Comments on: Financial Times 12,758 by Cinephile — Ice malt? (7, 5) http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/#comment-33862 Pete Maclean Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:28:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1546#comment-33862 Ah! Good point, Scott. Thank you. As in “Air On A G-String” which, perhaps, makes G stand out over other notes.

]]> By: Scott Fitzgerald http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/#comment-33829 Scott Fitzgerald Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:50:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1546#comment-33829 Pete and Wil, the G-String refered to is not the garment but one of the strings on a musical instrument. Therefore any of eight letters may be the answer in the same pattern as “note” might refer to do, re, mi, etc. ie, there is more than one possible answer unlike only one V-neck or one T-square option which seems to be your quibble.

]]> By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/#comment-27815 Pete Maclean Wed, 21 May 2008 02:01:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1546#comment-27815 Wil, your comment prompted me to think a lot about the matter and I have decided that I do not like it either. After all, we do not generally see, for example, frame cluing A, square cluing T, neck cluing V or factor cluing X. The only exceptions I can think of are shirt cluing T (which may be a special case because a T shirt is also known at a tee) and bend cluing U (which also has some extra justification).

]]> By: Wil Ransome http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/#comment-27592 Wil Ransome Sun, 18 May 2008 20:35:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1546#comment-27592 I don’t like string = g in 1ac. Presumably this is g-string but, although g-string can I suppose equal string, I don’t see how g equals g-string. Brass doesn’t equal brass hat, kipper doesn’t equal kipper tie, and so on.

]]> By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/#comment-26726 Pete Maclean Thu, 15 May 2008 15:57:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1546#comment-26726 Rishi, thanks, I am obliged to you again. ROBESON is a better answer given that one does not normally wear an orb. And thanks Magpie for the 1A explanation. I had begun to wonder if “string” referred to the descender on the g!

]]> By: Magpie http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/#comment-26686 Magpie Thu, 15 May 2008 12:59:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1546#comment-26686 Hi Pete
The construction for 1 across is round object (ball) string (g – no comment!) have (own).
Rishi is right – 18A is Robeson (Paul, famous singer from many years ago). I went for Orbison first but revised it on getting brass hat, which was one of my last ones.

]]> By: C G Rishikesh http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/#comment-26582 C G Rishikesh Thu, 15 May 2008 07:15:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1546#comment-26582 18ac may be ROBESON (robe’s on). A proper name?

]]> By: C G Rishikesh http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/15/financial-times-12758-by-cinephile-ice-malt-7-5/#comment-26580 C G Rishikesh Thu, 15 May 2008 07:04:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1546#comment-26580 Pete,

I did not solve his but the moment I put down on paper the pattern ?O?S?H?T and read the clue, I thought the answer was BRASS HAT.

brass – money; cover – hat

Now that crossing letter O needs to be checked.

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