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SealionSteve

Times Jumbo Cryptic 1313 53A

Can someone please help me with parsing 53a "South of Cameroon, an African country (5)". I have S - D - N so assuming those are correct I suppose it's "Sudan". But why? Thanks....
08:49 Wed 21st Mar 20188 answers, last by Neveracrossword 22:10 Sat 24th Mar 2018
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AHearer

Listener No 4394: Against Expectatios By Duck

I had to do a lot of cold solving before I could be sure which were the rogues, but once they were identified it all fell into place quite neatly. A few words to add to the vocabulary, too. Many...
19:27 Fri 15th Apr 201628 answers, last by olichant 12:49 Thu 21st Apr 2016
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Listener No. 4393: Vingt-Et-Un By Little Hare

Another pleasant puzzle, with unambiguous clues and a pretty, if straightforward, end-game. Thanks to Little Hare, both for the puzzle and for sending me back to the source of the message....
16:31 Fri 08th Apr 201627 answers, last by tbayliss 12:42 Tue 12th Apr 2016
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Listener No 4392: A Conversation By Kevgar

Nice straightforward clues, and a theme that never fails to raise a smile. Familiarity with the theme, guessed early, made is possible to see where some clashes were going to be before both...
16:19 Fri 01st Apr 201628 answers, last by Scree 06:55 Sun 10th Apr 2016
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midazolam

Listener Crosswordno 4391: 22Ses Square By Tibea

Lovely puzzle by the Listener editors (Tiburon and Kea). Impressive to think these excerpts were published in the paper. I was thinking as I was solving it that I am still in need of a cryptic clue,...
18:46 Fri 25th Mar 201636 answers, last by tbayliss 00:50 Sun 03rd Apr 2016
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Listener 4309: Shades Of Green By Gos

Thanks to Gos for featuring one of my favourites. I did think, though, that many of the clues were Times Cryptic (or even the easy cryptic) standard rather than Listener. It must have been hard to get...
15:59 Fri 29th Aug 201441 answers, last by tbayliss 12:07 Wed 03rd Sep 2014
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Zabadak

Listener 4085: Atom Smasher by Llig

Though there's another thread on on 4095, and I've contributed to it, this might help get the conversation started, though I suspect not a long one. There really isn't much to this (sorry Llig, and...
19:24 Fri 16th Jul 201051 answers, last by IainGrace 09:33 Sat 24th Jul 2010
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Listener 4091: Mind the Gap by Calmac

16:25 Fri 18th Jun 201071 answers, last by S-matrix 07:01 Sat 26th Jun 2010
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tbayliss

Times 24556 22a

Crooner wanted to hold another singer back ?R?N (4). Bit baffled by this
22:45 Sun 06th Jun 20103 answers, last by tbayliss 07:23 Mon 07th Jun 2010
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Philoctetes

Listener 4088 - Digimix by Oyler

Well, thank goodness we have a long weekend. I think I might need that to work out what the blazes the clues mean! I had one theory, but the rubric that all entries are different turned me towards a...
15:17 Fri 28th May 201093 answers, last by Philoctetes 14:14 Fri 04th Jun 2010
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turnerjmw

Listener 4049: The Domino Effect by Googly

The dreaded numbers. Googly was last seen in November 2006 with Solve Two, Get One Free. I enjoyed this. Not too much heavy duty calculator work, and it all fell smoothly into place. Cheers, Googly
12:54 Sat 29th Aug 200974 answers, last by Cruncher 08:56 Thu 10th Sep 2009
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turnerjmw

Listener 4044 - OOOOPPPP by Raich

This week's puzzle is by Raich, who last brought us "Men In Her Life", a George Eliot-themed puzzle two years ago . Nothing too taxing or out of the ordinary here, though the finish might generate a...
18:01 Fri 24th Jul 200950 answers, last by tbayliss 22:27 Tue 28th Jul 2009
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midazolam

Listener 4042: How to Put On a Little Weight by Charybdis

A while since Charybdis' last Listener (The difficult "Wot no Lines?" in 2007) The grid fill here is much easier, and the quotation was got only after 12 entries. We are left with an ambiguity that...
10:17 Sat 11th Jul 200955 answers, last by darrensma 17:24 Mon 20th Jul 2009
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midazolam

Listener 4038: Playtime by Samuel

I am pretty sure there are no ambiguities with Samuel's effort this time! An enjoyable finish, even though many of the extra letters in the clues stood out very blatantly. This type of cluing is hard...
23:24 Fri 12th Jun 200936 answers, last by Mysterons 16:43 Fri 19th Jun 2009

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