http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/11/26/financial-times-13553-falcon/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 15:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/11/26/financial-times-13553-falcon/#comment-131718 bamberger Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:35:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=23261#comment-131718 With some crosswords I write in half the answers and then come to a grinding halt. With this one I wondered if I was going to face the shame of not even being to start. Failing to get any of the acrosses in the first pass, I eventually opened with 8d and somehow I just got going. In the end couldn’t get 14a,28a, the second part of 3d, 5d & 26d.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/11/26/financial-times-13553-falcon/#comment-131711 Gaufrid Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:50:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=23261#comment-131711 Hi Lenny
I initially thought as you did about split words and YEOMAN. However, ‘Yeo’ is in Chambers as a valid abbreviation for ‘Yeomanry’ so I don’t think there is a problem here.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/11/26/financial-times-13553-falcon/#comment-131710 Lenny Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:38:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=23261#comment-131710 Thanks Shuchi. This was a very quick solve for me despite having to guess Mai Tai. I do know a restaurant called My Thai but I never realised that it was a play on words. I had also repressed all memory of the terrible Bing Crosby song but the answer could not be anything else.
I always thought that there was a convention that, if a word was split over two answers, each part should be a word in itself. Yeoman is the second example I have seen in a week where that rule has been broken. Perhaps I made the rule up.

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