Comments on: FT 12518 / Flimsy – Straightforward(ish) http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/24/ft-12518-flimsy-straightforwardish/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:45:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: smiffy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/24/ft-12518-flimsy-straightforwardish/#comment-3232 smiffy Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:14:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/24/ft-12518-flimsy-straightforwardish/#comment-3232 Slight correction on 9a. The “Da” is not doing double duty (otherwise we’d have two As). Wordplay is do (“celebration”) after the anagram.

Relieved to see confirmation of 7d (ELIOT). I had a mindfart on this one, before settling on it via the erroneous route of TS Eliot (a literary all-rounder who wrote pretty much everything except novels. Doh!).

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/24/ft-12518-flimsy-straightforwardish/#comment-3223 Paul B Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:53:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/24/ft-12518-flimsy-straightforwardish/#comment-3223 Nice blog by the way – very prompt …

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/24/ft-12518-flimsy-straightforwardish/#comment-3222 Paul B Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:37:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/24/ft-12518-flimsy-straightforwardish/#comment-3222 24dn: I think that is supposed to be THEY without HE plus THE. This variant is in Chambers, but not the most recent Collins.

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