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trux

Listener 4356 Mashonaland By Raffles

Some excellent clueing, especially where extra letters were unambiguously indicated. The end result may never win a prize for elegance, even with the speakers revealed, but the gridfill speeds up very...
18:09 Fri 24th Jul 201540 answers, last by IainGrace 16:01 Tue 04th Aug 2015
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AHearer

Listener No 4355: Shorthand Crosses By Aragon

A lovely construction, with fairly straightforward clues. I hadn't come across the verse, and have only been able to locate the vital couplet -- if the rest of it is available I hope somebody will...
17:10 Fri 17th Jul 201543 answers, last by Whenland 17:53 Thu 23rd Jul 2015
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fyellin

Listener 4354 Taxi! By Ilver

No one has solved this yet?? It's Friday afternoon in California, so after midnight in the UK. I'm in a strange position. Solved grid. I know the quotation, its source and the corresponding key. No...
23:57 Fri 10th Jul 201540 answers, last by IainGrace 20:15 Wed 15th Jul 2015
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trux

Listener 4353 A Ghost Story By Kevgar

All over rather too quickly for my liking, but I enjoyed the join-up-the-dots picture-forming. Clues perhaps a bit easy for this outlet. Anyhow, now plenty of time for tennis and/or sweltering in the...
16:13 Fri 03rd Jul 201540 answers, last by upsetter 23:33 Wed 08th Jul 2015
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Pasquin

Listener 4352 What’S Missing? By Artix

Excellent puzzle. Totally misinterpreted the first missing item I found, then spent about three hours looking for eight more similar items, before realising I had led myself well up the garden path....
23:58 Fri 26th Jun 201543 answers, last by trux 16:54 Fri 03rd Jul 2015
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TheBear69

Listener 4348 - Quads By Shark

A magnificent follow-up to Shark's Ascot Gold Cup...Thanks for a superb Listener, Shark!
04:50 Sat 30th May 201528 answers, last by crosswhit99 07:28 Wed 10th Jun 2015
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Monkmonk

Listener 4342 Triskaidekaphilia By Bero

What a brilliant swansong. Interesting and fun.
19:58 Fri 17th Apr 201541 answers, last by Scorpius 10:30 Tue 28th Apr 2015
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Ruthrobin

Listener No4341 What's On By Nod

This has produced a giggle but it was a tough solve until the message appeared and we are going to have to be very careful with our checking of our final grid. What an amusing and original idea. Many...
16:57 Fri 10th Apr 201548 answers, last by IainGrace 19:23 Fri 17th Apr 2015
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sandyRoe

Enoch Powell...

I'd long ago heard a rumour that he was gay. If true, he was clearly not cut from the same flamboyant cloth as someone like Larry Greyson. He seems to have been more in the mould of people like Leon...
07:36 Mon 30th Mar 20157 answers, last by Philoctetes 09:01 Mon 30th Mar 2015
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jim360

Listener 4336: Company Liquidation By Kruger

Short preamble but a lot going on. Nice to have an unambiguous finish too! Thanks Kruger....
18:23 Fri 06th Mar 201541 answers, last by the_heisman 13:04 Fri 13th Mar 2015
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Ruthrobin

Listener No 4335 The Old Swan By Jago

Thank you Jago for a gentle romp. A fine curtain raiser for the Listener setters' dinner.
16:49 Fri 27th Feb 201532 answers, last by tristram37 09:57 Thu 05th Mar 2015
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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...
16:01 Fri 13th Feb 201572 answers, last by Scorpius 11:18 Fri 20th Feb 2015
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sunny-dave

Listener 4333 - Hints And Help

Listener No. 4333 - In the Event of Fire by Flying Tortoise This thread answers requests that there should be a more directly helpful forum for Listener Crossword solvers on AB. If you want to...
16:01 Fri 13th Feb 201513 answers, last by perseverer 12:33 Tue 17th Feb 2015
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jim360

Listener Threads

Look, I've seen some of the arguments, rudeness and the like emerging in the last two or three weeks. But two threads deleted entirely?! That's just not right. Not least because that basically seems...
08:36 Mon 09th Feb 201518 answers, last by jim360 23:09 Tue 10th Feb 2015
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Ruthrobin

Listener 4332 Augeas

I love the way this is thematic. The quotation has raised a smile though I am still wondering how to make sure that letters are entered in the correct order in 'all entries'. Many thanks Augeas for a...
17:56 Fri 06th Feb 201538 answers, last by upsetter 10:16 Sun 08th Feb 2015
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Ruthrobin

Listener 4331 By Loda

Well, those who have been moaning that the early ones were too easy have what they wanted here. This has been a real challenge, growing easier as it progressed, of course. We still have some ends to...
21:49 Fri 30th Jan 201561 answers, last by twoshortplan 09:14 Sat 07th Feb 2015
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anotheoldgit

On Holocaust Memorial Day, Why Aren't The German People As A Whole Left With The Same Stigma That British And American People Are Over Slavery?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11370854/Holocaust-Memorial-Day-survivors-return-to-Auschwitz.html...
08:48 Tue 27th Jan 201580 answers, last by sevenOP 16:54 Wed 28th Jan 2015
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AHearer

Listener 4330: Following The Brief By External

A pleasing puzzle with a neatly worded preamble. It's always pleasing to learn something along the way, so many thanks to eXternal. But we're still waiting for the first tough challenge of the year....
17:59 Fri 23rd Jan 201553 answers, last by EdgeofDarkness 10:42 Sun 01st Feb 2015
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trux

Listener No 4327 The Alcoholic Baseball Player By Waterloo

Hoho!! Cracker-style literary jokes from Mr Waterloo ... some suitably making one groan, others raising a broad smile: I particularly liked 40ac. Gentle romp. Happy New Year to all ABers and many...
17:33 Fri 02nd Jan 201538 answers, last by Scorpius 16:45 Wed 07th Jan 2015
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Ruthrobin

Listener No 4323 Artix Onepo

Oh but this was tough. Has Artix managed to silence the Friday Club? Indeed we struggled but what a cunningly constructed grid and convincing finale. Many thanks, Artix for yet another masterpiece of...
09:14 Sat 06th Dec 201432 answers, last by UglyUncle 10:31 Sun 14th Dec 2014

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