Comments on: Financial Times 12,657 by Mudd http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/17/financial-times-12657-by-mudd/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/17/financial-times-12657-by-mudd/#comment-11983 Pete Maclean Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:00:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/17/financial-times-12657-by-mudd/#comment-11983 Testy, Ah that sounds right! I do not recall coming across such usage before though.

Smiffy, Perhaps I was trying to see more than was intended but, yes, it could work either way.

]]> By: smiffy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/17/financial-times-12657-by-mudd/#comment-11976 smiffy Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:21:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/17/financial-times-12657-by-mudd/#comment-11976 I saw 23D simply as a double def’n. But, now you mention it, I agree that it works as a hidden (or perhaps “&hidden”) clue too.
At the risk of sounding smug, I thought that this was one of the easiest Saturday puzzles for quite a while. V. enjoyable nonetheless.

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/17/financial-times-12657-by-mudd/#comment-11962 Testy Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:52:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/17/financial-times-12657-by-mudd/#comment-11962 15D I think that the insertion indicator is implicit, if one is crying one is “in tears”. It’s like that resting/sleeping = in “bed” thing that often gets used.

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