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Ruthrobin

Listener No 4315 Homer By Dysart

Very enjoyable, thanks, Dysart. I am just getting the scissors out to mutilate my grid (not as fiddly and worrying as I initially feared it might be!) Finding those ten letters missing from wordplay...
18:06 Fri 10th Oct 201431 answers, last by easterfool 00:35 Tue 21st Oct 2014
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emcee

Listener 4286 No Robbery! By Radix

Searching this site hasn't found any other threads for this puzzle, so here goes! I thought this was the toughest puzzle for some time. It took me several hours last night before the penny finally...
11:14 Sat 22nd Mar 201471 answers, last by IainGrace 12:51 Sat 29th Mar 2014
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Warden

Listener 4268 Check This Out By Charybdis

Enjoying this so far. I have a full grid but, as yet, don't understand the instruction. Think I'll leave it till tomorrow, as inspiration often comes after a break....
19:21 Fri 15th Nov 201333 answers, last by IainGrace 18:30 Sat 23rd Nov 2013
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trux

Listener Crossword No 4246 Construction By Shackleton

As one would expect, this turned out to be a real star turn. Amazing grid construction which all works out oh so beautifully. Not as fearsome as one might think at the outset, but still most...
20:00 Fri 14th Jun 201341 answers, last by Postigod 09:51 Mon 01st Jul 2013
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dr b

Listener 4243 Pipes By Samuel

Quite a doozy this week but very enjoyable. Not necessary, of course, but I made copious use of the LEN, MID and VLOOKUP functions in Excel to count string lengths, pick out the Nth letter of the...
22:29 Fri 24th May 201354 answers, last by Cruciverbalist 21:26 Thu 06th Jun 2013
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AndrewG-S

Listener 4241 Skippers By Ifor

I cannot find a thread for the puzzle so expect I will be redirected. I think I have this all completed although not 100% on the final step, so this needs a bit more thought. Spent ages on a huge...
22:59 Fri 10th May 201369 answers, last by Scree 22:30 Mon 20th May 2013
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dr b

Listener 4232 A Murder Mystery By Hedge-Sparrow

What a long preamble, but what a fun puzzle. It took me a few minutes to get what the down message was telling me, but the P D'd, all was clear. Thanks hedge-sparrow.
19:17 Fri 08th Mar 201366 answers, last by SwissWavey 17:30 Thu 14th Mar 2013
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Ruthrobin

Listener 4217 Absolutely Pointless by Waterloo

A highly entertaining gridfill this week (I am struggling over the last two squares - cells, whatever) and wondering whether there is a further pdm to come - though it is difficult to see how anything...
22:18 Fri 23rd Nov 201240 answers, last by Alekhine 23:03 Sat 01st Dec 2012
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Zabadak

Listener 4194, Two Little Ducks by Ben Trovato

Now that really WAS easy, though I had to work fast as I'm off out to watch England/Sweden in the company of some Spurs. Once the first of the unclued answers drops, the rest follow without too much...
17:25 Fri 15th Jun 201276 answers, last by Alekhine 10:52 Thu 28th Jun 2012
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bobbycollins

listener 4145

I posted a perfectly polite notice on the Times website creating a discussion about this week's puzzle - along the lines of: "I am getting a bit fed up with the preponderance of cartes blanches,...
18:31 Fri 08th Jul 2011100 answers, last by Walterloo 06:05 Thu 28th Jul 2011
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starwalker

Listener 4141 : Trailblazers by Dysart

Grid fill is proceding quite quickly and smoothly, especially when compared to last week. However, I know that this will rapidly slow down as I know nothing about either the two adversaries or the...
18:02 Fri 10th Jun 201184 answers, last by ichkeria 15:09 Tue 21st Jun 2011
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midazolam

Listener 4138: The X-factor by IOA

I looked down the list of letters thinking: no clue lengths, no clue numbers, no idea which is across or even, 26 numbers to choose from. Aargh! Luckily, once it gets going, things speed up and to a...
20:12 Fri 20th May 201187 answers, last by Eril 20:45 Mon 13th Jun 2011
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midazolam

Listener 4137: Frightened Catherine by Ifor

An enjoyable Listener début from Ifor (although a setter that I have solved in the Magpie, EV and IQ). I was wondering why this needed to be a carte blanche as I was solving it, but the little...
20:41 Fri 13th May 201190 answers, last by ichkeria 14:25 Mon 23rd May 2011
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cluelessJoe

Listener 4131 - Carte Blanche en Tore by Ten-Four

Easiest one of the year for me by a long chalk. Am I getting smarter, or are these Listeners getting simpler?
19:46 Fri 01st Apr 2011147 answers, last by bellabee 22:14 Wed 13th Apr 2011
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Ruthrobin

Listener 4106 A Change of Clothing by Elgin

A step up in difficulty here. We've floundered our way to a complete grid with crime fighters, an item of clothing and a set of villains, though I am not sure which one is the appropriate one to...
20:47 Fri 01st Oct 201092 answers, last by trux 06:42 Tue 12th Oct 2010
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midazolam

Listener 4103: Annual Turnover by Ragtag

Fairly straightforward debut by Ragtag this week. The basics of the theme we have seen in a listener a couple of years back as well as in the EV. I was wondering what the clashes had to do with it,...
20:20 Fri 10th Sep 201087 answers, last by Mysterons 14:03 Fri 24th Sep 2010
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dr b

Listener 4102 Something's Brewing by Poat

Do I get to call firsties this week? I thought this was a nice puzzle. It was a lot easier to get the keyword than I thought it might be, and once you have that everything falls into place pretty...
22:59 Fri 03rd Sep 201057 answers, last by Mysterons 23:43 Sat 11th Sep 2010
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Deviant

Guardian Genius 84

Nearly finished this without too many problems, though 10A is a bit ambiguous. Can't decide between 2 possibles for 18D as I don't get the wordplay: Miniature circles right inside Scottish isles...
16:22 Tue 15th Jun 20103 answers, last by bibblebub 16:30 Thu 17th Jun 2010
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midazolam

Listener 4086: Back Gate by Tiburon

My first listener from one of the Magpie team (talk about coincidences from last weeks magpie pitch). Obvious misprints made this fairly straightforward to start but tricky to finish. The theme...
21:16 Fri 14th May 201085 answers, last by IainGrace 20:17 Sat 22nd May 2010
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Zabadak

Listener Crossword 4082

This is a terrific technical challenge, with some fine and fair cluing. It made my head spin towards the end, and I suspect transcription into the final grid is going to be particularly prone to...
22:23 Fri 16th Apr 201076 answers, last by Mysterons 15:48 Sat 24th Apr 2010

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