Thanks for the video!

I'm quite impressed with myself here, having gotten three answers entirely on my own (3-Down, 12-Across, 24-Down) and a few more that after the first bit of help I could figure out quicker than you. But of course, you still got a lot of clues I wouldn't have, so huge props! I was also pleasantly surprised to see your rundown of the Listener earlier this week; that was a very intriguing puzzle, and a well-edited video to boot. Thanks for all the crossword content!

Having seen the whole video I absolutely agree that 16 down was, indeed, ...

Excellent as always. The listener solve was very enlightening.

After your recent fantastic winning streak things have gone a bit pear-shaped. What have you done to annoy the Scrabble gods?

What a brilliant game, regardless of the final score!

Great effort; fingers crossed for a win in the next vid!

Doesn't it seem absurd how so many arcane foreign words are allowed, yet 'le' is not?

I think ZAG may have been the final nail in the coffin.

Appreciate the time you took to animate this. It is fascinating.

There seemed quite a few unusual words and so I was surprised by the low Snitch rating.

The Listener is to cryptic crossword solvers what a normal cryptic crossword is to normal people.

GAMMONY not good as mentioned in comments & that set of tiles doesnt make 8's other than MONOGAMY. interesting as such how D7 VODOUN (23:35, note - _not_ VOUDON) wouldnt hv given opp the bonus back. that 1 move could hv given u a shot back in the game worth noting how opp was making a fair no. of rookie decisions despite their dominance. the 1 tile fish from a rack of AHIIOV? feels _very_ off, 4 instance 👀🤔

Way to hang in there David.

oof

GAMMONY not good but no problems when you have two spots on either side of the board to play MONOGAMY! Ridiculous game, but that's why we love it!

60 years ago two of us attempted to solve The Listener crosswords. Mostly we failed!

i've got to say this was a bit of a boring watch. I like to see you figure things out David.

Is there no penalty for entering an invalid word e.g. RAFIA?

David, I remember in a previous video you said that solving this had nearly made you ill. I think I would have been climbing the walls too ! As for the "hawk tuah", I almost spat out my mouthful of tea, which I suppose is a fitting reaction, in a way.

That was amazing. The instructions were so difficult I couldn't even make sense of them. Thank you for breaking down the whole puzzle and instructions. I like this format where you showed in the dictionary how you got the answers and the breakdown of point of origin.

Not sure what's more surprising, just quite how insane that puzzle was, or the hawk tuah gag from the most unlikely of sources 🤣. That really was fantastic. Well done chap.

Every now and again I am reminded that they are amongst us!

Thanks for sharing. I struggled with this one for at least four days. I don't remember going down the "leviathan" rabbit hole but I definitely saw "bible". I think I, too, stumbled across the answer by googling some plausible letter combinations. They *used* to say that you should be able to solve the Listener with nothing more than Chambers and a couple of other reference books. I wouldn't have stood a chance without a pattern matcher to find those fish and Google to steer me towards Lear. Incredibly tough but equally satisfying to finally get over the line.

Increíble!

Fantastic vid and congrats on the milestone! You made 4 days of effort seen so easy, I listen get confused just by the preamble to the Listener! More of this please, one day maybe I to will be able to hawk tush on that thing! (Was not expecting that, well played sir, well played).

I was so exited for this video and it did not disappoint! Thank you Mr. Webb my mind has been blown 😱

Beautiful presentation, made everything as clear is possible with such a fiendish puzzle

Good lord I see why it took you four days. I’m not sure I would have gotten a single answer. 😂

what the heck

4 days? I couldn’t solve in a million years!

Hawk tuah from dweeb after literally thousands of hours of straight-laced scrabble commentary has completed ended me. I shall die happy

Wonderful in every regard. There are so few of these on youtube and I have watched and rewatched them all. Thank you Dweeb.

Happy centenary. I actually got jute.

you did not just make a hawk tuah joke at the end of that 🤣🤣🤣

I specifically paused at 23:45 and made a graph of which letters follow which in order. I also came up with aunt, bible and job, and was SURE that it's the leviathan. Who knew that a bible reference just wasn't far-fetched enough 😆

Wow, what a puzzle, and what an amazing solve. You completely lost me with the decoding of the description of the runcible cat, however I think you may have given a big clue about the nature your job that you're not allowed to talk about. I always suspected that you had an IQ in the 200 range, and this video seems to confirm that. What is the snitch rating of this puzzle?

And I feel pleased when I complete the Metro cryptic. Wow, this is on a completely different level! Magnificent.

Brilliantly solved (as usual), well beyond my capability but I did sense something fishy was going on from reading the instructions🐟

Wow @:@

Fantastic, I was unaware of the Listener crossword. It looks diabolical. 😅

Good grief. As a Telegraph daily cryptic solver this is completely mind boggling. Thank you so much David for this wonderfully crafted and prepared explanation of the solve.

Extremely impressively! I wonder how other people solved it. Was it 4 days non-stop or did you have a break in the middle?!

David you are unbelievable...ichneumon, smarmy, mallow, Algonquin are all words I have never heard of and you just write them in! I think you must have got a Chambers Dictionary as an 8th Birthday present and learnt it by heart?

Seriously, how many people in this world could even begin this, let alone finish it? I knew about 3 words in the solved puzzle. Cant imagine there are many who attempt it.

Of all the creators I follow I wouldn't have expected it to be you to make a hawk-tuah reference!

This hurts my brain, badly. ("Badly" is not an anagram indicator).

That was superb. A marvellous puzzle. Thank you for such a helpful video.

Well done! Thank you as always for sharing your solve. Here's a clue of my own: Eccentric nobodies view great KZbin channel (12)

Amazing general knowledge as well as crossword genius, well done :)