Comments on: Financial Times 13,391 / Viking

By: dreadnought

dreadnought — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:26:17 +0000

maybe the ‘middle of August’s’ is just middle of ‘Aug’ the standard abbreviation?

loved 28a! I wrote down ‘thermos’ and slowly added the other letters….

By: scarpia

scarpia — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:07:11 +0000

Thanks Shuchi.
Another very good puzzle from Viking.
Took me ages to work out ‘reduced’ – one of those where you know you’ve got the right answer but fail to twig the wordplay.The penny finally dropped whilst putting new sealant around the bath.
Might explain why I’m so crap at D.I Y.!

By: JamesM

JamesM — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:45:41 +0000

Thanks Shuchi for a superb blog of a not very easy puzzle.

I would mention that LAGOS is not the capital of Nigeria(Abuja is). I think the clue has to be read as “old capital city” and is therefore an &litt.

I also think that PURIM is close to out of bounds. It was not difficult to solve, but I had to verify it afterwards.

Good puzzle though.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:32:19 +0000

Yes, this was an excellent puzzle for the reasons you give – I made quite fast progress at first but it then took me ages to finish the SE corner. Favourite AS A MATTER OF FACT (excellent surface), also esp liked GONG, OPEN HOUSE, and BRIGAND.