Listener 4801 Homework By Nudd

[emcee]

Well, after last week's offering any puzzle will seem easy. A neat idea well implemented. Pretty much impossible to get to the 12 special entries until the quotation had been obtained.

Some of one of the types were particularly difficult to wheedle out.

Thanks, Nudd.

[upsetter]

Quite agree emcee - very much a chicken and egg situation.

We particularly like 10 and 24.

[HawkCrossword]

Agreed. Nudd's one of the tricker setters, and I had to work to unpick this. Some of the treated-entry clues were difficult to spot.

Thanks, Nudd.

[Scorpius]

The thematic clues were certainly tricky, especially one set.

I couldn't find the quote in my ODQ (but a later check revealed it is there) so I Googled one of two possibilities for the first word from just three letters.

I thought the first set rather contrived, but I suppose that is in the best traditions of the Listener. I wasted a lot of time thinking the treatment in each case was somewhat similar.

 

 

[Cruncher]

Lot of head-scratching with this one but reckon I have found my way through. Lot of retrospective parsing even once the answer was obvious.

 

[midgler]

Great puzzle.  I was held up by an equally plausible (and arguably better) answer to 33 giving a different misprint

[HawkCrossword]

32D has a couple of alternatives, too. I like setting misprint clues, and this is one of the occupational hazards. I don't know whether solvers prefer 100% unambiguous misprints, or whether the odd one is ok (especially when confirmed by a message). To make them all unambiguous does lead to the occasional compromise in clue or surface reading quality.