Listener Crossword 4132 Ups and Downs by Llig

[starwalker]

Well, I seem to be almost at the end of this and have yet to decipher the precise quotation although I think I have the gist. Fastest grid fill for some time, so all the more reason to be careful.

[Clamzy]

Just checking in - cJ summed it up nicely, and I've nothing to add.

Help! Are there any Techies amongst us? Fed up with messages saying Shockwave has crashed in Chrome, I've switched to Firefox. The AB postings don't display correctly,see my plea for help at :-http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Q
uestion1006751.html

Anyone here any ideas please?

[IainGrace]

Agree with general comments but have to say that some of the clues, e.g. 28 across and a number of the anagrams were a bit primary school.

[bobbycollins]

Sorry to say that I didn't like this. It came across as rather sloppy.

Managed to fill last week's grid after a shove from a mate, so thanks for the encouragement here. Didn't do the doughnut bit though.

[Clamzy]

No response so let's put the url on one line.

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1006751.html

[tristram37]

I had exactly the same problem with Chrome as Clamzy - continual messages that Shockwave had crashed with no indication of how to rectify the situation, and certain websites, notably AB, Wikipedia and my bank, not displaying properly. After reinstalling it several times with no luck, like Clamzy I reverted to Firefox which at present has no obvious flaws. Even my Techie son had no answer - he just recommended me to use another browser, saying Chrome was c***.

[tilbee]

Reading again your comment, I realise that my solution does not align with what you suggest. I have a delta of one. Am I mising something ?

[tilbee]

That was meant to be addressed to RR.

[tilbee]

Wish there was a recall and replace post function on this site - equal numbers it is.

[Clamzy]

Thanks tristram37. It's because of the faults you mention that I switched to Firefox. I now have the display problem mentioned above only in Firefox and only on the Answerbank site.

[Ruthrobin]

Pleased about that Tilbee.

[trux]

Up in the snowless mountains all weekend, so tackled this whilst watching Rory implode at the Masters ... (actually I think I might have finished this before he got to Amen Corner - certainly the golf's denouement was more gripping). Too much effort made to "musicalise" the clues which made too many of them overly straightforward IMHO.

[Zabadak]

Clamzy- had the same problem with Chrome after upgrade to version 10, which was a shame because I really like Chrome. I'm one of those experimenting with Chrome 11 beta, available here: http://www.google.com...landing/chrome/beta/, which seems to have knocked the bug out. Apparently fixing 10 was just not possible.

[Clamzy]

Thanks very much Zab - I'll give it a go.
I have now solved the problem in Firefox. I knew CTRL + and CTRL - would zoom in and out but didn't know how to do it for text only.
I do now.

[aldanna]

A busy weekend designing Kate Middleton's wedding dress (with nine-year-old granddaughter) so only started this late. However, for the first time ever I completed a Listener and didn't have to copy it out to send it in. Nice puzzle, not hard even for the likes of me, only slight quibble is that one can finish it (I think) without getting every detail worked out.

[BlackHugh]

I thought it a good one to go after last weeks stinker. l I almost always have one or two entries where I have not worked out all the details of the wordplay. It doesn't prevent me from happily sending it in - any other views on this?

[Clamzy]

Yes BlackHugh I must confess to the same failing, which is why I am not one of the all corrects. There have been previous discussions here along the lines of "if you are not absolutely sure of the answer, it's probably wrong."

[bellabee]

no, but it's famous.

[contendo]

S-matrix - If you type the last 4 letters of the entered answer into Google you'll find it as the 4th entry.

[BlackHugh]

Clamzy - sadly my main reason for incorrect entries was transcribing incorrectly (3 out of 4 for 2010)