Comments on: Financial Times 13,279 by Mudd

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:52:51 +0000

I found this puzzle rather fun, a few lol (laugh ot loud – moments, if thats what lol means?

Thanks for the blog as usual Sir.

I agree with Sil van den Hoek, liked 4dn, quite amusing I thought. For me this was one of
the top end Mudd crosswords.

14ac was brilliant, I think ‘ones arm kept’ was an indicator to tell you that ‘ones’ literary needed to be kept in the finished solution – for ‘up ones sleeve’.

Good stuff here, a great puzzle to solve.

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:32:14 +0000

Hi Richard, Thanks for your comments.

15d was clever. Took me a while to get CAN = loo. KALI was a giveaway though for me. Once you have seen a picture of Kali with her necklace of skulls, you are unlikely to forget her!

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:31:09 +0000

Thanks, Pete.
I got all except 15d – I’d never have got CAN = Loo and I’ve never heard of KALI.
I really liked the cha;;enge of the other clues. though.

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:11:14 +0000

Ah, I “see”. Thanks, Sil.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:21:41 +0000

Hi Pete,
Ely is a “see” (the seat within a bishop’s diocese where his cathedral is located).
That word is placed on “the”, hence “seethe” (boil).
Good Mudd crossword.
And fun to see that you fell for these typical Halpern clues like 23ac (with a bottom)
and 15d (with a loo) …
There was one more, the hilarious 4d! [splendid anagram]