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Being relatively new to Listener crosswords I thought I'd begun to
get the hang a bit and I've even completed three in the past three months. But I can't understand a flipping word of all this- it might as well have been written in Swahili. So I went to the pictures on Saturday instead.
If next week's as difficult I might just revert back to the ordinary Times crossword which can (usually) manage!
You're all very clever

The preamble makes it sound more daunting than it probably was. If I didn't do the crossword every time that I found the preamble daunting, I'd probably never do it! The best thing is to read the preamble a couple of times and then just ignore it and dive in. As you start to solve clues you might come across something that doesn't quite make sense but maybe rings a bell from the preamble. Park that one for now (you can come back to it later) and carry on trying to solve. Things do start to become clearer as you wade through it and you find more that don't quite make sense and a 'pattern' starts to emerge. Then you can go back to the preamble and see if these things you're finding relate to what it says. It's worth persevering..... I thought this was quite a good one, well constructed. Good luck.