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Still travelling, so no scan of this one, though it's rather a sight. (Edit: added now I'm back)

Phi got in touch with me after I wrote up his puzzle last year and gave me some tips, pointers, a bonus puzzle and has been a genuinely nice guy. Which still staggers me that draw a mental block when it has come to his Listener puzzles. I thought I was going to make a good fist of this, I like the shape of the grid, symmetric but not conventional (and there's gridlines too!). Preamble may be giving the game away somewhat normal clues have a disorder, which means probably a jumble, maybe a letter astray. Clues entered normally have an extra letter. Let's go a-hunting.

The pub session did manage to happen on the day this Listener came out - things on the home front have become more hectic so a leisurely Friday lunch is no longer a guarantee. I had a hard time unravelling the clues, even though I've had a bit of luck lately with the extra letters thing. So I returned from the pub feeling pretty good about...

1 across - S,TAB so probably a jumble
14 across - some form of ADIOS in plural... ADIOSA ADIOSES ADIOSESAMAMUS - the wordplay seems to be only giving me ADIOS
15 across is probably HAWAII but can't quite think why. Just sounded nice
19 across and we're off -A,POO(R)P - and there's a word in the grid
21 G,ATE
22 I thought this was probably WAK(e),A
30 (N)B,RIGHT and another word in
34 F,IRE

and for the downs

1 Some form of SCUPPER? That wouldn't fit with that WAKA... hmmm
2 ANIL becomes ANUL - it may be worth scanning the grid to see that I had drawn a picture of it to the side
3 BIG from GIB(e) reversed
4 INSI(N)STED
5 Maybe ARAME but can't see the wordplay, had ARAME from definition
7 OU,ZO(E)???
8 SEA PURSE+D
9 SHIAH - another jumble
12 AGIT,A(S)TO,R
23 A,(S)TOP

But then craziness set in and I didn't get another chance to look at it until I was on the road and without Chambers (I should get the online version). I take Bradfords on the road with me, and saw that 3 was probably SAD (from DA(I)S), 28 down was most likely HIDE and 17 down probably TWITE (don't know about that roof ornament).

So with the extra letters I had R-N-IS-ED-S-S-ER (reorganised something?) but a pretty sparse grid and not a lot of time or options to check answers. Phi wins again!

2009 tally: Listener 5, George 13. Current streak: Listener 2

What amounts to normal service will be resumed next week when I will be back home. Feel free to leave comments, and see everyone next week for some beating of it.