Comments on: Financial Times 12997 / Armonie http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/10/financial-times-12997-armonie/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Smutchin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/10/financial-times-12997-armonie/#comment-67741 Smutchin Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:30:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5529#comment-67741 Really enjoyed this one in the same way as I enjoyed yesterday’s Rufus – not difficult but some utterly charming examples of the art of clue writing – notably 9a, 22a, 24a, 5d, 18d. All very neat and concise.

Rishi – thanks for the blog – detailed and thorough as usual, sorry it will be one of your last. On the subject of adjacent anagrams, I think it’s OK since the two across clues provide checking letters for different down clues. I think the idea of that injunction is that since anagrams are the “easiest” clue type, to ensure crossing words aren’t rendered too easy to solve. Does that make sense?

]]> By: seeword http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/10/financial-times-12997-armonie/#comment-67677 seeword Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:06:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5529#comment-67677 Oops, sorry…I had antenna in the wrong place.

]]> By: seeword http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/10/financial-times-12997-armonie/#comment-67675 seeword Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:00:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5529#comment-67675 How can antenna (20 down) cross with nursery (27 across)?

]]> By: Persephone http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/10/financial-times-12997-armonie/#comment-67636 Persephone Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:26:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5529#comment-67636 Hello
5a is COPING (dd)
26a is BARELY (bank (on) = rely)
5d is CREATE (e inside crate)
18d – Etna (the volcano) is the “smoker”
21d is TIDDLY (ld reversed inside tidy)
Your point on consecutive anagrams (11a, 12a) is a good one; for my part I would be more concerned if there were too many rather than where they actually came in the grid.

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