Listener 4776 Stand Your Ground … By Apt

[upsetter]

A pleasant crossword with some tricky clues but a slightly clumsy preamble.

Thanks, Apt.

[emcee]

I agree, the preamble could have been made clearer in one part.

A hard act to follow after last week's puzzle.

Thanks, Apt.

[HawkCrossword]

Yes, the preamble was weird, wasn't it? I was expecting something a lot more complex.

An enjoyable puzzle which leads on nicely from the entry-level one a couple of weeks ago (assuming last week's didn't put the new solvers off the series). Thanks, Apt!

It surprised me that the theme doesn't appear to have been done before, at least not in the timeframe of the xwdb site.

[Dim16]

Pleasantly diverting, until identifying the eighth item. No idea how to do this - it relies on getting my mind around a sentence in the preamble which no matter how many times I read it remains inscrutable.

That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

Thanks Apt.

[Eagledave]

Dim - probably easier to read the preamble in reverse. Some across clues have letters omitted from wordplay and these end up in the items

[Dim16]

Eagledave

Thanks, will look at it again.

[Dim16]

Oh dear, that sentence is still as clear as mud.

Weird that I could solve last week's puzzle but not this, but then again last week I understood the preamble.

[Cruncher]

Dim16 - it's poor syntax I agree. If you have located the seven items you will discover that in each of those items one or two of their letters were unclued in the across entries that generate the letters for each item - although those letters are fully clued in the down entries. Given that there are seven items, and each item has one or two unclued letters, you will finish up with between 7 and 14 letters that can be unjumbled to give a two-word eighth item.
Not sure that's any clearer!