Listener No 4626 : Pot Plant By Karla

[upsetter]

The clues were a little too simple but the end game added a bit of a challenge.

Thanks, Karla.

[AndrewG-S]

Long time since I finished on a Friday! Fun solve

[Philoctetes]

A very tiny bit of a challenge! Thanks, but a little more next time, please

[Hagen]

On the easy side, yes, but as always that's fine by me as long as the puzzle is fun and the theme is elegantly implemented. Both were the case here, and I congratulate Karla on a promising Listener debut.

[Graejen]

Agreed. We don't start till the paper comes on Saturday and finished over breakfast. A pleasant change for us! Thanks for a relatively easy start to the day but unfortunately that means more odd jobs to be tackled.

[NickorWan]

I agree with Hagen.

Thanks, Karla.

[sunny-dave]

Hmmm - much too easy.

I agree that there need to be a few 'entry-level' puzzles to encourage new solvers - otherwise The Listener will become ever more elitist and old-farty - but this took me less than 45 minutes including a break for a sip of Guinness and some cheese and crackers.

I'd also argue that the rubric was not quite right - fortunately the desired result was fairly obvious.

None of this is a criticism of the (new) setter - it's fundamentally a nice puzzle - the checkers and testers could easily have requested a bit of toughening in the clues and should have re-worded part of the rubric.

Thanks, Karla - hope to see you again soon

[PhilipW]

I enjoyed the puzzle - thanks Karla - agreed it wasn't the hardest puzzle of the year but variety is good.
I enjoyed the Nina in the clues (trying to avoid giving away a spoiler for anyone who hasn't done the puzzle yet)