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Listener Crossword 4029
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This week's offering is "Office Block" by Duck. Happy Easter to all.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Phew. Made some good early headway on Friday (thanks for the copy Ruth), but then - encouraged by early posts on here and faced with 3 days of glorious sunshine - opted to leave it for a while. Don't know if my brain got fried, but I found it a real struggle on returning and only just finished now. Very nice challenge - if I'm to be picky, I think the old company in 31ac. could just as easily have generated an 'L' as the extra letter but the ambiguity was resolved as soon as the rest of the phrase became apparent.
I thought that was the hardest of the year so far - just didn't seem to be on the same wavelength as the setter at all. Or maybe chocolate numbs the brain?! Surprised no-one thought the couple of North of England specific references (as well as the old company) were a bit odd. And, even though I can see all the ingredients in 14a, I still don't exactly see how the wordplay puts them in the right order! Maybe I was just too slow to get the theme, as it did get a bit easier after that. Phew.
Having moved home over bank holiday and with the internet down for what will seem eternity, I have caught up with this thread at work tonight.
I also found this hard going (toughest for me this year), especially without my usual web based solving aids. I have had to wait until tonight to confirm a couple of entries using wikipedia.
No ambiguities I felt this week. Nice challenge Duck
I also found this hard going (toughest for me this year), especially without my usual web based solving aids. I have had to wait until tonight to confirm a couple of entries using wikipedia.
No ambiguities I felt this week. Nice challenge Duck
Well done robinruth! Fantastic effort on your part. My earlier suggestion to spend "some time" considering the title, principally the first word, was meant as a subliminal hint, but I don't think it worked. An excellent reference to the Mud classic, too, in your penultimate post
Sarrie, I too thought 1d was slightly loose. "Study carefully" was the meaning I settled on in Chambers, but I wasn't entirely happy with it.
Sarrie, I too thought 1d was slightly loose. "Study carefully" was the meaning I settled on in Chambers, but I wasn't entirely happy with it.
Thanks turnerjmw! - You'll laugh when I say that the advice to study the title led me into suspicions that we were falling off ice and extra letters soon seemed to confirm that we were involved in a famous naval disaster - followed by a suspicion that this somhow commemorated April 1909 - Peary's reaching of the North Pole (if he did). How wrong can one be? I don't think I understand the second word of the title even now.
The other half of the team commented re 1d that modern electricity doesn't use those any more - but I liked the whimsy of the clue.
The other half of the team commented re 1d that modern electricity doesn't use those any more - but I liked the whimsy of the clue.
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