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Listener 4698 - Late Arrival By Aragon

What a cracking puzzle - a very fair carte blanche with some decent entry points. Excellently hidden wrong letters in some quite elegant clues and then just enough of a hint in the message to make the...

upsetter

Listener 4697 White Rose By Filbert

The non-words were a price worth paying for this formidable composition. Thanks, Filbert....

upsetter

Listener 4696 Mint Sauce By Stick Insect

Very clever but there was insufficient connection between the thematic clues and their entries. All the same were introduced to a few interesting words. Thanks, Stick Insect....

upsetter

Listener 4695 Betrayal By Nudd

An exquisite composition. Thanks, Nudd....

HawkCrossword

Listener 4693 Location Location Location By Agricola

That was a strange journey - Thanks Agricola! I'd be frankly amazed if anyone finds the first two locations before the third, but let's see. I found them in order 3, 2, 1, connection. Some devious...

Hagen

Listener 4691 Something In Common By Lionheart

Many thanks to the Times for providing a Christmas Listener, which I particularly appreciate as the current situation meant I couldn't get over to the UK to see my family. A nice festive Listener,...

Hagen

Listener 4680 Manhunt By Shark

Utterly brilliant! Tough clues and uncertainties in the placing of entries made for a slow, but steady grid fill, and this was rewarded many times over by a stunning endgame. Usually I quail when I...

upsetter

Listener 4678 Bleak Expectations By Mira

Great fun - bags of thematic material and an amusing endgame. Thanks, Mira....

Hagen

Listener 4677 Variety Show By Enigmatist

I can't find another thread even though this puzzle has taken me 15 hours over two days. So here goes. I have never spent this long on any crossword - not even when I started with the Listener 25...

HawkCrossword

Listener 4675 Called To Order By Vismut

A much friendlier puzzle this week, very cleverly arranged and clued, and with a surprise ending (I was worried I was going to have to stray into an area well beyond my comfort zone). Thanks Vismut -...

HawkCrossword

Listener 4674 - Elusive Figures By Poat

The joy I had in finally completing this one was immense - thanks Poat, that was a real treat! The only really picky thing was that some of the removal instructions were less than obvious, but my...

Hagen

Listener 4671 Ours By Xanthippe

A terrifying preamble. Ugh. Jumbles. Double ugh. Definition/letter mix clues. Ugh to the nth power. Yet this was brilliant! Once the method of entry of the across revealed itself, a smile was...

emcee

Listener 4670 Consequence By Ferret

A straightforward gridfill with some attitude added in the endgame. I thought the final part was clever; one of those "you know when it's right" moments hits you. Thanks, Ferret....

IainGrace

Listener 4669

My better half cracked what was going on at an early stage. Good fun.

HawkCrossword

Listener 4668 Impossible Construction By Serpent

A very clever construction - thanks Serpent! It required a fair amount of cold-solving to get started, but thankfully the clues were all fair and accessible, so identifying the feature wasn't too much...

Hagen

Listener 4667 Classicist By Gorrag

Extremely difficult, and unless I've missed something after hours of searching, a certain amount of insider knowledge is necessary to understand some of the thematic connections. I don't possess that...

HawkCrossword

Listener 4665 Nostimous By Sabre

A most impressive puzzle, thanks Sabre! Spotting the theme was enjoyable, but then the proper challenge began! It's not my specialist subject, but after a little research they fell one by one, leaving...

Hagen

Listener 4663 Blurred Lines By Skylark

Can’t find a thread so here goes… After last week’s masterpiece from Android, I didn’t envy the setter whose puzzle would follow. So much to live up to, so perhaps the editors wouldn’t bother and...

perseverer

Listener Crossword 4662 Hungry By Android

A stunning piece of setting, especially if Android is indeed a new setter. Perhaps not especially difficult to get the initial grid fill, but a great achievement to then enable it to produce all real...

HawkCrossword

Listener 4660 Prime Cuts By Zag

Probably the toughest numeric we've had for a while, so thanks for the challenge, Zag! Very difficult to get a foothold, but I liked the use of symmetry across the clues. I have three clues yielding...

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Listener 4698 - Late Arrival By Aragon

Listener 4697 White Rose By Filbert

Listener 4696 Mint Sauce By Stick Insect

Listener 4695 Betrayal By Nudd

Listener 4693 Location Location Location By Agricola

Listener 4691 Something In Common By Lionheart

Listener 4680 Manhunt By Shark

Listener 4678 Bleak Expectations By Mira

Listener 4677 Variety Show By Enigmatist

Listener 4675 Called To Order By Vismut

Listener 4674 - Elusive Figures By Poat

Listener 4671 Ours By Xanthippe

Listener 4670 Consequence By Ferret

Listener 4669

Listener 4668 Impossible Construction By Serpent

Listener 4667 Classicist By Gorrag

Listener 4665 Nostimous By Sabre

Listener 4663 Blurred Lines By Skylark

Listener Crossword 4662 Hungry By Android

Listener 4660 Prime Cuts By Zag

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