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Listener No. 4363: Demolition By Schadenfreude
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As ever with Schadenfreude, a great pleasure to solve. I had to backtrack to find a few missing missing letters, though. I wonder whether this was one that was rejected by CAM as too easy (or perhaps the CAM crosswords were rejected from the Listener as too hard).
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Little grumpy here. Submittable grid as far as I can tell but unable to justify the third missing letter, as both clues involved seem to be complete as they stand, and 27dn was only fully solvable with the information provided by the end game. Apologies. Otherwise it was satisfying to knock off a Schadenfreude in an afternoon of course.
Re Cruncher's comment on 27d, I don't know why the answer was clued in that way, 'Spanish queen' being a bit obscure to many, I imagine. The clue would work just as well without 'Spanish.' Perhaps it was just to throw in a teaser in an a generally easy puzzle, or perhaps to place the solver in the same position as ...
Straightforward but enjoyable to identify and resolve the proposition. I thought 27 was unambiguously clued but agree with Scorpius's suggested abridgement. Nobody else seems to have had the trouble I did with 15 - not in solving it, but in justifying the solution in relation to the clue: surely it only works if 'of' is changed to 'for'.
I also thought the elliptical element of the clue to 21 was out of keeping with the usual broadly Ximenean standards of The Listener.
I also thought the elliptical element of the clue to 21 was out of keeping with the usual broadly Ximenean standards of The Listener.
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