Listener No 4526: Quads III by Shark
Posted by Dave Hennings on 16 Nov 2018
This was the fifth Shark Listener puzzle, and the third in the Quads series. I suppose it would be natural to expect a fourth, but this one would be hard to top.
There’s only time for some brief thoughts from me this week. For a start 33 out of 44 clues used a gimmick that took me a few minutes to get my head round: “… one letter and spacing have been changed in the definition…”. This was thoroughly entertaining, and made some of the clues a real pig (apologies to pigs). The first clue I solved was Five rallying game with Croatia (4) which became River allying game with Croatia (4) leading to RUHR (RU + HR). Shark clues are generally pretty tough but this added an extra dimension of toughness. Here are some highlights:
| 14ac | EASES | Almost stand opening of sitcom for us (5) became Almost stand opening of sit comforts (5) EASE(l) + S(it) |
| 30ac | QUI-HYE | No longer arrogant after unionist’s introduced to chief fluent Anglo-Indian (6) became No longer arrogant after unionist’s introduced to chi affluent Anglo-Indian (6) HYE after (U in QI) |
| 40ac | ATTEST | Man of estate travels round Thailand with mum (6) became Manifest ate travels round Thailand with mum (6) ATE around T + ST |
| 8dn | OLE | In Spain, who online gets sucked into withdrawn game? (3) became In Spain, whoop line gets sucked into withdrawn game? (3) L in EO< |
| 25dn | MOGHUL | Tom, possibly, with bulk to evict one liberally nasty member from India (6) became Tom, possibly, with bulk to evict one liberal dynasty member from India (6) MOG + HULL – L |
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