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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

Remember: You do not have to use the title builder - simply enter the title and question as you normally would and click submit!

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Listener 4474 Rock Group By Llig

Ruthrobin | 17:34 Fri 27th Oct 2017 | Crosswords

13 Answers

What an enjoyable workout. Many thanks to Llig.

Lovatts Stinker

Help Plz. Thank You

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Alekhine

Pleasant enough .. but that's about it.

Not overly impressed with the way in which one of the down entries was affected, but ... hey ho.

starwalker

Fun in parts, but I have one or two queries at the moment, which are distracting. Hopefully they will soon be resolved.

Encota

Gentle - thanks Llig!

12barblues

Pleasant stroll after last week! Comes together quite nicely.

Scorpius

I thought this was a lovely puzzle. It just shows that a good Listener does not need a complex theme or an elaborate endgame. And despite some lukewarm comments this was a good Listener from an established setter whose puzzles I've always enjoyed.

These are some of the qualities for which it deserves credit: the grid is perfectly Ximenean - no giveaways in entries with no unchecked letters; some of the clues are delightful, and quite deceptive in places; then there were several thematic PDM's en route.

Thanks, Llig.

olichant

At the risk of simply agreeing with everything Scorpius has said, I agree with everything Scorpius had said.

Ruthrobin

Question Author

Yes, indeed, Scorpius and Olichant. It was an elegant compilation with thematic unity and a series of PDMs. I've said before how I firmly believe that there is room for a wide range of difficulty levels in the Listener and for a solver who is disgruntled because she finishes too quickly, there is, for example, the Magpie, the EV or the IQ (take a look at that in the I today!)

BobMinor

I thought this was a very enjoyable puzzle. Even when I had discovered the theme, I still found myself wondering how to complete several of the down entries, until eventually - much later than it should have done - the penny really did drop at last. I still find myself musing over what the exact form of one down entry should be (and not because of the effect of thematic modification): to me, the wordplay in this case seems slightly ambiguous, but as no-one else seems to have had any problem, it's probably just me! Good fun, though - thanks, Llig.

Hagen

Indeed very elegant and enjoyable. Rather less of a grind than last week but still no pushover. Thanks Llig.

icynorth

Due to an alternative misprint, It took me a lot longer than I’d hoped nailing the theme. I think I’d have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t made that error, but it’s well crafted, thanks Llig.

Oh, is the definition of 11 quite correct?

icynorth

Don’t answer that! It dawned on me shortly after posting

Scorpius

Icynorth, re 11, I think the penultimate word should not be capitalised. It would then have a meaning that accurately characterises the answer.