Comments on: Financial Times 13,275 / Jason

By: JB

JB — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:14:58 +0000

or is it its.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:13:40 +0000

Thanks Agentzero. Obvious really – but it niggled because I was obsessed with it’s being plural…..

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:54:00 +0000

Hi Agentzero
Chambers also has “to place (eg in confidence) in a person or thing” but then follows on with the definitions I quoted before.

By: Agentzero

Agentzero — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:23:12 +0000

Hi Gaufrid

Then Chambers stands alone, as far as I can tell. For example, Collins has “to put (trust or confidence) in a person or thing.” COED has “place (something, especially one’s confidence or trust) in.” The parentheses indicate that “confidence” or “trust” must be supplied and are not encompassed by the word “repose” itself. I think “reposed my trust,” rather than a tautology, is standard usage and it is supported by these two. I know, I know: if a dictionary says it, a setter is entitled to rely on it, but sometimes a dictionary is simply wrong.

JB, COED has as a definition “an article consisting of two joined or corresponding parts.” For example, a pair of glasses or a pair of scissors.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:23:08 +0000

Small query: why is PAIR an article?

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:42:07 +0000

Hi Agentzero
For ‘repose’ Chambers has as a definition “to place in trust” and “place one’s trust” so surely ‘reposed my trust’ would be tautology.

By: Agentzero

Agentzero — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:30:48 +0000

Thanks Rishi, I think you have it. Now I think it’s quite a clever clue.

Smiffy, I think the phrase is always “I reposed my trust in him.” You wouldn’t simply say “I reposed in him.” Thus, the word “repose” by itself (which is the word that needs to be defined in the clue) means “place” and not “place trust in.”

By: smiffy

smiffy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:21:49 +0000

Agreed about it beinng a mixed bag. As the outliers, 3D struck me as a very neat (albeit easy) surface and execution; on the other hand, its symmetric partner at 16D is plain ugly on a number of levels.

I beg to differ with the query at 24D, as I’ve certainly seen repose used in the sense of “placing trust in” before.

Best wishes to all in 2010!

By: Rishi

Rishi — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:43:25 +0000

I had also wondered how 26d worked when I solved it idly (without entering any word in the grid).

Only now after I saw your query and again looked at the clue in the pdf did it dawn on me.

“C or K” is another way of saying “either end of CandlesticK”.

No container/contained.