Never knowingly undersolved
Chalicea Grids with no bars (and a bar pattern that is not symmetrical and must not be shown) and clues giving no word lengths are somewhat daunting. There’s an intriguing device that is going … Read more >>
It seems we have a new setter here. We have something (or things) circling the perimeter and will find four words that will be removed from clues that will provide the unchecked letters.
Clashes in four cells, four unclued lights and a string of four letters to be changed after filling the grid. There was nothing too disconcerting there and, as the founder of the Listener … Read more >>
Perhaps it is misguided of us to expect a gentle puzzle for the first of the Listener year. This one promised a literary work and we were going to find ‘echoes’ in every … Read more >>
A rather sad “Goodbye!” We find that we have Dysart’s last Listener in front of us and know that this will be the last one that JEG will mark. Sad, but also extremely … Read more >>
It was evident early on that this crossword was about Christmas (as those letters in circles soon told us). The word MEAN in various contexts appeared in the title and the preamble. SCROOGE? … Read more >>
A welcome return to the Listener by Hypnos, aka Slueth and Shamus and indeed Phlip Marlow in the Church Times under his own name (spot the references to his near-namesake investigator) … I … Read more >>