For those of you who missed Saturday night’s Annual Listener Awards in Bristol, here are the winners:

Ascot Gold Cup for the best puzzle: Singles Only by Twin (Colin Thomas)

Solver Silver Salver for the longest all-correct run and not won before: Paul Taylor & Katie Steckles with 154 correct (Peter Blayney still in front overall with 314 correct)

Radix Auditorum Jug for the best newcomer: Ian Hickman (37 of first 41 submissions correct)

The top puzzles as voted by the all-correct solvers for the year were:

1. Singles Only by Twin
2. Follow the Directions Again by Artix
3. Faux Pas by Tringa
4. A Wrap-up by Kea
5. Short Seats by Yorick
6. New Arrivals by Avian
7. Red Applause by Crash
8. Map by Pointer
9. Late Arrival by Aragon
10. (tied) Sequences by Elap + Season’s Greetings by Lionheart + Envy by Quinapalus

For those of you who missed Saturday night’s Listener Awards, here are the winners:

Ascot Gold Cup for the best puzzle: Manhunt by Shark (Darren Roberts)

Solver Silver Salver for the longest all-correct run and not won before: David Giles with 131 correct (Peter Blayney still in front overall with 261 correct)

Radix Auditorum Jug for the best newcomers: Abigail Royal & Nick Butler

Here is a run-down of the top ten puzzles as voted on by the all-correct solvers for the year:

1. Manhunt by Shark
2. Elusive Figures by Poat
3. Variety Show by Enigmatist
4. Hungry by Android
5. Dice Nets by Arden
6. Impossible Construction by Serpent
7. Co-star by Lysander
8. Nostimus by Sabre
9. Music Box by tnap
10. Harry East by Lath

For those of you who missed last night’s Listener Awards hosted over Zoom by Jane Teather and John Henderson, here are the winners:

Ascot Gold Cup for the best puzzle: Tip-top Condition by Twin (Colin Thomas), finished grid below

Solver Silver Salver for the longest all-correct run: Peter Blayney

Radix Auditorum Jug for the best newcomer: James Leaver

Here is a run-down of the top ten puzzles as voted on by the all-correct solvers for the year:

An erratum concerning Listener puzzle No 4616, Disco Lovers by The Ace of Hearts has been published on the Listener puzzles website. Here’s a link:
http://www.listenercrossword.com/

Unfortunately, there was a very premature post from Encota at LWO last night (Friday) which has now been deleted. However, those of you receiving an RSS feed will have had an email for it and many apologies for that. I hope you realised what it was before reading it and that your enjoyment of Charybdis’s puzzle wasn’t, or won’t be, spoilt. In any case, please delete it.

Once again, many apologies.

Dave.