Comments on: Financial Times 12,980 / Aardvark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/21/financial-times-12980-aardvark/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 22:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/21/financial-times-12980-aardvark/#comment-64482 Gaufrid Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:19:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5131#comment-64482 11d The only possible explanation I have been able to come up with is that the ‘s’ at the end of kitchen’s is an abbreviation and the clue is intended to be read as:

Kitchen, section missing, early English joint

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/21/financial-times-12980-aardvark/#comment-64469 Gaufrid Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:24:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5131#comment-64469 Hi Persephone

Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve visited any city (or town of any significant size), and I never see any TV adverts, so I am out of touch when it comes to modern retail outlets and have never heard of ‘Prêt a Manger’.

With regard to ‘engineers’, it is like ‘confuses’ two weeks ago, the surface reading is improved but the word should really be ‘engineered’.

]]> By: Persephone http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/21/financial-times-12980-aardvark/#comment-64466 Persephone Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:58:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5131#comment-64466 Hello Gaufrid
I’m surprised at your comment about “pret” in 17 down – when working in London I get my lunch from Pret a Manger most days, so I think it’s pretty well known.
I have to confess to being a big fan of Aardvark and his alter ego Scorpion in the Indy, and his attempts to find new anagram indicators usually hit the mark for me. I’m happy with “engineers” – perhaps a bit less so with “when producing”, but the intention was fairly plain in both instances. And the Elgar clue made me smile!

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