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That was definitely not a walk in the park but, despite thinking that I would DNF at several points, the thing came together in the end and I thought some of the devices were novel. The quantity of thematic references was most impressive, Thank you, Priest.

35. Have you looked up the middle 4 letter word in the dictionary?

I meant to add that the title of the puzzle gave me a smile.

Parsing for 31 is ('absent' within 'empty bottles') + I + 'see!' + 'river'.

Thanks, all clear now. I had a different answer for 35 (different second letter) which also just about works for the definition I think, but that makes more sense.

Hello - does anyone have the new address to send entries to? Like an idiot I posted mine off to St Albans.... Thank you!

Listener Crossword 4849, 19 Fairfax Drive, Pontefract, WF8 1NU, to arrive by January 16.

Belated Happy New Year to the forum!

Very late starting this but enjoying the completely bonkers clues so far. Though a quick scan of previous posts suggests a disappointing endgame awaits

I wasn’t able to get the physical paper this week due to illness; can anyone tell me the winners of number 4845, whose names were delayed until this week because of the Christmas deadline change?

https://www.listenercrossword.com/Years/Puzzles/L4/L48/L4845.html