Comments on: Financial Times 13,525 – Dante

By: bamberger

bamberger — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:08:10 +0000

Someone advised that the FT site had put up the correct version and this goes down as my first ever unaided FT crossword solve.
Took an eternity to get 7d

By: Tony Welsh

Tony Welsh — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:26:06 +0000

I had no trouble fixing the grid and completing the puzzle, but where is today’s answer (13534)? I have done it all except 22a but am also curious to understand the word play for 27a which I assume is “gees”.

By: Uncle Yap

Uncle Yap — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:31:29 +0000

Richard, you are right, it is a dd … oops

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:51:13 +0000

Isn’t 16a a dd rather than a cd?

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:34:53 +0000

Thanks UY for the blog of another Dante.

I have the puzzle here right in front of me, so I see that I put five ?’s.
The ones at RECORD and BETRAYAL are not that relevant anymore, although I agree with you that BET for ‘woman’ is not that great.
TAIL PIECE (18d) defined by ‘final news item’ was another question mark.
As was ‘Nut or nuts’ for ECCENTRIC – don’t tell me that it’s just about a noun versus an adjective. Ah well, you did. Very poor, if this is what it is.
Question mark #5 was for 19d – I think a feeble cd.

But then – it is Dante, and so there are some fantastic clues, too.
What a beautiful surface and imagery in OMNIBUS (20d).
Winner #2 : 26ac (TERRAPIN) with its fine surface.

But surely the Clue of the Day:
MANAGED (15d) “Controlled game and set”.
…and Match !!