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Listener No 4413: Edit By Jago

I thought this was a very nice idea, but I wish there had been more consistency. Perhaps it wasn't possible to find a fourth theme word that would fit -- it's not my area of expertise. Some nice...
16:09 Fri 26th Aug 201624 answers, last by crosswhit99 22:10 Wed 07th Sep 2016
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Listener No 4412: Analogy By Nod

I thought I was doing so well when I had A-Z identified using a nice logical process, and working carefully enough that I didn't have to backtrack at any point. It then took me just as long to fill in...
20:02 Fri 19th Aug 201615 answers, last by BMACMAC 14:49 Sun 28th Aug 2016
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Listener No 4411: Extra English By Raffles

That was fun. I made ridiculously heavy weather of the top right-hand quadrant and the two clued entries with clashes, and I had to check a few entries where I was pretty sure of what they had to be...
17:41 Fri 12th Aug 201613 answers, last by borealis 07:10 Wed 17th Aug 2016
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Warden

Listener 4410

I've never finished this early before - but it was my era!
16:45 Fri 05th Aug 201623 answers, last by Scree 21:27 Wed 10th Aug 2016
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Ruthrobin

Listener No 4409

We have loved every minute of this magical construction. pdm after pdm with a most satisfactory finish. Congratulations to Xanthippe for a superb compilation.
17:53 Fri 29th Jul 201617 answers, last by taittinger 12:55 Tue 02nd Aug 2016
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Chipchopper

Hose Reel Fixing

I have attached a garden hose reel to a wall, trouble is the holes drilled into the brickwork are too big and I don't think they will hold. What can I do to get a good fixing ? It has a steel bracket...
11:51 Thu 28th Jul 201610 answers, last by Chipchopper 19:32 Thu 28th Jul 2016
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LondonLady

The Generalist August

Need help with 9d, Edward Lear asked: "Who, or why or which or what is he"? 5,2, 4 A?O?D ?F ?W?T and 12a , The Romany name for Newmarket 5-6, 3 N?S?I-?E?C?O ?A?...
08:12 Thu 28th Jul 20166 answers, last by LondonLady 07:58 Sat 30th Jul 2016
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ukanonymous

Pranking Kids

Can anyone think of any fun ways to prank kids at all please? They troll me all the time and I would like to find a few ways to get them back when they come to stay with me. Obviously they have to...
10:52 Thu 28th Jul 20167 answers, last by jno 16:12 Mon 22nd Aug 2016
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Booldawg

Small Pots Of Uht Milk

Those little pots of milk you get in hotels etc - can you buy them that size at supermarkets? Going camping at end of August and they'd be ideal for making hot drinks with. I've seen them on Amazon...
07:40 Thu 28th Jul 201611 answers, last by EdmundD 12:34 Thu 28th Jul 2016
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Listener 4408 Serpent

The theme leapt out at us when we had solved just a couple of clues, but this has not rendered this any less enjoyable. With a full grid, we still have to get the pencils out to draw the thematic...
17:35 Fri 22nd Jul 201619 answers, last by borealis 09:34 Wed 27th Jul 2016
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Listener No 4407: Ad Nauseam By Chalicea

Nice straightforward clues, so a fairly quick grid fill, with totally unambiguous instructions to follow for the endgame. I had come across the theme before, and I thought this was a very neat...
16:14 Fri 15th Jul 201622 answers, last by icynorth 19:56 Tue 19th Jul 2016
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Listener No. 4406: .....

Whew!! Actually, the first Playfair was not too bad, as a code phrase that long tends to lead to a bunch of letters left over that, as long as one or two of them appear in the hints, help a lot. I...
20:48 Fri 08th Jul 201622 answers, last by borealis 16:05 Mon 18th Jul 2016
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Listener No. 4405: Revision By Tangram

Nice and straightforward. I felt we could have been left to work out for ourselves which entry was reversed, and I wasn't too keen on the cryptic clues to the second line, but it's always good to be...
16:13 Fri 01st Jul 201625 answers, last by Alekhine 22:36 Sun 03rd Jul 2016
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mikey4444

Osborne Abandons 2020 Budget Surplus Target

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36684452 Yet another of Osborne's little plans go astray...............this is getting to be a habit !...
12:04 Fri 01st Jul 201619 answers, last by bazwillrun 16:38 Fri 01st Jul 2016
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paddyk

Southgate Bookies Favourite

Gareth Southgate is the bookies favourite to replace Woy-Boy as England manager. Is this some kind of joke ?? In that case, I nominate Barry Chuckle......or maybe both Chuckle Brothers as a managerial...
08:13 Tue 28th Jun 20163 answers, last by dannyk13 12:01 Fri 01st Jul 2016
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Listener No. 4404: Earthquakes As Well By Tut

I thought things were going well until I ground to a halt in the top right corner -- even having the theme identified didn't help me much. Finally got there, though. I hadn't come across the poem...
17:35 Fri 24th Jun 201615 answers, last by icynorth 18:42 Tue 28th Jun 2016
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Listener No. 4403: No Offence By Artix

That was quite a workout! Unlike several recent Listeners where an early guess at the theme helped a lot with the gridfill, this time I could not tackle the endgame until I had worked my way through...
20:13 Fri 17th Jun 201615 answers, last by crucifer 15:49 Fri 24th Jun 2016
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Listener No. 4402: Right And Wrong By Tnap

Very satisfying. Some very good clues with some neatly hidden misprints. I'd forgotten that quotation, and was delighted to be reminded of it. Early on I thought there was going to be an ambiguity,...
17:07 Fri 10th Jun 201623 answers, last by aldanna 19:40 Sun 26th Jun 2016
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Listener No. 4401: Literal Spling By Waterloo

That was fun -- quite a quick solve, but I liked the idea. The one slight niggle I have is that the literal spling has not been 100% carried out -- unless I've made mistakes in at least two entries....
15:55 Fri 03rd Jun 201626 answers, last by British_Olympics 18:55 Wed 08th Jun 2016
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Listener 4400: Three Steps To Heaven By Dysart

I'm not really surprised that no one has posted yet, as this was something of a toughie. I think that I have it all now (at least I have a grid that fulfills the requirements). At first I thought that...
15:14 Sat 28th May 201618 answers, last by petefoxes 14:56 Fri 03rd Jun 2016

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