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Light At The End Of The Brexit Tunnel.....

Or just a train coming the other way? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/24/brexit-deal-free-movement-exemption-seven-years...

midazolam

Listener Crosswordno 4391: 22Ses Square By Tibea

Lovely puzzle by the Listener editors (Tiburon and Kea). Impressive to think these excerpts were published in the paper. I was thinking as I was solving it that I am still in need of a cryptic clue,...

mikey4444

Eu Referendum: Leaving Eu A 'leap In The Dark' Says Cameron

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35634239 As time goes on, I am having more and more respect for dave. In fact, I am going to capitalise him from today onward ! This will, of...

fyellin

Listener No. 4377: Russian Roulette By Rasputin

A very entertaining and well-constructed puzzle. Hard to believe how much the setter fit into such a small space. One minor quibble. The thematic subject of the puzzle, as described by its Wikipedia...

perseverer

Listener 4358 The Other Letter By Wan

Can't find an earlier post. Quite a challenge from Wan with some tricky wordplays and misprints/extra letters. Highlighting not too difficult if you have an idea where to look. Thanks to Wan...

Ripper

Inquisitor 1383

I'm getting nowhere with this one, although I love a pub crawl! Please could some kind person kick-start me with some help with1 across: Drinking very warm, foul beer? Lord, this is the end! (11, 2...

sunny-dave

Listener 4333 - Discussion And Appreciation

Listener No. 4333 - In the Event of Fire by Flying Tortoise This thread is for the traditional 'elliptical' discussion, comments and thanks to the setter. If you want to participate in a more direct...

dieseldick

Spots All Around Back Of My Scalp

just noticed a lot of spots around back of my scalp, only thing i can think of is the water i wash my hair with or if i was in bath 2 days ago and was lying in water with that area on the water line,...

tandh

Fitting A New Toilet Where A Old One Used To Be

I want to install a new toilet (with the down pipe going into the wall) where a old style toilet (with the down pipe going into the floor) was. Is there any way i can do this? And what would I need to...

Ruthrobin

Listener No 4315 Homer By Dysart

Very enjoyable, thanks, Dysart. I am just getting the scissors out to mutilate my grid (not as fiddly and worrying as I initially feared it might be!) Finding those ten letters missing from wordplay...

starwalker

Listener Crossword 4307 - Spiral Of Salami And Walnuts By Wan

What a delight, on another theme about which I was previously ignorant. Would have been much tougher without the generosity of the setter. Particularly liked 33 down. Thanks Wan....

crosswhit99

Listener 4268

23 down must be ANT as it appears in ???ant???, but why ? I can see the wordplay ANT(I) and that it's a social insect, but why only one in some Amazon societies ? The whole clue is as follows: Endless...

NickorWan

Ev 1069 Greetings...farewell By Rustic

I didn’t see this puzzle first time around so it was a pleasure to solve it now. It was very gentle without clue gimmicks and set no doubt as an introduction for solvers not used to barred puzzles....

NickorWan

Inquisitor 1279

Quite brilliant I thought and one of my favourites for some time. I had an inkling what was going on from a couple of answers but the endgame still pleased me. Thanks very much Charybdis

dr b

Ev 1067 Top And Tail By Wan

Much like last week, a perfectly fine puzzle with no end game to speak of; what to do was readily apparent so it was just a matter of identifying the nature of each clue. Still, many good clues that...

emcee

Listener 4233: Elementary By Wan

Good grief, I can't believe I'm starting this thread off! I thought this was an excellent puzzle by Wan. Very clever how the clues read on the surface and still produce real words after the...

Texasetes

Listener 4222 - 27 By Mango

A very entertaining puzzle which I couldn't put down: a nicely cryptic preamble, some tricky (but fair) clues, an excellent grid and an endgame which had me beaming. The general theme became apparent...

Twit-Who

EV1037 - Men Are Fools by Won

This puzzle is a real challenge and I think it might just defeat me despite having had a full grid for some time. I'm just not getting how to replace the 10 + 2 letters at all. Perhaps a break might...

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