Listener No 4450: Bank Transfer By Calmac

[Contrarian]

Now that really was too easy.

[AHearer]

Oops, sorry Contrarian!

[Contrarian]

No problem. My quickest solve by far too.

You're right that the feat of concocting a grid with so few obscure words is quite impressive.

[Philoctetes]

So many threads - search was obviously confused. Much, much too easy. The most impressive aspect is that AHearer can find something positive to say.

[sunny-dave]

Hmmm - under 25 minutes - and not even trying that hard

Nice theme, nice grid, but ... probably not quite what is required for a Listener.

Thanks though Calmac - I have had a good read about the theme and learnt some new stuff.

[pushmi-pullyu]

Didn't even need to get out the BRB. I'm afraid I found it too unchallenging to be any fun.

[s_pugh]

Ferry simple.

[Hagen]

Is this the "official" thread? A Listener is very easy if a duffer like me has finished this halfway through a Mozart piano concerto - but I'll echo A Hearer's positive comments: I've learned something new, and I've a lot to do this weekend so I was glad of a quick solve. Thanks Calmac.

[icynorth]

Probably my record, too, but despite the lack of challenge, this was an elegant puzzle, with some fine surface reading in the clues. Thanks Calmac!

[HappyUncle]

Hard to know quite what to say. I'm not going to complain at all, as Calmac is a true gentleman of impeccable courtesy whose puzzles are always scrupulously fair, gently educational and carefully thought out (the surface simplicity of a clue like 25, for example, is both elegant and neat). Fair enough, it took me only 25 minutes too, but we can't have - and shouldn't wish for - a golden hare or a brick wall every week.

[IainGrace]

Sorry, not by any stretch Listener standard.

[olichant]

My experience seems to have been a little different to everyone else's - not a PB for me, though obviously very much at the easier end of the scale. The theme was new, and I enjoyed some neat if not too tricky clues.

For anyone wanting a further challenge, this month's Magpie has some crackers - particularly (imho) the Artix puzzle.

[Hagen]

What's a PB, please?

[Philoctetes]

Personal Best time for solving. It is not competitive, but this was easily my fastest Listener solve ever, and I feel vaguely deprived of my weekend brain stimulus.

[Hagen]

Thanks, should have worked that out for myself. Duh.

I don't time myself either but I think this is the quickest I've ever solved a Listener, the only other that comes close being the Tour de France puzzle. Not that I'm complaining, mind.