Comments for Listen With Others

Comment on Table-turning by Kea by Jake

Jake — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:19:13 +0000

Hi Shirley.

Phew! that was a crossword and a half!!! Brilliant stuff. I finally made it to three cuts.

Comment on Listener 4098: Schadenfreude’s Language Balancing (or A Cog in the Machine) by bb

bb — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:59:20 +0000

I always preferred “Gunfight at the OK Corral in Morse Code.”

Comment on Listener 4098: Schadenfreude’s Language Balancing (or A Cog in the Machine) by shirley curran

shirley curran — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:07:08 +0000

Yes, indeed – who could resist commenting on that brilliant HOWFFS clue – the SHOW-OFFS!

Comment on Half-Thyme by Dipper by David Agg

David Agg — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:30:57 +0000

If you cup you hands with your fingers pointing away from you, then they more or less enclose a steradian – it’s a natural unit!

Comment on Some Assembly Required by Mr E by Jake

Jake — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:21:23 +0000

This was a fantastic crossword. By far the best Listener – though still being new – that I have come across. There were lots of levels here, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can’t say what my favorite clue was because there were too many, and then the decoding! Highly recommended to any crossword fan.

I was unsure about 23d. Why Chambers says ‘a patch of grass in a forest’. But it was Gladys (Knights) which was the solution indicator. Lots of PDM’s

Thanks for the blog.

Comment on Some Assembly Required by Mr E by Dave Hennings

Dave Hennings — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:59:07 +0000

Erwin
The three words you mention all show where the replaced letter goes: R among FEED MAN, D after anag of BELEM TEAMS I, and YES accommodating X (reversed).
Like you, I found it quite challenging, not to mention great fun, as you’ll see in my blog when it appears at 5pm (it should have been 4!).
Dave.

Comment on Some Assembly Required by Mr E by erwinch

erwinch — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:35:08 +0000

Yes, an excellent puzzle but there seemed to be several superfluous words in some clues. My five additional clues were:

[ONUS] Each expert's about prize apiece - PIE in ACE
[ZARF] Grandma's tiramisu uses wine Asti - Hidden
[HIVE] Mistakenly cite Hopi tongue Ethiopic - CITE HOPI (anag)
[PJCKMQW] African city grew up getting into dry area Rosetta - ROSE + TT + A
[LXDYBTG] Our people started rioting after hurtful publications illustrateds - ILL + US + STARTED (mixed)

But this leaves some odd clues: for example, I don't know what among is doing in 34ac and after in 4dn. Accommodating in 35ac also seems superfluous but I don't like to be too critical of a puzzle that I found to be highly unusual and the most challenging Listener for quite some time.

Comment on Listener 4095: Atom Smasher by Llig (or 50:50-ig) by Andy W

Andy W — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:42:18 +0000

JAVA – first one I got, but failed to solve the puzzle, mainly through lack of time. I tend to judge solveability (for me) in the first 5 minutes, and I’m rarely wrong, and even then I err on the side of caution. This one looked like the equivalent of a Magpie B grade, but I only managed an hour with it, and got about a third of the clues – neatly avoiding all but one of the clashes (JAVA/SPACEMEN, unsurprisingly). I didn’t solve anywhere near enough to see the theme though, and didn’t look at it again until today.

Comment on Listener 4095: Atom Smasher by Llig (or 50:50-ig) by Dave Hennings

Dave Hennings — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:56:46 +0000

Erwin (and anyone else who may be interested)
I am being deliberately vague here, but I have an EV puzzle by Kea which you may not have seen. It’s amazing. If you would like a copy, drop me an email at d42h42 at gmail dot com.
Dave.

Comment on Listener 4095: Atom Smasher by Llig (or 50:50-ig) by erwinch

erwinch — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:03:11 +0000

I had seen atom being read as A to M in a previous puzzle and a search of The Crossword Database confirmed this as being Speech Balloon by Charybdis, Independent Weekend puzzle 501 (Jan 2005) - I still have it on file. Still, there is no copyright on devices used in crosswords. I too struggled with Java, as the coffee of course.