Fer-de-Lance might be a new name for some Listener solvers.
Chalicea
Listener No 4877 Way to Go by Vismut
Dave Hennings’ crossword database tells us that this will be Vismut’s seventh Listener crossword. We see her compilations regularly in the IQ and EV series and in the Magpie.
Listener No 4876 Hidewell, Adventures in Outer Space
This is only Hidewell’s second Listener crossword. Previously we had ‘The Usher’ (4774 29/07/2023) which was an excellent debut. So what now?
Listener No 4875 Cross-stitch by Alchemist
Is this really only Alchemist’s second Listener crossword?
Listener No 4873 Needs Must by JFD
Dave Hennings’ Crossword Database tells me that this is JFD’s fifth Listener crossword.
Listener No 4872: There’s No Place Like Home by Bungo
Not Bingo but Bungo! Welcome to a new Listener setter – and new to the various series indexed in Dave Hennings’ Database too
Listener Crossword No 4871 Friends by Elgin
It appears that this is Elgin’s eleventh Listener crossword.
Listener No 4870 Fives by KevGar
We see that this is KevGar’s eleventh Listener crossword. KevGar have been producing them since 2012.
Listener 4867: All Four Race by Bell
And we’re off, with a stonker of a puzzle from new setter Bell (well, a new partnership anyway) – this is the work of top practitioners, presumably communicating by Bell Codes. And yes, it does have a railway theme, even if your blogger only spotted it at the end.
Listener No 4866 It’s Not Involved by Quinapalus
Quinapalus gives us seven lines of preamble.
Listener 4865: Location, Location by Arcadia
Yes – a circular grid!