Comments on: Azed 1868 – Carte Blanche http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/03/23/azed-1868-carte-blanche/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 06:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: linxit http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/03/23/azed-1868-carte-blanche/#comment-17614 linxit Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:18:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/03/23/azed-1868-carte-blanche/#comment-17614 The answer to (e) is actually TRIO, i.e. R,I inside TO. Look up leash in Chambers.

PORTE is (per Ottomans)* less tomans, and toman is a Persian word for 10,000.

]]> By: jetdoc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/03/23/azed-1868-carte-blanche/#comment-17597 jetdoc Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:00:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/03/23/azed-1868-carte-blanche/#comment-17597 I can’t fully work out TRI[E] (if that’s the answer) either — the wordplay sort of works, but what is the definition? The only Chambers definition is ‘an obsolete spelling of try’, which hardly fits ‘one’s following’. I sort of wondered whether TRIP was the answer, but couldn’t really make that fit either.

Similarly, PORTE — but, this not being a blogging week for me, I just wrote it in and didn’t think about it too much.

Thanks for the explanation of KALPAK. That’s a pretty obscure clue, although it was possible to solve it using checking letters without fully understanding it.

I think SPANK may be the error Don M referred to on the Crossword Centre’s message board.

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