Comments on: Financial Times 13,368 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/05/06/financial-times-13368/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:12:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/05/06/financial-times-13368/#comment-108353 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 06 May 2010 20:55:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=17155#comment-108353 Thanks, Pete, for another excellent blog in a Lonely Place, I fear.
I am completely with you in your Pick of the Gems in the preamble – I would even like to add two more.
The ‘Prince of Zenda’ construction in 22ac (leading to HALF A DOZEN) is sheer brilliance, we thought.
And what a splendid surface in the NO-BRAINER of 8d.
Yes, there were – indeed – some fillers [or obvious ones], and yes, there isn’t any fiendishness or complex construction, and yes, the crossword isn’t very hard – all that is true, but solving a Cincinnus on a Sunday afternoon is always such a delight that our Lazy Sunday Afternoon turns into a Sunny Afternoon … :)

Ah, those Roaring Sixties.
Mellow Yellow Fellow (DONOVAN) is a bit obvious then, isn’t it/he?

The only critical remark we had was on the use of Land’s End (17ac). Fine device, but leading to a solution that contains the letters END. A pity.
[Btw, fun to see Mr Curl using the same device last Tuesday in the Guardian (Orlando 25,001)]

For us this was Cincinnus par excellence.

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