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Listener 4373 Semirp By Kea

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x_word_fan | 18:12 Fri 20th Nov 2015 | Crosswords
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Apologies if there is another thread.

Nothing for the "numberphobes" to be scared of. Logical with only a bit of Excel at the start and some spadework at the end.

Enjoyable - thanks Kea.
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Yes, thanks Kea, nice elzzup, though I'm not sure how a prime number could ever end with zero ?
At first glance, this looked a little daunting, but there were surprisingly few paths to explore.

Thanks Kea.
Beautiful little puzzle, and the number of steps required just happens to be the only digit that doesn't appear in the grid - thanks Kea !
Puzzled for the first couple of hours, but a little time spent eliminating the impossible narrowed the problem down considerably. Thanks, Kea.
Managed to get to the end but a stupid misinterpretation of clue H held me up. I found it tricky to get going but it came together nicely. A very pretty miniature!
A nice cameo puzzle. Thanks Kea.
Nice puzzle, though I took far more than that number of steps! I was half expecting some message to appear by converting the perimeter into base 26 or similar -- but perhaps I just missed it.
Made rather heavy weather of that, and a slight disappointment to realise there won't be a Kea crossWORD this year! Virtually 2 years since the last solo one.
All done, once I found that I had missed one prime from my list! A good challenge.
An enjoyable workout, if not difficult. I particularly enjoyed the final clue informing me I was a klutz (and I had indeed made a silly mistake). Thanks, Kea!
Enjoyed that. Always like numericals which require more devious thinking than hard slog.
I thought this was a lovely numerical, simple in construction and design and yet needing a bit of head scratching to work through. Perfect entertainment for a chilly Saturday morning. Thanks kea
Even better the puzzle number is a prime and is two 2-digit primes one after the other. Further 373 is prime too!
A reverse prime would have been better.
How true. But we'd have to wait till puzzle number 7001 for that!!
6 spreadsheets and even more sheets of A4 later and I’m over the line. While pleased with myself for not giving up, I can’t say I found this anything other than a laborious number-crunching exercise, and how anyone other than a mathematician could crack it without Excel and / or internet access is beyond me. Where’s the fun in it? Sorry Kea, I’m sure this took a huge amount of effort to set up but the point of it is lost on me.
Sorry to hear that you found this such a labour s_pugh. I can however vouch that it is easily solvable with a single sheet of A4 and a calculator, and I'm certainly no mathematician (unless you count an 'O' Level in the mid 70s !). I certainly wouldn't know where to start with Excel ;-)
Of course a list of primes and/or a factor generator does speed the process, but then the benefits of the internet hold true for the non-numericals too.

Think we'd have to wait another 3 weeks Oyler !
Yes sorry. Brain fade caused by attempting a puzzle Zag sent me.
Puzzle 7004 (next reverse prime) is due on 24th April, 2066, if I've got that right.

Anyone think they may be around to see it?

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