Comments on: Financial Times 12,992 / Io http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/04/financial-times-12992-io/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/04/financial-times-12992-io/#comment-66680 Gaufrid Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:37:42 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5440#comment-66680 Hi Eileen
You must have been quick off the mark today because I realised the parsing of 22/23 as soon as I checked the blog after it had been published and immediately edited that which I had originally written.

I agree re 17d. I am sorry to say that I noted don=fellow when I originally solved the clue but then forgot to follow it up when I later wrote the blog. Usually I mark the clues that I need to return to for further consideration but for some reason I didn’t today.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/04/financial-times-12992-io/#comment-66678 Eileen Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:31:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5440#comment-66678 I forgot to say:

1ac: Popish = ‘such as John’, the most recent Pope, chosen as an example, presumably, because of the connection to ‘chamberpot’. ‘Pish’, as you say, is an expression of impatience and so = ‘I am impatient’. [cf 'coo', 'cor', 'my, = 'I am surprised', all of which I've seen in crosswords recently.]

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/04/financial-times-12992-io/#comment-66677 Eileen Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:18:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5440#comment-66677 Hi Gaufrid

Sorry about the toothache.

17dn I think is OF FAN DON – or perhaps you’ve already implied that?

22,23 [I don't like this] could be A BIT [somewhat] in FLEE [leave]. [Chambers has 'soothe' = 'gloss over' - but I don't expect you to like it, either.]

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