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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...
18:22 Fri 13th Jan 201720 answers, last by sunny-dave 14:09 Tue 17th Jan 2017
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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...
19:22 Fri 28th Oct 201653 answers, last by Ruthrobin 06:07 Sat 26th Nov 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 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 4398: Boxing Characters By Mountain Ledges

This was real fun. I'd have struggled with the objects without Google (I understand that other search engines are available). The clues were generally fairly straightforward, though I was held up for...
17:30 Fri 13th May 201616 answers, last by Postigod 22:31 Tue 17th May 2016
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Listener No. 4393: Vingt-Et-Un By Little Hare

Another pleasant puzzle, with unambiguous clues and a pretty, if straightforward, end-game. Thanks to Little Hare, both for the puzzle and for sending me back to the source of the message....
16:31 Fri 08th Apr 201627 answers, last by tbayliss 12:42 Tue 12th Apr 2016
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Listener No 4392: A Conversation By Kevgar

Nice straightforward clues, and a theme that never fails to raise a smile. Familiarity with the theme, guessed early, made is possible to see where some clashes were going to be before both...
16:19 Fri 01st Apr 201628 answers, last by Scree 06:55 Sun 10th Apr 2016
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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,...
18:46 Fri 25th Mar 201636 answers, last by tbayliss 00:50 Sun 03rd Apr 2016
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Listener 4389: Teeing Off By Nutmeg

A very satisfying puzzle this one, and thankfully easier to make inroads into than last week's. Everything fell into place quite quickly once I had enough answers to have a go at grid entry. I like...
23:42 Fri 11th Mar 201626 answers, last by Whenland 19:05 Sun 20th Mar 2016
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Listener No. 4388: Cycle 20% More By Smudge

Six answers entered after six hours of solving - anyone else doing better?
12:26 Sat 05th Mar 201645 answers, last by Cruncher 12:38 Wed 09th Mar 2016
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Listener No. 4380: Stomach My Mynot

I didn't even think of trying to fit the entries into the grid until I had cold-solved all but six. A couple of false starts, but as usual with this sort of puzzle once a few had slotted together the...
20:46 Fri 08th Jan 201642 answers, last by towsertaylor 17:29 Thu 14th Jan 2016
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Listener No 4364: Plants By Ottorino

That was fun and, for me, educational. I was stuck for a while on both 30 across and down, but it all finally came together. Some nicely convoluted clues, but all very fair, and no ambiguity in the...
17:37 Fri 18th Sep 201518 answers, last by jim360 09:46 Sat 26th Sep 2015
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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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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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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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Listener No 4339 Mixed Doubles By Shackleton

At last an absolute cowson. This is what we have been waiting for all year. 5 half-clues solved and already fighting the urge to give up....
10:14 Sat 28th Mar 201548 answers, last by sunny-dave 07:32 Thu 09th Apr 2015
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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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Listener 4328: Reductio Ad Absurdum By Stick Insect

The title just about sums up my feelings about this one: sorry, Stick Insect, but I was hardly into gear before I finished. Perhaps we'll see a few newcomers to the Listener fold encouraged by an...
17:04 Fri 09th Jan 201528 answers, last by AndrewG-S 14:16 Thu 15th Jan 2015

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