Comments on: Financial Times 13,285 by Cincinnus http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/01/28/financial-times-13285-by-cincinnus/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 04:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/01/28/financial-times-13285-by-cincinnus/#comment-101113 Pete Maclean Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:05:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=14521#comment-101113 >> We got there in the end with NAEVI, but found VI a bit of an
>> unusual girl – probably it is short for Vivian?

Could be but I think it is more likely to be Violet.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/01/28/financial-times-13285-by-cincinnus/#comment-101109 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:38:53 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=14521#comment-101109 As always a very good (and precise) offering from Cincinnus, one of the Masters of Beautiful Surface Reading.
He puts so much thought in it (we think), like e.g. in 10ac (HEAVEN CAN WAIT) where the anagram itself is film-related too.
Or in 5d: the combination Dances + W(olves).
Another favourite indeed, Pete, the splendid 21d (FRIEND).
Inventive to clue TR as a ‘a pair of trousers’ (in 23d).
Fine anagrind in 1ac (reformation) in a Church-like environment.
And perhaps, best of all, 16d (COLLAPSE) – good surface, wrong-footing and very apt reversal indicator showing the quality of this setter.

We didn’t find this crossword harder than on other occasions, but did go wrong in the SW part of the grid.
We initially had ‘detoriating’ for 1d – and why not?
Only 24ac wasn’t solvable then.
We got there in the end with NAEVI, but found VI a bit of an unusual girl – probably it is short for Vivian?

In short, excellent crossowrd!

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