Listener No 4366: Ego-Trips By Llig

[Contrarian]

Sorry to be a bit repetitive, but this is just not a stiff enough challenge.

Lots of very easy clues, and no real endgame to speak of.

[AHearer]

Agreed: definitely one for the rabbits. Perhaps a puzzle without the source and with correspondingly more modified normal entries would have been a better challenge, but what really made it easy was the combination of straighforward clues and generally common words.

[starwalker]

I rather suspected that other would be here before me. Certainly one to encourage beginners and novices. Is the Radix jug getting a little too much attention ?

[Ruthrobin]

Yes, nice and easy but it does give us a chance to enjoy a beautiful autumn evening and be careful what you wish for. There must be another Klein bottle or something like that in the works.

[starwalker]

RR - or a KOLb ?

[kayakamina]

If I am one of the rabbits AHearer refers to I was grateful as I have
been spending far too long thinking about tomorrow's rugby and
an easy solve was very welcome.

[AHearer]

Kayakamina, you're no rabbit. But wouldn't you rather have had something to stop you from worrying about the rugby? Perhaps other solvers should put this puzzle to one side so that they have something quick and easy to cheer them up if the worst happens.

[kayakamina]

Just joking AHearer.

Let's hope the worst doesn't happen tomorrow.

Cheers K

[Ruthrobin]

Oh dear,yes, Starwalker, or a tapu: never going to live those bungles down!

[jim360]

I'd finished the endgame before most of the grid-fill, so I'll agree that it wasn't particularly a challenge. Sometimes those can be nice, and perhaps I'll appreciate the gentleness of this one a little more when next week's brute from, say, Kea, throws itself at us. Sorry, Llig, but there's not all that much to this one.

KOHb, and people should get over that one already.

[upsetter]

We seem to have filled the grid without the need to get all the extra letters and as there is no end game it was less tedious than last week but not more enjoyable.

[Philoctetes]

If even I can join the Friday Club, this does not really meet the standard expected.

[easylistener]

Another happy bunny rabbit here!

[Cloverjo]

I haven't quite finished yet, but it's good to have a Listener that I can possibly complete. I'm not sure that I like the term "rabbit", though.

[EAChaplin]

Jim360 Getting over KHOb is the easy bit. It's getting over being one short of an all correct year (more than once) that's the difficult part.

[icynorth]

Maybe this was one for the ferrets. (In cricketing jargon, the ferrets are the last of the tail enders, as they 'go in after the rabbits'.)

The only inconsistency I found was that one of the four normal clues could have been given a different treatment, considering the ending.

[perseverer]

My daughter's primary school teacher grouped the class informally. The rabbits were the children who pricked up their ears and listened!

[towsertaylor]

Agree with previous comments, I fear. A few really good clues (thanks Llig) but not the challenge I was hoping for...

[AHearer]

No offence intended, Cloverjo. My old maths master (a retired Rear Admiral!) used to introduce any problem that was marginally less fiendish than the ones he normally set as 'one for the rabbits' and I'm afraid the phrase has stuck.

[Ruthrobin]

I've been told it's a question of where the buck stops.

[olichant]

Maybe a few too many anagrams given the device in the clues? Still, it kept me happily out of trouble on a sunny afternoon without recourse to the Internet. Thanks, Llig.