a little tenuous (though doubtless I could be missing something) - but, that regardless, I very much enjoyed the gridfill. Some sneaky and, for me, really very tricky clues - good fun. Thanks, Pilcrow (and sorry if I'm being dim on the endgame).

borealis

Enjoyed this. The title, and a guess at one of the unclued, "unlocked" the theme for me, about half way through. Or rather the main theme - the series took longer. Thanks Pilcrow.

IainGrace

Checking in. Both of us now retired so attention drawn to sorting out various things round that, including building work to extend house. Now back in the groove. Completed grid for 4348 but never got round to doing the hard bit. Thought clueing in 4349 was clever, including 18 down. Concept maybe a bit of a mishmash and heavily reliant on a deliberately ambiguous key word in the rubric?

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