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Listener 4085: If I've Told You Once... by Ploy
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Ploy gave us a relatively straightforward but interesting grid with "Signal Boxes" and it is the same this week. In fact there is more in the grid than needs to be highlighted. A very impressive grid construction once again, but the cluing is rather easy for listener standards. For those struggling with the extra letters (as I did) they are not actually necessary (although act as confirmation) as all the clashes can be resolved unambiguously.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I didn't quite get this one. It works ok but I felt the two-word phrase was a slightly cumbersome means to obtain the final grid. I'm looking to see if there is a connection between this phrase and the quotation that's alluded to. There's one literary article that talks about word shifts and I guess there is the Shakespearian quote that the author is making reference to - am I going too deep?
I think you are probably right, shades of 'What's in a name?' here. Regarding the words containing hidden letter pairs, I'm not sure it's correct to say that two of them work as anagrinds before as well as after the letter-pairs are removed - they certainly wouldn't pass muster in an Azed competition clue.
I must agree with qwerty99 on the continuing usefulness of Latin some 33 years since I took the O-Level. It certainly is still studied in state schools, in fact I was delighted to learn from my son that Caecilius, Quintus, Grumio and Cerberus are all still going strong !
I must agree with qwerty99 on the continuing usefulness of Latin some 33 years since I took the O-Level. It certainly is still studied in state schools, in fact I was delighted to learn from my son that Caecilius, Quintus, Grumio and Cerberus are all still going strong !
Ah, Mysterons, another veteran of the Cambridge Course! It brings back fond memories. Are you aware of the CUP course for younger children - Minimus? If you are not, have a look at the website. It is quite briliant. And the beauty of it is that any good teacher with little a Latin, or almost none, would be able to teach it. It should be part of the National Curriculum!
I must defend my comment on the anagram indicators still working as such after the removal of the letter pairs I still think they do work, albeit a little loosely. But I think I have come across looser ones, even in Azed!
I must defend my comment on the anagram indicators still working as such after the removal of the letter pairs I still think they do work, albeit a little loosely. But I think I have come across looser ones, even in Azed!
I hadn't heard of Minimus, and shall certainly take a look - it might be something my youngest would be interested in, as they don't seem to teach it at the secondary school she is hoping to go to. Thanks for the info !
I agree that some of Azed's own clues can be quite loose, but he does tend to be a lot stricter with anagrinds and the like when judging competition clues. I think 'no---ic" would be OK as an anagrind, but certainly not "no---". Similarly, "in a mi---" doesn't give the right sense for an anagrind.
I agree that some of Azed's own clues can be quite loose, but he does tend to be a lot stricter with anagrinds and the like when judging competition clues. I think 'no---ic" would be OK as an anagrind, but certainly not "no---". Similarly, "in a mi---" doesn't give the right sense for an anagrind.