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Listener 4855 Just The Job By Hedgehog

An excellent numerical with another amazing construction. The trickiest part was to find the first small batch of non-zero values. Thereafter I found it reasonably straightforward. No calculator... ...

upsetter

Listener 4854 Pickle By Skylark

Some tricky misprints/removals to negotiate leading to an amusing puzzle.

Luckily the theme is a particular favourite.

Thanks, Skylark.

Keepatit

Listener 4853 Twisted Sister By Ifor

A tricky, though not unmanageable gridfill, with one particularly devious clue which required crossers to disambiguate the answer. The final step was pretty tough. I found the inventor from the... ...

emcee

Listener 4852 Genius By Degen

Presumably a maiden puzzle by this setter. A decent offering with a few tricky clues. At one stage, I had six clues with removed words as I (wrongly) thought with a couple of them that the clue... ...

HawkCrossword

Listener 4851 Loglog By Botox

I enjoyed this one up to the endgame. If I've got it right - and my answer seems to make sense in a couple of ways - then I found the message from extra words misleading. I'm a big fan of the... ...

Cruncher

The Listener 4851 - Loglog By Botox

Hard to imagine that no-one else has posted already but nothing is coming up. I found the clues pretty tough and delayed myself by failing to read "last and first"letters of the discarded words. I... ...

upsetter

Listener 4850 Counterfeit By Charybdis

A perfectly serviceable Listener puzzle on the medium hardness of the scale - not sure what the technical term is.

The endgame was somewhat underwhelming but not surprising after last week's... ...

upsetter

Listener 4849 - Peace At Last By Priest

An excellent puzzle to start the year. Despite the fiddly nature of finding the clues and all the other elements, an enjoyable solve.

We suspect that other solvers would have seen the literary link... ...

emcee

Listener 4848 Return By Dysart

A cracking finish to a year of great puzzles. What a shame there will be no more Dysart puzzles. A fine setter.

emcee

Listener 4846 Malined Work By Hypnos

An entertaining puzzle -- the clues were fun to solve. I thought it was generous to make 2ac relatively straightforward which proved very helpful in solving in a top-down fashion. I left the grid... ...

emcee

Listener No. 4844 S And T By Aedites

I was hoping for something tougher this week. Most of the clues were of Telegraph difficulty. The theme was fairly obvious after solving a few clues. The PDM for the title was nice. Thanks, Aedites.

emcee

Listener Crossword No. 4843 Excuses, Excuses By Nipper

A very clever puzzle with an amusing endgame. An easy start but the difficulty soon was stepped up. Some nice pieces of logic saved much unnecessary computation. Thanks, Nipper. I enjoyed the challenge.

Cruncher

Listener 4842 For Me And You By Pandiculator

Suspect there must be another thread elsewhere but can't find it. Enjoyed working this one through. The rather unpromising letter sequences took a while to fall into place and the preamble needed... ...

upsetter

Listener 4841 Offhand Remark By Remus

A pleasant enough entry level Listener where the only challenge was our utter lack of knowledge of the theme.

Well constructed but the clues were mostly too simple.

HawkCrossword

Listener 4840 Parentage In Usa By Tringa

Another complex multi-gimmick puzzle, but leading to an unambiguous result (although 10D also solves with the wrong gimmick). There's a lot of work that's gone into this, some of which I am yet to... ...

emcee

Listener 4839 Message By External

A neat puzzle. The song became apparent quite quickly and became an earworm thereafter. Many thanks, eXternal.

emcee

Listener No.4837 Ott By [Tba]

Excellent, tough puzzle with some added humour. Happy to report I'm not at THAT stage yet. Thanks, [tba]

upsetter

Listener 4836 Our Evenings By Kea

An interesting gimmick that was not quite as terrifying as it first appeared to be although we got hung up on 34a which with hindsight is a perfectly fair clue.

Thanks, Kea.

upsetter

Listener 4835 B Is For ... By Piccadilly

A perfectly constructed listener with a slightly unusual gimmick. Briefly held up by a silly error. Thanks, Piccadilly.

HawkCrossword

Listener 4834 Bygone Characters By Shark

There's so little given away in the preamble about the mechanics of this puzzle, I can't really say a lot about it here. But there is a lot to say, and it's a very clever construction which led to... ...

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Listener 4855 Just The Job By Hedgehog

Listener 4854 Pickle By Skylark

Listener 4853 Twisted Sister By Ifor

Listener 4852 Genius By Degen

Listener 4851 Loglog By Botox

The Listener 4851 - Loglog By Botox

Listener 4850 Counterfeit By Charybdis

Listener 4849 - Peace At Last By Priest

Listener 4848 Return By Dysart

Listener 4846 Malined Work By Hypnos

Listener No. 4844 S And T By Aedites

Listener Crossword No. 4843 Excuses, Excuses By Nipper

Listener 4842 For Me And You By Pandiculator

Listener 4841 Offhand Remark By Remus

Listener 4840 Parentage In Usa By Tringa

Listener 4839 Message By External

Listener No.4837 Ott By [Tba]

Listener 4836 Our Evenings By Kea

Listener 4835 B Is For ... By Piccadilly

Listener 4834 Bygone Characters By Shark

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