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Listener Crossword 4240: Forlor By Nutmeg
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Sheer joy! And wholly agree with her sentiments....skilfully put together, and with many a clever clue amongst them (particularly liked 32a and 17d). As ever, gridfill speeds up after PDM and with crossing letters. Many thanks, Nutmeg,...now for the snooker!
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I thought this was a brilliant piece of work and I heartily concur with Nutmeg's sentiments. A great fan of the extra letters bod too.
As with others here, it was a very slow start due to there being so many tough clues. As soon as the penny dropped regarding the 10 special clues it was all made much easier.
Thanks, Nutmeg, for one of the best puzzles of the year to date.
I thought this was a brilliant piece of work and I heartily concur with Nutmeg's sentiments. A great fan of the extra letters bod too.
As with others here, it was a very slow start due to there being so many tough clues. As soon as the penny dropped regarding the 10 special clues it was all made much easier.
Thanks, Nutmeg, for one of the best puzzles of the year to date.
Since you can complete the puzzle without the extra letter phrase, perhaps the editors felt that the fact that you would probably need the internet to fully understand its significance was excusable on this occasion - though it's obviously more satisfying (and educational) for the solver to get all the nuances of the construction.
We are once more in "Maxwell" territory here. If, like me, you knew of the connection it was clear; if not, there is no real way of finding it without a search engine. Perhaps this is simply a reflection of modern information storage - have we lost the ability to think our way into the necessary research without Google? But once again I stress that this theme is no less fair than the numerous ones from other specialist areas.
I found the cluing tricky but am nearly there now with one to go and the message still to find. With the sunny weather it is tough to find the time to finish it off. As I posted last week I was lucky enough to win the prize for the crossword. Some of you may find it slightly amusing that rather than a comforting thud announcing the arrival of Brewers on the doorstep, a small van pulled up. There was a typo on my delivery form and 31 copies of Brewers arrived in six boxes. I am rather hoping they come soon to relieve me of the surplus. Careful what you wish for!
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