Comments on: FT 13,014 – Crux

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:52:15 +0000

Uncle Yap: you couldn’t be expected to know this but here in the UK we have a very long-running radio show called ‘The Archers’, in which the pub is ‘The Bull’, hence the capitals in the clue for 9ac.

By: Fletch

Fletch — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:08:42 +0000

28a: Some people have nut allergies which can prove fatal. In the UK many processed foods are labelled that they may contain traces of nut.

By: Uncle Yap

Uncle Yap — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:01:27 +0000

Rishi and Neil and Gaufrid

That is what I hate about the new-style FifteenSquared blog space. I cannot see sny “Save” button and for FT, I normally go in and edit and amend and change about 5 or 6 times BUT now I am never sure whether the changes I made would ever be saved.

“Help needed to parse 4A. 28A” was from my first draft and since then much water has flowed but the blog site still cannot reveal a visible “save” button for me to press whenever I make a change during the ten days between publication of the puzzle and publication of my blog.

Neil and Geoff, please fix the blog site so it is as friendly as the last time before we switched over to the “improved version” that never was

Half the time, I cannot read what I have written previously because some other thingee comes over and blocks off the right hand bit of my scripts.

By: C.G. Rishikesh

C.G. Rishikesh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:37:02 +0000

You have written: Help needed to parse 4A. 28A

But I think you subsequently understood and saw the beauty in 4A but failed to alter the above.

I saw your answer and then the clue in the puzzle. Just a few moments of thinking – actually rereading the clue – and I got it!

By: C.G. Rishikesh

C.G. Rishikesh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:28:10 +0000

16: TWILIGHT. I too like you was surprised when I stumbled upon the ‘dawn’ sense of this word in the same dictionary once long ago. In India people always use it to refer to the evening. I await comments from native speakers of the language.

By: C.G. Rishikesh

C.G. Rishikesh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:24:13 +0000

21d: I have seen invitations of people inviting friends to AT-HOME – which means a party.

A truly British practice/usage, I think.

The expression is not used in India but I knew it from my father’s books on English usage scattered around our house.

By: C.G. Rishikesh

C.G. Rishikesh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:19:54 +0000

28a: The packing material made of polysterene is called PEANUT. Another word for the same is 'pellet' (which could be lethal. All this seems to be rather tenuous and written in trying to worm into the compiler's mind.