Listener 4046: Disagreement by Stan

[turnerjmw]

Enjoyable, and far less taxing than last week. No doubt the theme will not please everybody, but it's very prettily executed, with great economy and no ambiguity.

[AHearer]

Yes, a nice one to tackle in the taxi.

[starwalker]

Nothing particularly onerous about this. I suspect that there may be one or two people with t-t-twitchy fingers and an unused highlighter.

[kayakamina]

It depends on how long the taxi ride is!

Enjoyable and much easier than last's weeks devilish one.

[robinruth]

I'm chasing you cheetahs and hares - got the quotation and understood why you were not all boasting that you did it on the train home (this time! - sometimes I feel snarly and hope it was on the train from Moscow to Vladivostock!) but still a long way to go, as this one is really testing the understanding of wordplay again.

[Speravi]

I sympathise with everyone reaching for a highlighter or a different colour pen.

Presumably, when there is no requirement to highight, but one does, for the hell of it or because it helps (as last week), it doesn't invalidate the submission. Does it?

[robinruth]

Yes, I have finally worked out most (only 'most') of my word play and completed satisfactorily - it isn't just the twitchy fingers - it's what has gone under in the clashes that niggles too! Indeed, not as taxing as usual:)

[bobbycollins]

Probably missing the blindingly obvious, but my entry of the subject seems something of a dampish squid.

How long was the taxi ride, by the way? Would have cost me a fortune. Are you on expenses, Ahearer?

Regards to all

[robinruth]

Not blingingly obvious, Bobby Collins, but perhaps you are missing something that was disagreed about by the maker of the original claim and the one who disagreed. The sort of thing we would never have seen. (Use the Internet to see how he came to his conclusion!)

[Philoctetes]

Not the most taxing (though I have answers to every clue, wordplay on tw is still eluding me). But I do feel I must stand up for the sheer elegance of the way in which the subject is introduced into the grid

[turnerjmw]

I quite agree, Philoctetes. I thought the construction was admirable

[bobbycollins]

Thanks, AHearer & robinruth.

Didn't need the internet - the whole thing is explained in my ODQ (Sixth Edition).

Yet another doh moment for yours truly. Not too expensive a cab ride after all!!

[Clamzy]

In answer to speravi (above), the setter Radix, posting in the other place, says he often highlights when not required and has yet to be marked wrong.

[robinruth]

Yes, but that got the very amusing follow up remark 'Then why not highlight the entire grid?' So I've taken to doing that!

[Clamzy]

Well that's one way of avoiding the errors which so often spoil my record:-)

[u10]

In crossword language, is there any difference between shade and highlight?

[Clamzy]

If the instruction is to highlight then either using a coloured pen for the actual letters or a highlighter for the required cells is OK. As for shading there have been some in the past where I have used pencil cross-hatching and others where a specific colour shading was required. There was one not too long ago (Mysterons?) where we had to shade in black and the underlying letters were obscured.
So I think highlighting leaves grid intact but shading may not.

[u10]

Philoctetes - if you were asking about the wordplay in two, it's a (very large) composite anagram.
Can anyone shed light on the wordplay in 33? I just can't see it. Thanks.

[perseverer]

number one in relief inside a meaning of to -then old the - all less the extra letter.

[perseverer]

Sorry that should have said a meaning of for! Ooops!

[u10]

Sorry perseverer but I'm still confused. Your answer will lead to trot - r (number 1 in relief) inside to + t (the) + o (omitted). I've got the obvious answer for a rubber cushion so where am I going wrong?