Comments on: Financial Times 13,465 – Dante

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:16:00 +0000

I don’t think it is such a lonely place. I visit very often but I am usually too embarrassed to add to the thread so long after the event. I am sure that there are many others who feel likewise.

Thank you, Uncle Yap, and all other bloggers, for your contributions.

Thank you, Dante, this was a delightful puzzle and 22 gave me the best laugh in ages.

By: Uncle Yap

Uncle Yap — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:36:00 +0000

sdvh, how true

the ft hosts many very good puzzles but bloggingly, there seems to be very little interest. Maybe, the FT crossword editor should let his clients (I used to be one when I was training to be a Chartered Accountant in UK, many decades ago) know about this site.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:00:07 +0000

Thank you, Uncle Yap, for your immaculate blog in this – as I said several times before – lonely place.

Another amusing puzzle by Dante, which came to an end with the fabulous EIDER (22d).
Until today I didn’t understand PENDULUM (16ac), but after seeing the blog, I must say: this is just as hilarious as 22d.

Other highlights for me: FOYER (13ac) with its completely natural surface, 3d (CATHEDRAL) – again, beautiful surface [even though some might argue that a church is not a cathedral] and (oh, dear me) two cd’s: 26ac (ORATOR) and 2d (REMARRY).

And though I remember having seen a similar way of clueing CHAIR in a recent Rufus puzzle [I think, as part of Chairman], I can only conclude that this was Dante on top form.