Comments on: Financial Times 13,271 / Cinephile http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Benington http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99343 Benington Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:17:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99343 Finally got round to doing this – found it excellent.

14d was the only clue I didn’t get – never heard of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro or Giuseppe Balsamo!

]]> By: Benington http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99328 Benington Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:53:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99328 Thanks Gaufrid.

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99324 Gaufrid Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:43:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99324 Benington
The post was published just after 8am yesterday:

http://fifteensquared.net/2009/12/29/ft-13270-dante/

]]> By: Benington http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99322 Benington Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:35:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99322 Just a question regarding 13,270 by Dante – is the blog on this going to be published?

]]> By: jetdoc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99308 jetdoc Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:17:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99308 27a had me baffled, too, so thanks for that. I assumed that ‘carter’ was someone who draws a cart, but now see from Chambers that the drawer of the cart is the animal or motorised device that pulls it; so maybe Gaufrid’s explanation is the correct one.

I spotted the theme once I got WASHINGTON and EISENHOWER, but found this pretty tough by FT standards. I had to ‘cheat’ to get 14d, as I had never heard of Cagliostro, though I had all the letters for the anagram.

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99288 Gaufrid Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:17:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99288 Hi Andrew
I considered the same option as you for 1ac but Chambers give ‘carter’ as “a person who drives a cart” rather than one who pulls or draws it. I therefore looked for an alternative.

Thanks for the explanation of 27ac. It’s obvious when you see the answer!

13ac didn’t have an asterisk (though it could have done) because the clue included a definition. I assume Cinephile chose not to make this one thematic so that he could use ‘fellow’s workplace’ both here and in 21ac.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99286 Andrew Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:08:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99286 Incidentally, shouldn’t 13ac have had an asterisk too?

]]> By: Andrew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99285 Andrew Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:06:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99285 Thanks Gaufrid. I thought the “drawer” in 1ac was just one who draws (i.e. pulls) a cart. I was about to say “like you I’m baffled by GRANT”, but I’ve just realised it’s MIGRANT less M1. Phew!

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99264 Gaufrid Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:32:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99264 Thanks Eileen. I had forgotten all about Nixon’s successor.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/12/30/financial-times-13271-cinephile/#comment-99263 Eileen Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:14:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=13703#comment-99263 Thanks, Gaufrid – yes, quite tough-going.

18dn is a clue to the theme: {Gerald] Ford is a possible solution.

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