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Listener 4389: Teeing Off By Nutmeg
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A very satisfying puzzle this one, and thankfully easier to make inroads into than last week's. Everything fell into place quite quickly once I had enough answers to have a go at grid entry. I like the method of entry for the 12 answers. Thank you Nutmeg.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Surely the difficulty (or otherwise) of a puzzle arises from the nature of the things one has to do - in this case finding out how to enter the 12 thematic answers. To put the clues in random order would be adding difficulty for difficulty's sake, a procedure which to my mind has no merit. I thought the presentation of this puzzle and the way the clues were shown were a model of their kind.
Re the Listener nobody solved, as Jim points out it was a spoof puzzle. The list of Listener puzzles in 1980 does not include one by Atahualpa. According to the Listener website there were two winners - Mr and Mrs Atahualpa. Since JH's note after this week's IQ expresses confidence that solvers could meet them at the annual Listener dinner I wonder if Mr and Mrs Atahualpa are in fact Mr and Mrs Henderson.
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