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Listener number fifteen from Ifor this week and you know you’ll be in for a treat. A carte blanche, no clue numbers and no entry or answer lengths! There were no entry lengths … 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.
A seemingly new setter this week, although from his entry over at the Listener Crossword website, it appears that he has been in a previous collaboration.
Botox is a collaboration between two long-standing Listener setters, Artix (who is pretty tough) and Shark (who is also pretty tough). Last year’s Listener dinner was held in Lincoln, and I bumped into … Read more >>
I have been intrigued by Eliot’s poetry (without ever fully understanding it) since I first read The Waste Land at university. What fascinates me is the richness of the literary allusions from a … Read more >>
Just over a year since the last Listener puzzle from Charybdis and that was based on the Necker cube. [As of writing, solver and setter blogs for Charybdis Listeners can still be seen … Read more >>
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 >>
Here we are with the first puzzle of 2025. It’s also the first time in over 33 years that entries will go winging their way to an address not in St Albans. It’s … Read more >>
This was the final puzzle from Dysart (the late Andy Stewart) following on from no. 4829, Bigfoot in August. I was surprised to find that this was his 64th, going way back to … 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 >>
As this puzzle was published, the run-up to Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 was in full swing. This week and next would be the final hurdle for those so far all-correct to … Read more >>
Today sees the migration of Listen With Others to fifteensquared under the category Listener. I have been setting blogs over at LWO for the best part of fifteen years although there has been … Read more >>