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Listener No 4423: A Bit Up In The Air By Phi

A much easier ride than last week's, but with a very neat anagram to settle the final step. I had to work back from the phrase and its anagram to sort out two of the extra words. Many thanks to Phi....
17:08 Fri 04th Nov 20169 answers, last by starwalker 16:56 Sun 06th Nov 2016
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Listener No. 4421: Post-It Note By Tramp

Another entertaining puzzle, with nice treatment of the thematic elements. Nothing too challenging, but the extra words were quite smoothly integrated into the clues. I must do some checking, to see...
16:31 Fri 21st Oct 201619 answers, last by IainGrace 09:20 Sat 29th Oct 2016
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Listener No. 4420: King's Album By Stick Insect

Quite a pretty treatment of the theme, with a pleasingly accurate representation in the grid. Fairly straightforward clues meant quite a quick solve, despite the large number of grid entries. Many...
16:43 Fri 14th Oct 201620 answers, last by Hagen 10:24 Mon 17th Oct 2016
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Listener 4419 Common Acid Test By Stan

Well certainly not as hard as last week, but still was more challenging than I anticipated.
23:02 Fri 07th Oct 201610 answers, last by olichant 11:42 Mon 10th Oct 2016
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Listener 4418: Out Of Line By Sabre

After two days we have solved 10 clues and managed to enter one letter, although even that might be wrong. Is anyone else doing any better?...
12:37 Sun 02nd Oct 201623 answers, last by Postigod 22:37 Thu 13th Oct 2016
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Listener 4417: Hms Arcady By Hedge-Sparrow

A very lucky spot meant that this unravelled quite quickly for me - once I had the theme, a number of otherwise fiddly obstacles fell all at once. But what an elegant result, and so much thematic...
16:53 Fri 23rd Sep 20162 answers, last by olichant 17:00 Fri 23rd Sep 2016
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Listener No 4416: Up To 10 Items? By Wan

I don't suppose you'd believe me if I said I'd had to break off to cook the supper, so I'll confess that with most issues resolved and the highlighting done I had two irritating letters still to enter...
18:39 Fri 16th Sep 201622 answers, last by IainGrace 15:39 Sat 24th Sep 2016
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Listener No 4415: Right And Left By Ploy

I was lucky enough to start the grid fill the right way round, but in any case the correct way is clear once the fill is well under way. Even with the grid full I had to go back over my rather...
17:32 Fri 09th Sep 201618 answers, last by perseverer 16:49 Mon 12th Sep 2016
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Listener No 4414: Quads Ii By Shark

I really enjoyed this one. I was held up a bit in the north-east corner at stage one, got my coloured pens out to keep track of what had to be preserved at stage two, had a chuckle at the elegance of...
19:46 Fri 02nd Sep 201613 answers, last by borealis 12:06 Mon 05th Sep 2016
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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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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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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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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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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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