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Listener 4860 Lost By Dash

A very good introductory Listener from a first time setter.
This was always going to be a hard slot to fill after the last two puzzles. Thanks, Dash.

upsetter

Listener 4859 - Forever By Twin

An absolutely fantastic construction.
Clues of consistent difficulty but not too opaque and an endgame with no grid stare of GWIT factor.

Thanks, Twin.

emcee

Listener 4858 Lavish Border By Hawk

Gosh, that was quite a workout, Hawk. The clues were pretty evil! Fortunately, after solving just over half the clues 'cold' I was able to make progress with the grid and teased the remainder out... ...

upsetter

Listener 4857 - Art Of The Possible By Poat

An elegant construction with a stunning denouement and no guessing needed. Thanks, Poat.

emcee

Listener 4856 If You Say So By Tuds

I thought the clues were tricky in places (in fact, I still have 31ac and 37dn to understand thoroughly). But what a pointless, strange endgame. The title, I guess, says it all. Thanks, Tuds.

emcee

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... ...

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Listener 4860 Lost By Dash

Listener 4859 - Forever By Twin

Listener 4858 Lavish Border By Hawk

Listener 4857 - Art Of The Possible By Poat

Listener 4856 If You Say So By Tuds

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

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