Listener 4320: Shrive By Llig

[AHearer]

What my old maths master would have described as "one for the rabbits", but enjoyable nevertheless. Thanks, Llig.

[starwalker]

Elegantly simple and straightforward. Thanks Llig for giving me the time to watch the rugby.

[Contrarian]

Probably not a POTY contender.

[jim360]

A fairly standard idea, perhaps, but still a nice implementation and we could all use something fairly simple after last week's! Thanks Llig.

[Ruthrobin]

Yes, a real pleasure to have a straightforward solve that we could steadily work through. I particularly appreciated the 'alphabetical significance' of the pairs of letters. Be careful what you wish for those who moan when we have a more gentle solve. We are in for a numerical next week aren't we?

[Pasquin]

I get the significance of the title, unless there's something more subtle to it. Thanks, Llig.

[sunny-dave]

Nicely done - can't have been easy to work all the necessary material into the grid.

A very pleasant way to spend an hour or two - thanks Llig.

[borealis]

Not often I get time to complete on Friday - didn't need a lot of time but enjoyed the letter pairs.

[aldanna]

Glad this appears to be easy as I scraped into the Friday-after club for Ferret's wonderful offering of last week, so haven't even looked at this week's yet.

[contendo]

This is the first Listener I've completed for a while. I must say I've got a bit disenchanted with the increasingly labyrinthine contortions required by setters after completion of the grid and I begin to yearn for a simpler Ximinean style of crossword which relies primarily on subtlety of clue-setting. Maybe I'm just getting old.

[tristram37]

I'm with you 100% there, Contendo. Bur I suppose that as solvers have become increasingly good at solving, with all the aids we now have, setters have had to resort to more complicated "endgames" to provide sufficient challenges.

[roslyn251254]

Nice to finish this one. Not as quickly as some of you, but I am one of the "rabbits" though!

[s_pugh]

Almost as easy as the TDF one - was that called Velo? I don't recall. Neat and unambiguous. Thanks Llig.

[upsetter]

After (well ok, during) last weeks tour de force this is a genuine entry-level Listener that was well worth solving.

[Cruncher]

Must have been as satisfying to compose as to solve. A gentle romp

[IainGrace]

An easy one, although we haven't quite parsed 28dn nor decoded the title. No excuse now not to go back to 4319, having solved about two thirds of the clues but teetering on the brink of abandoning it.

[IainGrace]

Now understand 28 dn - definition as we thought, but in paper version of the BRB only, it seems.

[Philoctetes]

It's in the CD version.

[UglyUncle]

It's been said but it's worth repeating: just because a puzzle takes a relatively short time to complete doesn't mean it's somehow not worth while.

This one had a satisfying PDM (including the title), but what no-one has pointed out is that if the definitions had been withheld it would have been a touch harder, requiring the solver to demonstrate understanding of the theme, without which certain ambiguities could not have been resolved.

I only finished Ferret's formidable Feature Film on Friday. (OK, I promise not to do that again.)

[olichant]

I feel a bit of a fraud checking in here, as there is one non-thematic unch that I simply can' t pin down - feel like a bear of very little brain. But aside from that, an enjoyable solve and a nice idea. Hoping that the numbers will be gentle.

[tramart]

olichant - If there seems to be a choice of two letters it may be the one I stared at, off and on, for a day, only to realise that the word-play was patently obvious.