Comments on: Financial Times 13,457 / Styx http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/08/06/financial-times-13457-styx/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/08/06/financial-times-13457-styx/#comment-116458 Scarpia Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:23:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19720#comment-116458 Thsnks shuchi.
Thought this was going to be easy – got off to a flying start then stalled with about a third of the puzzle left.Some clever misdirections held me up,nothing unfair,I thought all the clues were sound.
I agree with your misgivings re.PAINTER,but I think the definition is close enough not to cause any solver too much bother.
Favourite clues 19 across and 4 and 24 down.

]]> By: shuchi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/08/06/financial-times-13457-styx/#comment-116434 shuchi Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:43:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19720#comment-116434 Hi Sil van den Hoek

I found the east side of the grid harder to finish, too. FEUD and PACIFIER were among my last entries.

Have included the bits I’d missed out while typing, thank you.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/08/06/financial-times-13457-styx/#comment-116421 Sil van den Hoek Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:18:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=19720#comment-116421 Although some easy clues like RATE, TIRING OUT, CAME UP and INDONESIAN helped me to make a quick start, it wasn’t that easy at all to get this puzzle finished.
Actually, I failed to get FEUD [in the - more or less - SE part that caused me some virtual headache (whatever that is)].

Initially, I just kept on solving this crossword because I’d started it – there wasn’t a click otherwise.
However, as I went on [ánd looking back at it], I have to say that the clueing is indeed – as you say, shuchi – very clean.
I particularly liked the surfaces of NIECE (25ac), DECREE (12ac) with the ambiguous use of ‘contract’, and CLOSED SHOP (4d) where we have to split ‘meat’/'factory’.

I hadn’t seen ‘contaminated’ before as an anagrind, but it’s perfectly alright of course.
Just like you I needed most of the crossing letters for SHEEPSHEARER (8d), which held me up anyway because I thought it needed a hyphen.

The only one I wasn’t very keen on was INDONESIAN (14ac).
In your blog you forgot the S as it should be ONE’S inside INDIAN. I didn’t like ONE’S for ‘one is’, because both letters I and S are present in the answer (even next to each other) – I found this a bit unnecessarily misleading.

Finally, shuchi, you forgot in your otherwise much-appreciated blog, in 7d (SCOURGE) the URGE bit.

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