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Malone,

You’re very kind.

Thank you - and for all your efforts on the Forum

Chris&Sue

The link posted earlier to the Times article has an extra full stop at the end which stopped it working for me.
Here is a link through 12 ft ladder that should work for everyone regardless of whether you have a subscriprion.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2F50th-annual-listener-crossword-dinner-puzzles-clues-2023-bn3kx0327
I hope……

Oops. It looks as though the 12 ft ladder link only gets you the first part of the article. A 12 ft ladder usually gets over most paywalls but perhaps the Times have made their paywalls even higher.
Here is the original link without the extra full stop that should work - but only for subscribers.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/50th-annual-listener-crossword-dinner-puzzles-clues-2023-bn3kx0327

Apologies for the mis-placed full stop, Smithsax. It's a deeply ingrained habit which I must remember to restrain when giving out urls.

In answer to quixote at #42, I leave it to others to judge whether he is a "prominent creative genius" but the novelist Alan Hollinghurst was listed as a winner of puzzle 4662.

Malone - no - my "Ahhh" was a "Bless!" - I should have put an exclamation mark on it.

Was overcome with warm feelings by your exchange of sweet nothings with the SimpleSimons.


(- it was either that, or "Gentle weader feelth quite thick*)

* I think that's a brutal critique of "Christopher Robin is Saying his Prayers", etc, from Dorothy L Sayers?, maybe in the New Yorker - but can't find it anywhere by Googling. Anyone recognise it?

And the names of some more creative genius Listener addicts would be welcome, too.

Thanks for the couple so far.

Ahhh! (!) - got it!
It was the New Yorker - but it was Dorothy Parker (silly me - of courseit was...)
...and it was "Tonstant Weader Fwowed up".

Ahhh yes; I remember it well...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1928/10/20/far-from-well

- the "feels quite sick" confusion comes, of course! from the 1888 Punch cartoon showing the bilious old gentleman nauseated by the sweet nothings being exchanged by Angelina and Edwin - so actually more appropriate than Parker's ridicule.

https://magazine.punch.co.uk/image/I0000cr5XgcXCSdE

But none of this emesis applies to the gentle and mutually respectful relationship between our own Malone and the SimpleSimons, naturally. I'm sorry to even have suggested such a thing.

Hadn't seen that cartoon since spending happy hours skiving off with the bound volumes of Punch in the Boys' Library in about 1955'

I could go on like this for hours.