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The clues...
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The theme...
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The Listener is a unique puzzle and should be treated with respect.

All good fun and nicely put together. Cheers, Serpent

Took me a bit longer to complete, Quisling! - I agree with your comment - thanks to Serpent

An interesting and previously unknown subject elegantly depicted.

Thanks, Serpent

After that daunting preamble (FIVE unclued entries in a blank grid puzzle!),this was actually more straightforward than I expected. Definitely not too easy, though.

In the spirit of several comments on #4913, I made an assumption about the structure of the grid, quickly found that that was wrong, but then managed to get it done from my second start.

I agree with Upsetter's description.

Thanks, Serpent.

Also enjoyed this. Agree it was less daunting than first appeared. End game took me a little while to figure out what was going on.

No grid guessing required for me. After cold solving about eight (including first across and second and third down) I had the NW / SE structure and it all followed very nicely from there.

I can't get a toehold on this at all! I have solved a mere 18 clues and the initial letters of the extra words in those don't seem to make a lot of sense yet. A hint to the first across clue may help. I think I know where the down clues start, but that isn't helping me.

Got the first across answer now.

Excellent puzzle, nicely unpredictable and coming together beautifully at the end. I'm not sure the hidden message was needed.

This was excellent. Very good clues.