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Ruthrobin

Listener No 4440

Most enjoyable, thank you, Mr E. A favourite theme of mine!

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Listener No. 4438 Can't You Do Division? By Oyler

Thanks Oyler for another brilliant puzzle. Is there any way we can access the original puzzle from 50 years ago?...

AHearer

Listener No. 4433: Yes You Can By Atlas

The year is still young, and already we have a new setter: welcome, Atlas. I found this trickier than I expected, with some of the incorrect letters hard to spot even when I had the entry, and...

Ruthrobin

Listener 4431

A lovely bit of fun for the last of the year. Thanks to Lavatch

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Listener No 4427: Shut That Door! By Bandmaster

I've enjoyed this all the way through. I was lucky in getting the first across and the first down quite quickly, so I could start filling the grid fairly soon. Once the theme became clear it helped to...

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Listener No 4422: Buried Treasure By Poat

Sod's law dictated that the last couple of clues that resisted my attack included clashes, so I had to resort to reverse logic from a guess at the instruction to nail those. It took me a while to get...

upsetter

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?...

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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...

AHearer

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...

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.

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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...

-Talbot-

Is The Labour Party Finished?

David Blunkett isn't too confident about the future...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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....

starwalker

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...

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Listener 4396: The Listener Audience By Pointer

Had a lucky start because a few of my early solves contained relatively uncommon letters, so the grid-fill could start quickly. Nice clues, with a nice balance of easy and tricky. Once I had the full...

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Listener No 4394: Against Expectatios By Duck

I had to do a lot of cold solving before I could be sure which were the rogues, but once they were identified it all fell into place quite neatly. A few words to add to the vocabulary, too. Many...

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Listener No 4440

Listener No. 4438 Can't You Do Division? By Oyler

Listener No. 4433: Yes You Can By Atlas

Listener 4431

Listener No 4427: Shut That Door! By Bandmaster

Listener No 4422: Buried Treasure By Poat

Listener 4418: Out Of Line By Sabre

Listener No 4416: Up To 10 Items? By Wan

Listener No 4413: Edit By Jago

Listener No 4409

Listener No 4407: Ad Nauseam By Chalicea

Is The Labour Party Finished?

Listener No. 4405: Revision By Tangram

Listener No. 4404: Earthquakes As Well By Tut

Listener No. 4403: No Offence By Artix

Listener No. 4402: Right And Wrong By Tnap

Listener No. 4401: Literal Spling By Waterloo

Listener 4400: Three Steps To Heaven By Dysart

Listener 4396: The Listener Audience By Pointer

Listener No 4394: Against Expectatios By Duck

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