Comments on: Financial Times 13,450 – Falconry http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:06:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115560 Scarpia Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:49:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115560 Thanks smiffy.
Agree with your comment @8,I thought the clue didn’t quite work,but,thanks Falcon,I now see it’s only my brain not quite working,the clue is spot on.
Thanks rrc for the info on the musical in 4 down,must admit to my ignorance here as well.Somehow the 15 performances in 1937 must have passed me by. :)
Nevertheless I did enjoy the puzzle,favourite clues being the anagram at 11 across and 26 across.

BTW smiffy,love the cruciverbial ark!

]]> By: smiffy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115552 smiffy Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:53:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115552 Yes – sincere thanks to Falcon for swooping by in person to demystify matters. I think the subtlety of 29A may have been a case of “pearls before swine”.

]]> By: irm http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115544 irm Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:43:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115544 Just for a change I managed this one quite quickly and no problem with any clues.

Good to see the setter commenting.

]]> By: Conrad Cork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115543 Conrad Cork Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:16:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115543 Falcon,thank you. Did anyone ever say you were more devious than the average bear (or raptor)?

]]> By: Falcon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115542 Falcon Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:09:55 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115542 re comment 2
Bill as in programme of entertainment
COME TO A HEAD – wake = come to, up = ahead

]]> By: rrc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115539 rrc Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:42:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115539 and pretty obscure if wiki is right

Sea Legs is an American musical with music by Michael H. Cleary and lyrics by Arthur Swanstrom. The musical book by Swanstrom is based on the play The Cat Came Back by Laurence E. Johnson, Beula King, and Avery Hopwood. Produced by Albert Bannister and J. Edmund Byrne, the production opened on Broadway at the Mansfield Theatre where it ran from May 18, 1937 through May 29, 1937 for a total of 15 performances.

]]> By: Falcon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115538 Falcon Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:40:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115538 Assume you are referring to 4d.
The solution, SEA LEGS, is a musical
(se-a + L-e + G&S)

]]> By: Conrad Cork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115537 Conrad Cork Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:38:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115537 Sorry but I don’t get line-up as ‘bill’ though it is obviously an identity parade.

Similarly I don’t get ‘come to a head’ as meaning’wake up’.

Probably me but any ideas appreciated.

And ‘sea legs’ as ‘musical’. What is that about? The word play gives sea legs, for sure, but after that…….????

I never like entering answers where I haven’t completely grasped what the compiler is on about.

]]> By: rrc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/07/29/financial-times-13450-falconry/#comment-115535 rrc Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:33:05 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19532#comment-115535 Straight forward except for 5d if musical is anagram indication then there is no definiton

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