Absolutely delightful, thank you Colleague. The theme leapt out at us and we have totally enjoyed finding and matching all the removals. This theme is one I have loved for a long time.
I thought this was a reasonably straightforward offering from Poat. Fairly obvious what was going on from an early stage but none the worse for that. Just a few wordpalys to resolve and then it's back...
Are there no other EVers this week? A tough slog from Nod, which became a lot easier once I guessed the two words of the Playfair phrase that were in the grid. A good challenge, but perfectly fair...
Is there a tradition to start the year with an extra-easy puzzle? This one certainly fits the bill but nonetheless has some nice touches (and not too much gridstaring in the end) even if the clues...
Thanks for a good challenge, Kea. It was a nice challenge to determine the answers that had extra letters and not easy to get the two items from the extra letters. I am a bit concerned about what I...
Full marks, Oyler! Sheer joy to have a numerical Listener with a theme. I never thought I would open the thread for a numerical. This will make our Listener year!
Yippee - great fun!...
Enjoying this so far. I have a full grid but, as yet, don't understand the instruction. Think I'll leave it till tomorrow, as inspiration often comes after a break....
Certainly this theme was something new to me, and I am not sure that I understand all of its nuances but have managed to complete the final grid even so. Some very deft touches in both the clues and...
I can't see anyone else here yet so here goes.... This is beautifully constructed and yields up it's secrets gradually with lots of pdms along the way. Not a quotation I was familiar with but...
I rather muddled through this one often getting the answer before figuring out why. Not my favourite theme (to say the least) but thanks to Google not hard to research. Perhaps the extra hour in bed...
Again, not too tricky. I admit, though, to having got the word from the quotation rather than by more direct means, and I should go back and check where two of the letters came from. Thanks, Kruger....
What a pleasure to have a theme that yielded itself so nicely without a fearsome final grid staring process. Of course we have had to resist the urge to insert the correct letters and it has been...