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Listener 4487 By Elgin
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After several days in bed with very nasty flu I wasn't on best form to tackle one of the most challenging setters in the business, but lucky guesses and a series of PDMs made this an enjoyable journey of discovery rather than a slog. Very impressive that there is such a tidy resolution to what initially appeared to be ambiguities in some of the down entries.
A brilliant puzzle which has persuaded me to get hold of the source material forthwith.
A brilliant puzzle which has persuaded me to get hold of the source material forthwith.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.After a day or so of protracted agony and hair-tearing, the pennies started to drop one by one, and I would agree that it is not ridiculous to mention this puzzle in the same breath as the sainted name of Shackleton. Really really brilliant and if you happen to know me personally you will understand why I got an extra kick out of the final denouement!
Blimey - that took a while - and boy was it worth it - even the serious blind alley into some abstruse bits of physics that I managed to convince myself were relevant (don't ask).
Lovely how it didn't all quite come together until the very end - when, of course, it all looked blindingly obvious.
Thanks Elgin - a cracker.
Lovely how it didn't all quite come together until the very end - when, of course, it all looked blindingly obvious.
Thanks Elgin - a cracker.
Also struggling with nasty flu, but that's no excuse - this was a bit beyond me. Have to say I hate crosswords where anagramming all down answers means you end up with (inevitably!) more down than across clues solved and strings of possible letters making your search for across answers no easier!
In the end I've done pretty much all of it and checked another place to see if a nudge would help. It reassured me that I'd got all the starred letters right, but that doesn't help. Worked out the message from the crossed letters and eventually got a 2 word phrase but that's it.
Having given up, I read further on that site and found an explanation of 46a. Having stared at this for ages and settled on the only possible answer, I don't see a proper definition - however clever the wordplay.
Many other clues turned out to be a lot easier than they appeared, so my memory of this puzzle is mainly annoyance. It doesn't help to see comments about how brilliant it was! I'll wait for the solution and probably concur...
In the end I've done pretty much all of it and checked another place to see if a nudge would help. It reassured me that I'd got all the starred letters right, but that doesn't help. Worked out the message from the crossed letters and eventually got a 2 word phrase but that's it.
Having given up, I read further on that site and found an explanation of 46a. Having stared at this for ages and settled on the only possible answer, I don't see a proper definition - however clever the wordplay.
Many other clues turned out to be a lot easier than they appeared, so my memory of this puzzle is mainly annoyance. It doesn't help to see comments about how brilliant it was! I'll wait for the solution and probably concur...
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