Comments on: Financial Times 13,550 / Armonie

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:53:29 +0000

you also peg out to win at the card game crib(bage)

By: Mark Allen

Mark Allen — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:25:12 +0000

Tony Welsh,

The game is croquet.

By: scarpia

scarpia — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:15:43 +0000

Thanks Gaufrid.
Straightforward stuff from Armonie with APHORISM being the pick for me.
Tony @3 – Croquet http://www.sportsdefinitions.com/croquet/Peg-out.html

By: Tony Welsh

Tony Welsh — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:16:05 +0000

I found this harder than usual. Did not solve 8 of them. Had no idea about pegged out. What game?

Got Odessa but it took a while because I was hung up on “LAY” backwards being part of “YALTA”.

By: mike04

mike04 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:55:06 +0000

Thanks for stepping in, Gaufrid.

This was fairly easy today, but I stumbled at 13ac. I often panic when an agent-noun crops up.
With two of them in the same clue, this should’ve been straightforward. Trying to hurry though,
I bungled it and went for -OR instead of -ER.

I’ve read Fowler’s Modern English Usage on the subject – but I still seem to make mistakes.
I’d be interested to know how others cope with this!

By: bamberger

bamberger — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:12:53 +0000

LHS fully completed but RHS sadly lacking. Geeting 6d & 29a would have helped. It is not the first time that I’ve been caught out by “en” (17d).

Quite enjoyable but don’t clues like 5a. If you know Ukranian ports, you write the answer in, if you don’t , as ode=lay (not obvious to me), you google it.