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Listener No. 4401: Literal Spling By Waterloo

AHearer | 15:55 Fri 03rd Jun 2016 | Crosswords

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That was fun -- quite a quick solve, but I liked the idea. The one slight niggle I have is that the literal spling has not been 100% carried out -- unless I've made mistakes in at least two entries. Thanks, Waterloo.

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Lovatt's Stinker

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fyellin

You're worried about regional challenges? I'm here in the US worrying about more than regional challenges!

Time to re-watch some Dr. Who and Downton Abbey.

fyellin

I have to agree with the Original Poster's contention that the rules have not been 100% carried out in at least two entries. For example, 36A is almost exactly paralleled in another entry, and yet the other entry has a different length.

satori

Fyellin, if I have rightly surmised the entry to which you are comparing 36A, I still maintain that the principle has been consistently applied. Had it's entry been two letters, like 35A, it would have been wrong. For a parallel consider part of the last syllable of 1D.

Contrarian

fyellin,

Are you comparing 36A to 17A?

If so, I don't think there is a problem.

The second syllable of 17A, properly pronounced, could not be rendered with 1 letter.

offramp_t

I agree with anyone who said that the -en- in -ment does NOT count. The en is hardly pronounced...

British_Olympics

I don't speak German and 17a doesn't appear in my Chambers, but according to the online Oxford Dictionaries it rhymes with Hun ( just as -ment rhymes with punt) and is therefore treated correctly in this puzzle.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/essen

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