The Listener Crossword

Well, I never. I'm 4 letters away from finishing the Listener crossword. I might have got as many as three clues before but don't usually even understand the guidance.

Completing the grid, though, is only a part of it. This week, there's an extra letter in each clue and you need to make the refrain from a song and the names of its authors from them and then 'solvers must highlight the five characters who come around'.

Well, I can almost make Stock, Aitken and Waterman from the letters I have and then I'm left with ERSFLROOWOSISD and half a dozen ?s.

But I'm thrilled with that performance even if I don't succeed with the remainder.

There might never be another such day. 

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PS. I've just found an online forum where everybody's saying that was the easiest Listener crossword ever. Not to worry.