Comments on: Financial Times 13,537 – Dante http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/11/18/financial-times-13537-dante/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/11/18/financial-times-13537-dante/#comment-129987 Sil van den Hoek Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:27:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=22887#comment-129987 On a Rufusless Monday his alter ego Dante was most welcome.
Effortless clueing which indeed didn’t overtax my brain cells, but it was elegant as ever.

Only one clue did stump me.
I hád DAIS at 20d, but didn’t understand why (apart from DAIS being a ‘platform’). I thought “is said to be” pointed in the direction of a homophone for “unstable” – and I couldn’t get rid of that idea. But it was just “unstable” as an anagrind for “said”.
Looking at it like this, it’s a simple but very clever (because potentially misdirecting) clue.

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