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Listener No 4382 Migration By Malva
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How good to see what I believe is a new name and a relatively rare device (those migrating letters). We have enjoyed this. Many thanks to Malva.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Cruncher -- yes I too got hung up on how far letters could move. Since the preamble didn't say, I assumed they could go anywhere in the clue. But then almost all actually just moved within the same word. By my count there were two that did not, unless I misunderstood the wordplay in those. To me this is a shortcoming in the puzzle since it highlights an inconsistency in how the trick was applied. Did Malva initially mean for all to be within the same word but wasn't able to do so consistently? The puzzle would have been easier if we could have relied on the former treatment.
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