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jim360
A very pleasant way to end the year. Grid is chock-full of thematic material, and despite the multiple gimmicks it wasn't too difficult to break into the clues, probably a few very generous ones to...
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TheBear69
Thanks, Pointer, for an absolutely superb Listener. Maybe POTY......
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TheBear69
Thanks for a good challenge, Kea. It was a nice challenge to determine the answers that had extra letters and not easy to get the two items from the extra letters. I am a bit concerned about what I...
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trux
Certainly this theme was something new to me, and I am not sure that I understand all of its nuances but have managed to complete the final grid even so. Some very deft touches in both the clues and...
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Ripper
I've filled in the grid (and spotted many references to the milestone) I've got the rhetorical question. But now I'm completely stuck! "each of four answers describes a pair of others etc....." I've...
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AHearer
Again, not too tricky. I admit, though, to having got the word from the quotation rather than by more direct means, and I should go back and check where two of the letters came from. Thanks, Kruger....
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trux
Have mixed feelings about this as some elements are truly very fine indeed but there seem to be a few inconsistencies in the details. For a long while, I imagined something more magnificent (maybe...
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djawhufc
Hi I've recently started doing The Listener and was wondering about subscribing to The Magpie. Is it worth joining? Thanks DJA...
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BobHWW
A nice gentle solve after last week's rather tough one. Sneaky title!
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perseverer
Grid just about filled - theme understood - now I just have to make proper sense of the preamble! Well worth persevering!...
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jim360
Kea is one of my favourite setters and this one is a delight. Took me a while to see what was going on, but once it all clicked it was well worth the wait. Thanks Kea!!
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olichant
Oh my goodness. What an incredible feat from Radix. I have not been able to put this down since I got a foothold in - the construction, symmetry and elegance make the mind boggle. I am slightly...
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Alekhine
Almost midnight and no thread yet? Something wrong, surely? This wasn't that hard....
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trux
Wowee! Amazing stuff, but really hard to fathom initially and then, and then...all of it starts to fall into place ... pause ... think again ... think again ... Eureka!! A joy, Mr Lavatch. Many, many...
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trux
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...
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Ruthrobin
Surely I am not the first to post? This has been delightful all the way through and I just laughed out loud at the help the Internet gave me. Great fun, thank you, Plinth.
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Twit-Who
Not a subject I know anything about (or want to) but Google to the rescue. On reading the preamble I felt a warm glow when I saw that highlighting was required this week. Not feeling so confident now...
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Zabadak
Persuaded out of a Listener sabbatical by the early posting on the website, I worked my way through this (thankfully) relatively straightforward issue at a steady pace and with just enough enthusiasm....
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dr b
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...
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jim360
At times this was deeply frustrating -- after making a lot of progress all at once I lost track of what I knew and what I didn't. Eventually managed to make the breakthrough once I made use of a real...

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