Comments on: Financial Times 12,972 – Mudd http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/22/financial-times-12972-mudd/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 00:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John in USA http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/22/financial-times-12972-mudd/#comment-67700 John in USA Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:30:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4979#comment-67700 I quickly solved 6 down as ALGORITHM then couldn’t finish the puzzle. Aside from that problem, my answer did fit!

]]> By: smutchin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/22/financial-times-12972-mudd/#comment-64620 smutchin Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:06:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4979#comment-64620 The excruciating puns and fiendishly cryptic definitions made this one quite tricky for me (I found the Saturday Cincinnus easier), but what I managed to complete of it, I found enjoyable – including 5a, which I agree is a top clue.

I also agree that “opera singer” is a strange definition for Isolde but it makes a kind of sense if you consider that characters in operas do tend to express themselves in the form of song.

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