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Listener 4185 : Ballad by Elgin
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(sorry started on wrong site, apparently) - so repeat here :
Well, we had all been moaning that the Big L was getting to be the Big EZ ... not this week, mefears but after a mammoth struggle, have now finished gridfill. OMG. Wow ! Thanks (methinks) to Elgin.... (see previous msg for longer version, too tired to type more....)
Well, we had all been moaning that the Big L was getting to be the Big EZ ... not this week, mefears but after a mammoth struggle, have now finished gridfill. OMG. Wow ! Thanks (methinks) to Elgin.... (see previous msg for longer version, too tired to type more....)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Dear Bear - it looks as though you stayed up all night solving it! I am one who fusses about comments giving too much away but think I can safely say that this was perhaps an ideal Listener, as it required no silly jumping through hoops at the end but that you would be unlikely to complete it correctly had you not 'understood what it was all about'.
I felt that this would be tough as soon as I saw the setter's name, and so it has proved. Lots of smiles as the clues have slowly been unravelled, and I'm sure that there are more to come before I finish.
RR - I think that you may be referring to 3758 Asylag by Elgin, where there were only 32 correct entries, where, like many others, I fell at the last fence.
RR - I think that you may be referring to 3758 Asylag by Elgin, where there were only 32 correct entries, where, like many others, I fell at the last fence.
TheBear69 - I think you are correct. I finished the grid, working out the extra column and the entries to the unclued row but didnt have a clue what it was all about. I searched google for a bit and then gave up as it is not necessary. Now someone has told me the connection, I am amazed that we didnt have to find this out.
aldanna - I have!
Yep, normal life intervenes. Can't pick this up again until Monday pm. Good thing really as brain has turned to a weird combo of mashed potato and liquified chicken jalfrezi. Managed to enter two more acrosses though! Woohoo! Slow and steady for sure. The clues are hard but some of the best I've come across (and down). Have fun all.
Yep, normal life intervenes. Can't pick this up again until Monday pm. Good thing really as brain has turned to a weird combo of mashed potato and liquified chicken jalfrezi. Managed to enter two more acrosses though! Woohoo! Slow and steady for sure. The clues are hard but some of the best I've come across (and down). Have fun all.
Excellent crossword with wonderful PDMs at the end.....worth pursuing for those contemplating the "Life's too Short" option. Still 4 clues I don't fully understand. My reference - not up to date - seems to indicate that Elgin has taken a slight liberty in the spelling of a (non-)entry, but, even if so, I'll more than forgive him that.