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Hagen

Listener 4509 Disappearances By 'eck

I can't find another thread so here goes. What an absolutely brilliant endgame! How setters can achieve such complex constructions so elegantly, I will never know. The denouement went a long way...
11:54 Sat 30th Jun 201817 answers, last by emcee 16:14 Sun 08th Jul 2018
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IainGrace

Listener 4508 Moon By Encota

A pleasing, if gentle, challenge after previous frustrating weeks. A week’s holiday in early June (much enjoyed) led to us abandoning 4505 with 98% done and little time to tackle 4506. Well done to...
18:51 Fri 22nd Jun 201811 answers, last by Hagen 11:54 Sun 24th Jun 2018
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Liathach

Listener 4507 Agreement By Samuel

On the easy side, perhaps
17:27 Fri 15th Jun 201822 answers, last by crosswhit99 16:47 Wed 27th Jun 2018
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kdgs2

Listener 4505: Wiggles By Sabre

This had all the elements to make it extremely daunting: Sabre - check; unconventional grid - check; long, complicated preamble - check! And it lived up to its billing. How does Sabre manage to make...
16:41 Sat 02nd Jun 201810 answers, last by tnap 15:33 Tue 05th Jun 2018
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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...
17:15 Fri 25th May 201813 answers, last by olichant 10:58 Wed 30th May 2018
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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...
22:07 Fri 18th May 201818 answers, last by icynorth 21:12 Thu 24th May 2018
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Alekhine

Listener 4502: Never-Ending?

This is curious. All done, all seems OK ... and yet I am a letter out in the endgame. I'll assume that I have made a small error. Perversely, I hope that I have and that there isn't a problem here....
22:02 Fri 11th May 201828 answers, last by Liathach 05:05 Wed 16th May 2018
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kdgs2

Listener 4501 - Two Solutions By Quinapalus

After being too tired to make much progress on this last night, I made the most of a delayed flight this morning and got there in the end (in both senses!). This was a clever construction, with mostly...
09:52 Sat 05th May 201817 answers, last by olichant 13:13 Thu 10th May 2018
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emcee

Listener Crossword 4499 Silent Movie By Elfman

I haven't been able to find another thread so here goes ... I thought this was quite a straightforward offering this week; the clues didn't take too long to solve. There will be some argument about...
18:31 Fri 20th Apr 201818 answers, last by sunny-dave 10:33 Fri 04th May 2018
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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 :-)
13:47 Sat 07th Apr 201815 answers, last by icynorth 19:42 Wed 11th Apr 2018
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kdgs2

Listener 4496: Ilam By Mynot

This was quite tricky to make progress with lots of cold-solving required, but the penny dropped in about three stages with a final satisfying clang. Another puzzle contributing to the high quality of...
23:24 Fri 30th Mar 201818 answers, last by vetuste_ennemi 03:35 Wed 04th Apr 2018
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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...
21:45 Fri 23rd Mar 201817 answers, last by Hagen 12:43 Wed 28th Mar 2018
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IainGrace

Listener 4494

A very enjoyable one session/several glasses of wine challenge with a theme that slowly becomes apparent.
20:01 Fri 16th Mar 201818 answers, last by Ruthrobin 13:49 Mon 09th Apr 2018
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olichant

Listener 4493 - Devilry By Nutmeg

All done (bar, if I'm honest, resolving one PD clue, albeit I am certain of the entry). I found the gridfill pretty tough going and, to my surprise, the PD clues seemed to fall more easily than the...
19:56 Fri 09th Mar 201820 answers, last by 12barblues 15:50 Sun 18th Mar 2018
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lyrabelacqua

Listener 4492 Mad Tom's Traps

Took a while to pursue this, and I wasn't sure of it until the end, but I have now caught all the elusive quarries.
19:30 Fri 02nd Mar 201819 answers, last by olichant 05:20 Mon 05th Mar 2018
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lyrabelacqua

Listener 4489 Ocean-Going Vessel

Am I truly first? Loved this one, and have just finally nailed my last replacement. Quick, but very clever.
18:41 Fri 09th Feb 201826 answers, last by Cruncher 19:33 Tue 13th Feb 2018
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Flocker14

Listener 4488

A fairly gentle workout after the rigours of the last weeks but highly enjoyable nonetheless. Steady progress by trial and error after the first grid entry leads to a neat endgame. Many thanks to...
20:44 Fri 02nd Feb 201812 answers, last by icynorth 21:40 Sun 04th Feb 2018
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Hagen

Listener 4487 By Elgin

After several days in bed with very nasty flu I wasn't on best form to tackle one of the most challenging setters in the business, but lucky guesses and a series of PDMs made this an enjoyable journey...
12:26 Sat 27th Jan 201816 answers, last by Scree 18:47 Sat 03rd Feb 2018
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IainGrace

Listener 4486: In Self-Defence

An entertaining puzzle, using a mix of familiar cryptic techniques. We were perhaps fortunate in identifying the run of correct letters after solving about a dozen or so clues.
20:38 Fri 19th Jan 201823 answers, last by Hagen 13:02 Tue 23rd Jan 2018
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Alekhine

Listener 4485: Mixed Emotions

Hmm. Mixed emotions for me. An intriguing effort that revealed itself fairly quickly. Not enamoured with 22A, 28D or 31D....
20:32 Fri 12th Jan 201828 answers, last by olichant 12:09 Wed 17th Jan 2018

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