Comments on: Financial Times 13,017 / Falcon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/05/financial-times-13017-falcon/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: C.G. Rishikesh http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/05/financial-times-13017-falcon/#comment-72502 C.G. Rishikesh Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:51:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6090#comment-72502 I too think the proverb is well-known. I don’t remember in which context but just a few days ago this came to my mind.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/05/financial-times-13017-falcon/#comment-72401 Eileen Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:47:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6090#comment-72401 Hi Gaufrid – thanks for the blog.

As you say, nothing too taxing. I think the ‘proverb’ [I'd call it more of a saying - it's not particularly profound] is reasonably well-known but I wasn’t very impressed by the clue. In a long answer like this, it’s usual to have some elaborate wordplay: to clue ‘handsome’ as ‘striking’ and then ‘good-looking’, with SAS already supplied, is rather weak, I thought.

However, there were some nice surfaces: 1, 28, 29ac, 16dn.

Just one more niggle, re 5ac: there are postgraduate students, too.

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