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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Listener 4753 19 Down By Hedge-Sparrow

upsetter | 19:24 Fri 03rd Mar 2023 | Crosswords

10 Answers

What an enchanting and rewarding puzzle.

Thanks, Hedge-sparrow.

Tls 1466

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emcee

A good beginner's puzzle.

Thanks, Hedge-sparrow.

upsetter

Question Author

@emcee - you are rather damning with faint praise.

The only thing missing from a classic listener was that there was no 32 down moment this week.
We suspect that most beginners would find double clues rather daunting.

HawkCrossword

Enchanting, I agree.

I used double clues in my first Listener (and it also, oddly, had 29 highlighted cells in a loop), but I made that one over-complicated, and as a result people found it quite difficult. This one shows how it can be possible to make that clue gimmick accessible. The endgame was also a pleasant surprise. I'm a big fan of Hedge-sparrow's puzzles.

Thank you!

logophile

Very nice puzzle, just wonder if the second clue at 23,32 should be labelled as two words ?

emcee

upsetter, I didn't think it was THAT good -- it was "OK" for me, but nothing more.

If I thought every puzzle was superb there wouldn't be much point in posting.

Dim16

Three years ago when I started I would have found this daunting. Today I found completing the grid quite tough but my main worry (as always) was the endgame, so pleasantly surprised that it fell into place fairly easily.

Thanks Hedge-sparrow

Philoctetes

Probably made more straightforward by my recognising the theme after about three clues. But none the worse for that

Cruncher

Can commend the thematic work if anyone is unfamiliar with it. Haunting

sunny-dave

Well that was fun - a favourite setter of mine and a typically elegant and satisfying puzzle.

Lovely thematic work too.

Many thanks, Hedge-sparrow

Scorpius

A delightful puzzle with very good paired clues, with smooth surfaces that disguised the seams well. At the same time they were not hard to prise apart, so I agree that it's a good puzzle to introduce newcomers to the gimmick.
Re comment by logophile, the answer to the second clue of 23,32 is one word in Chambers.

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