Comments on: Financial Times 13,382 / Hamilton

By: scarpia

scarpia — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:45:36 +0000

A pretty good puzzle all in all – except 13 across!
23 down is similar in style to some of Araucaria’s clues,which makes it o.k. in my book.
Particularly liked ‘innkeeper’.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:48:04 +0000

Not too difficult a puzzle, I liked PASSES a lot and OCCUR, as you say, was esp good too.

By: Agentzero

Agentzero — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:37:07 +0000

Hamilton,

Thanks for stopping by!

I understood that you were using “good” as a noun, in the sense of “virtue,” but “honesty” is still not a definition of it, but rather an example of it. If the solution were “dog,” you wouldn’t define it as “Pekinese.” You’d have to say something like “Pekinese, for example.”

Regarding 23 down, I think solvers would expect something like “larger part” to signal a set of consecutive letters from the fodder.

By: Pogel

Pogel — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:04:38 +0000

22ac: got distracted by Harry Potter (which I’ve never read) – in the back of my mind I had muggle down as some human/non-human crossbreed. In Chambers too! The horse bit confused me…

By: Hamilton

Hamilton — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:07:58 +0000

Hi Agentzero – many thanks for the blog. In my defence(!):
1across – I used good as a noun, in the sense of “he was a force for good”, which is ok by my thesaurus!
13across – listen to (hear out) the sound of slaughter (hear rout). Not the best homophone in the world. I accept!
23 down – Ferret is right – “umbrella” was my sunshade
I accept some clues are a bit wordy (something Gaufrid alluded to last time) – I guess it’s my way of trying to achieve a good surface, but I’m working on it!

By: Ferret

Ferret — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:57:21 +0000

I went for umbra being a large part of umbrella, which can be a sunshade?

Never heard of Anthony Sher?