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Listener 4580 - A Game Of 11

Good fun but it became obvious a bit too early what it was all about.

Now that was great - a splendid challenge which yielded its secrets in tantalisingly small packets as it was prised open. Even after spotting and completing the quotation, it was far from a doddle to...

IainGrace

Listener 4578 - Trick Or Treat

A gentle ride. The theme emerged very quickly in this household.

sunny-dave

Listener 4577 - The Gaudy

A brisk romp through some neat (but not too taxing) clues and then a mercifully brief grid stare - another entry-level Listener, but a very pleasant one. Thanks Paddock - plenty of time now for the...

perseverer

Listener Crossword No 4573 Jean's Stuff By Schadenfreude

A fine final Listener from one of the master setters. He will be missed. Perhaps not his most difficult, but I should have realised the theme more quickly. Some well concealed misprints meant I did...

emcee

Listener Crossword No. 4568 Howsat! By Skylark

Not a bad puzzle although some of the 3 letter entries made it difficult to ascertain the extra letter. Initially I had a perfectly acceptable alternative answer for 29ac. Not my kind of theme at all....

emcee

Listener Crossword No. 4563 Odd One Out By Sabre

I'm surprised there isn't a thread ... perhaps there is, and the Search facility is failing again. I finished this puzzle last night which must be a first with Sabre and tells me it wasn't as...

Hagen

Listener 4561 One Or The Other By Hurón

This should satisfy those who found last week's clues too easy (I wasn't one of them). A clever construction and satisfying endgame with no ambiguity, though those who submit may find it difficult to...

perseverer

Listener Crossword No 4561 One Or The Other

Well, it took a long time for the penny to drop, not helped by a wrong entry. A neat treatment of the theme, with some tricky wordplay, including the one I got wrong and still haven't figured out...

emcee

Listener No.4559 G By Xanthippe

A fantastic puzzle celebrating a memorable moment. I solved the clues quite quickly but found the long endgame quite fiddly. My only snag is that I have an "I" left over to fit in the bottom row and...

Philoctetes

Listener 4533 - Telling Lies

I stared at this for a while until my brain clicked into the style of cluing - and then it poured out in a rush. Some neat cluing, some simple. And the end game was amusing. Less of a chore than the...

Hagen

Listener 4531 Superpower By Shenanigans

I hope nobody minds me starting the ball rolling again. Nice unambiguous ending this week, but rather too much cold solving needed before any sort of grid fill could be attempted. I'll be interested...

Hagen

Listener 4530 Gallery By Phi

A novel way to make use of a circular grid, which all fell neatly into place. I made rather heavy weather of the ring clues, often losing my place when trying to follow the entries round the grid....

captaincoma

Listener 4529

I just started this and soon reached a dead end. I assume the current year is not 2018?

midgler

Listener 4516 - A Defter Premier By Arden

Not like me to be done on Friday, still less posting first (if indeed I have). I found this very straightforward, but rather tedious, with lots of the same operation, occasionally speeded up with a...

Hagen

Listener 4514 Cordon By Colleague

Nice theme and some excellent clues but the jumbled entries, combined with a serious amount of guess-and-search for the outer ring, made for far too much cold solving for my liking. If it had been...

starwalker

Listener 4504: Milky By Malva

After last week's rather harsh welcome home from holiday (perhaps I should have taken two weeks), this was much smoother and more welcome. An interesting mixture of clues, some less obvious to me than...

emcee

Listener Crossword 4503 Property Management

I've only just started to look at this. It immediately occurs to me that those fourth powers are also square numbers so surely they will satisfy both properties. But this isn't allowed according to...

Encota

Listener 4497: 'catechism' By Tnap

The clue-solving was tough work in places and I spent an age somewhat baffled ... but a nice couple of PDMs brought it all to an enjoyable conclusion. Thanks tnap :-)

kdgs2

Listener 4495: An Exchange Of Letters By Harribobs

A clever treatment of, for me, an unfamiliar theme. It's scarcely possible to believe that the letter changes in the grid can exist and give the required text. I really liked several of the across...

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Listener 4580 - A Game Of 11

Listener 4579 - Skywriting

Listener 4578 - Trick Or Treat

Listener 4577 - The Gaudy

Listener Crossword No 4573 Jean's Stuff By Schadenfreude

Listener Crossword No. 4568 Howsat! By Skylark

Listener Crossword No. 4563 Odd One Out By Sabre

Listener 4561 One Or The Other By Hurón

Listener Crossword No 4561 One Or The Other

Listener No.4559 G By Xanthippe

Listener 4533 - Telling Lies

Listener 4531 Superpower By Shenanigans

Listener 4530 Gallery By Phi

Listener 4529

Listener 4516 - A Defter Premier By Arden

Listener 4514 Cordon By Colleague

Listener 4504: Milky By Malva

Listener Crossword 4503 Property Management

Listener 4497: 'catechism' By Tnap

Listener 4495: An Exchange Of Letters By Harribobs

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