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This week's challenge isSongspiel by Dysart.
However, it looks like the Halloween Gremlins might have struck again, so watch this space !
However, it looks like the Halloween Gremlins might have struck again, so watch this space !
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thanks C ... and thanks for the warning - or I'd have assumed the fault was down to my having to use a tediously slow dialup line (3 weeks now without broadband, cheers BT) . Got here early yesterday evening, so had to draw half the grid freehand and just hope it was symmetrical - confirmed on picking up the paper this morning.
Agreed, cluelessJoe
The subject is one of my passions, and I would have been miffed not to finish. Astonishingly, I guessed at the piece after getting the first four letters. It took me a full 24 hours after completing the rest to finally work out 39d.
Thoroughly enjoyed another puzzle of middling difficulty. Thanks, Dysart.
The subject is one of my passions, and I would have been miffed not to finish. Astonishingly, I guessed at the piece after getting the first four letters. It took me a full 24 hours after completing the rest to finally work out 39d.
Thoroughly enjoyed another puzzle of middling difficulty. Thanks, Dysart.
Your post, word for word, could have been penned by me bobbycollins. Early spot of the theme concerning a massive favourite and much of a day thrashing around 39d.
Strangely, I'm most of the way through compiling a crossword on a (different) song by the same person ... maybe I should shelve it for a while!
Strangely, I'm most of the way through compiling a crossword on a (different) song by the same person ... maybe I should shelve it for a while!
You mustn't do that, cluelessJoe. Can't get too much of a good thing.
The Crossword Centre post mortem should be fun - opinions are very much divided on the worth of the subject. The negatives are ignorant of the true value of the wider opus....but I would say that wouldn't I?
I could shove in a relevant quote from the piece, but I don't want to give the game away.
The Crossword Centre post mortem should be fun - opinions are very much divided on the worth of the subject. The negatives are ignorant of the true value of the wider opus....but I would say that wouldn't I?
I could shove in a relevant quote from the piece, but I don't want to give the game away.
Good evening all. After a few weeks of absence, I see that I have been mentioned in despatches, although one particular interferer decided to be derisive without provocation.
I have enjoyed the recent listener instalments, 4005 (took some time to get the symmetrical movement of thematic answers still making real words, but a relief when the penny dropped), 4006 (the Halloween special that seemed to be straight forward enough), which leads me on to this weeks challenge....
....i recall Dysart's earlier offering this year. somehow he/she produces some dastardly cluing. Managed to complete the grid, work out the meaning of the 13/4 alterations and the 5 (+1 extra) groups with their grid representations.
However can someone settle my mind, 10 of the 13 are straightforward. The remaining 3 (around the top left part of the grid) can be altered using more than one substitution and as these are non-clashing I cant see the reasoning.
well done Dysart
p.s. 32 down was the last entry that I got.
I have enjoyed the recent listener instalments, 4005 (took some time to get the symmetrical movement of thematic answers still making real words, but a relief when the penny dropped), 4006 (the Halloween special that seemed to be straight forward enough), which leads me on to this weeks challenge....
....i recall Dysart's earlier offering this year. somehow he/she produces some dastardly cluing. Managed to complete the grid, work out the meaning of the 13/4 alterations and the 5 (+1 extra) groups with their grid representations.
However can someone settle my mind, 10 of the 13 are straightforward. The remaining 3 (around the top left part of the grid) can be altered using more than one substitution and as these are non-clashing I cant see the reasoning.
well done Dysart
p.s. 32 down was the last entry that I got.
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