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Listener 4131 - Carte Blanche en Tore by Ten-Four
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Easiest one of the year for me by a long chalk. Am I getting smarter, or are these Listeners getting simpler?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.After a few days I'm at the 'solved 32 clues and wondering what to do next' stage. Is it correct that entering all the answers correctly(but without doing anything related to a torus which is likely to be quite beyond me) a symmetrical grid will appear? If so, one down clue should end in the last letter of 52ac. Any advice would be most welcome!
Late to the party as usual .. a bit harder than last weeks methinks.
Only 22 solved so far and trying to get to hopefully a tipping point. Jackdecrows words are however encouraging ... trouble is i'm at the wadding through treacle stage - very very slow progress now. I've posted simply to have a distraction and to say arrrrrrggggghhhhh (A bit like that cartoon character years ago that runs off to the top of the hill to scream and then comes back) - that's a bit better.
Only 22 solved so far and trying to get to hopefully a tipping point. Jackdecrows words are however encouraging ... trouble is i'm at the wadding through treacle stage - very very slow progress now. I've posted simply to have a distraction and to say arrrrrrggggghhhhh (A bit like that cartoon character years ago that runs off to the top of the hill to scream and then comes back) - that's a bit better.
I have read through the threads but I can't say that they tell me where to start! If the grid is 180deg symmetrical then 1ac and 1dn should be symmetrically placed relative to 52ac and one of the down clues. That down clue should end in the last letter of 52ac(which is an interesting letter and should help). I remain baffled!
First words of 47ac and 4ac. I had cold solved more than 40 clues which as mentioned above, were all the more difficult for wordplay pointing to something other than the answer. At that point I still couldn't fit them into the grid until a kind friend reminded me that I had Will's unusual word in the wrong place. After that the grid fill helped me with the unsolved ones and a finish. I agree with the sentiments expressed above by AndrweGS - great fun once past the cold solving stage. Thanks Ten-Four.
jamesah, yes the point at which 1 across starts would normally be the point at which the last clue ends in a "normal" crossword, but in this case the entries wrap around. You are right in the sense that because of symmetry an across entry must end at that point. However, as there can only be a maximum of two per row, it implies that it can be either the last or the penultimate entry that fulfills this criteria.
Rereading my post, I realise I am talking a load of rubbish. Of course it doesnt have to be the last down clue that finishes at the end of the last across clue.
If there is 1 across and 1 down then the last across clue must also intersect with the last letter of a down clue of the same length as 1 down. In this case it doesnt have to be the last across clue it could be the penultimate across clue instead, because they wrap around.
I think that reads better
If there is 1 across and 1 down then the last across clue must also intersect with the last letter of a down clue of the same length as 1 down. In this case it doesnt have to be the last across clue it could be the penultimate across clue instead, because they wrap around.
I think that reads better
Listener 4126 by Corvettes was the last to break the 100 mark with 112
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