Comments on: Financial Times 13,468 – Sleuth

By: Scarpia

Scarpia — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:14:50 +0000

Thanks smiffy and sorry to hear of your decalibrated Plimsoll line – sounds painful.
I found this easier than recent puzzles from Sleuth but an enjoyable solve nonetheless.
FIN meaning bill was new to me – American slang is not my strong point.
Top clues for me,1 and 6 down.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:19:32 +0000

I found this quite easy by FT standards, did have to think quite a bit about 22D, before coming to the same conclusion as you that it was DRIVE and a double definition. Esp liked CATERWAUL, KILVERT (was familiar with him all right so that may have helped), GALLERY, BREAKNECK.

By: smiffy

smiffy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:45:36 +0000

Thanks Rishi. In my defence, the tool-bar that contains the spell-check facility was mysteriously absent when I posted the blog, so I had to go through and manually scour the numerous original typos! Back in business now, thankfully.

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:22:27 +0000

smiffy
The typo in the answer to 16d needs to be fixed.