Listener 4658 Marxist Doctrines By Charybdis

[NickorWan]

A corker, thanks very much Charybdis. I always enjoy this setter’s work.

‘I do appreciate seeing changes leaving real words in the grid, and we were treated to a lot of them in this grid.’ I said that last week and can only repeat it this week. Wonderful.

[HawkCrossword]

I can only agree. This was very clever indeed - thanks Charybdis!

The clues weren't the hardest, but the surface readings were excellent considering the restrictions of those extra words. Oddly, this was very similar to the mechanism I first considered when writing Listener 4646 (but subsequently had to discard).

[Hagen]

Agreed, this was brilliant. It looked like a lot of research and specialist knowledge would be needed for the endgame, and of course it was all there in plain sight and quite straightforward. Nice one, Charybdis.

[upsetter]

A very pleasing puzzle although one of the substitutions was a bit obscure.

Thanks Charybdis.

[sunny-dave]

An excellent puzzle, but significantly marred for me by the (deliberately?) opaque preamble. It is possible to see what is required - but the phrase “to eliminate any of the other in their minds” is just wrong.

Thanks to Charybdis for the well implemented theme, but the checkers should have fixed the rubric.

[midgler]

Wonderful puzzle. I can't say I share Sunny-Dave's concerns, I found the rubric perfectly clear. And I have only just realised - although I expect everyone else has already done so - that the contents of the across set each have a third, thematic, constraint in addition to the two obvious ones. Very cleverly done.