Comments on: Financial Times 13,520 / Armonie

By: Agentzero

Agentzero — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:48:43 +0000

Thanks, Walduck! I sat down a little while before the train left, so it was about 10 minutes total time. Rest assured that most of these puzzles take me longer than that!

By: Walduck

Walduck — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:13:27 +0000

Agentzero: if you finished this before the Harlem River on Metro North that is impressive indeed! I usually do (well, attempt) these on the 1 train from midtown, and even then I have usually barely dented it by the Harlem River!

By: Tony Welsh

Tony Welsh — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:08:48 +0000

I found it easier than usual today and, unlike Bamberger, Stendhal and astral were the first two I got! If you think Stendhal is obscure, surely wrasse is much more so. It had to be that, but I needed to check the dictionary. I too got Andante from the definition (and the letters I had) with absolutely no help from the rest of the clue, judoka not being in my dictionary.

By: bamberger

bamberger — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:17:55 +0000

Got the top half out but the bottom half was almost blank when I gave up.
30a I looked blankly at the answer and even after googling I was left thinking how obscure is that?
20d I was thinking of male names and reversing them so completely fooled by this one.
23d I may have heard of aral but it didn’t spring to mind.

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