Comments on: Financial Times 13,369 – Mudd http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/05/06/financial-times-13369-mudd/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 10:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/05/06/financial-times-13369-mudd/#comment-108354 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 06 May 2010 21:11:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=16947#comment-108354 Thanks, Uncle Yap, for blogging another Mudd.
Immaculately clued crossword, yet on a different level than his Guardian ones.
Even so, I’m glad (??) to see that his ‘smutty’ clues [as people use to call them] do creep in here as well.
What about 26ac (TRENDY) with the inescapable ‘bottom’, or 6d (CANDLELIT) in which the innocent solution is clued with all kinds of nuts?

(More) Highlights for me: the splendid surfaces of 5ac (OCELOT) and 2d (UNDEMONSTRATIVE), plus the witty 19d (WAGE).

But Clue of the Day: LEG BEFORE WICKET (7d).
I don’t know anything about cricket [and I don't wánt to know], but the clue is very clever, because – even though it’s more or less clear that it is an anagram – it is nót instantly clear what the anagrind is – Feeble? Blown Off? Off?
So, clearly my Clue of the Day.
[if only Mudd/Paul would reanimate his Clue of the Week .... :( ]

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