Listener 4066

[Ruthrobin]

A very happy Christmas - where are you all? This was an exciting grid fill with lots of alcohol and Christmas goodies and I am delighted, though reeling and rather bemused, about what we are required to do now!

[emcee]

Happy Christmas everyone. I think the puzzle part was quite straightforward; never had a grid filled so quickly.

The rest, for this solver anyway, is extremely fiddly. I'm about half way through the task and am looking for ways of obtaining the required shading without having to suffer the remainder. Alcohol, I'm afraid to say, will not help much with this final stage!

[Ruthrobin]

Emcee, I totally agree with all you say but fear that if you read the preamble carefully, I quote '... the grid's final construction, which must form the entry submission ...' we have to fiddle our way to a conclusion. I've completed that task with a lot of grumbling but not found the 'highlighting'.

[AHearer]

Yes, it did seem to be a very easy grid fill: perhaps all that DLM practice in last week's Azed helped.

[AHearer]

..and that present-wrapping helped too. A pleasant, if not unexpected, finish, with a hint of another recent puzzle.

[Mysterons]

Happy Boxing Day everyone - hope you're all having a great Christmas and enjoying this hunt. Certainly not a task to undertake when you're 5 across emcee !

[bobbycollins]

Season's greetings to all.

Only just printed this off and am being dragged out on a family walk shortly - wellies order of the day, so shan't get to grips properly until this evening, when I will certainly combine a few snifters with my early progress.

Best wishes again

[Philoctetes]

Completed this on the sofa watching Dr Who yesterday evening. Ideal for postprandial snoozing. And a delightful finale. A slight coincidence after last week!
On to teh New Year

[starwalker]

Possibly the fastest ever grid fill, with a pleasant if largely predictable outcome. An excellent end to the Listener year.

[Speravi]

If there's a difficult way to do something, my intuition unerringly takes me down that route: are we really meant to implement http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/wren.pdf ? (There are other approaches, apparently.)

I don't believe that the above will give anything away to anyone who has not already filled the grid and identified the instructions.

[Mysterons]

No, I think this is probably the one to follow:

http://origami.org.uk/bos

[Clamzy]

Just like you Speravi I have found the complicated route, even when Googling using terms such as Simple and Very Easy.
I do hope Mysterons is joking.

[starwalker]

Speravi, I also looked at that and although ideal in one aspect, I think it is far too difficult and chose an easier option.

[Mysterons]

FNIFGMFNIWBYEVIYBC

[Speravi]

Thanks to all for the clarification. I don't envy JEG his task at all.

[emcee]

It's not clear how we're supposed to submit this. The problem is the name/ address panel -- I guess it's going to be floating around separately in the envelope.

[midazolam]

Started and finished tonight as the clues were so obvious they would jump out irrespective of the amount of alcohol consumed. however, i liked the way it all fitted together and a nice denouement (Speravi - not sure how you can say that you haven't given anything away - but it was obvious from the clues).

The highlighted cells are also obvious but I have tried three different constructions (including mysterons, the common method) and it does not appear where it should do. Will keep trying, although I might have to try yours speravi

[7lattens]

Easiest grid fill in yonks - even located the initial instructions - however fail to "SEE" the relevance of the penultimate word !!!

[daagg]

Amazingly easy clues, but the final stage made up for it. RobinRuth, If you're still struggling, then I would recommend reading a poem about yourself, and see where you find your head, poor thing.

[Mysterons]

(Playfair code Word: BOXING DAY)

[Ruthrobin]

Daagg, that was gentle of you, thanks - but I did get there the morning after my post, when I stopped attempting to follow the more precise method available on Google and went for the simple version. Midazolam, I am sure you will produce if you go for the step by step sort of 'painting by numbers' version.