Comments on: Financial Times 13,572 by Mudd http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/30/financial-times-13572-by-mudd/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/30/financial-times-13572-by-mudd/#comment-145076 Jan Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:04:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24536#comment-145076 Thanks, Pete and Mudd, a very enjoyable puzzle. My notes include the words, ‘very subdued and straightforward for Mudd – lovely surface readings’.

11 was one of my favourites. In working it out I came across, Notus (Latin) for the south wind, (Notos in Greek). A similar reference to Obama would give, not only, ‘not US’, but also, ‘not us’.

]]> By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/30/financial-times-13572-by-mudd/#comment-144955 Pete Maclean Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:05:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24536#comment-144955 Sil, Thanks for your corrections. 9ac was a mistake in writing up the explanation while 14ac I parsed wrongly.

]]> By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/30/financial-times-13572-by-mudd/#comment-144954 Pete Maclean Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:59:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24536#comment-144954 Bamberger, 11d took me a good time as well. Like you I resorted to a solver but then, for me, NOUS jumped out.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/30/financial-times-13572-by-mudd/#comment-144943 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:54:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24536#comment-144943 Another good puzzle by Mr H.
Some really original clueing here, like in 10ac (with the ‘amending’ bit), 13ac (the reversed homophone), 8d (REINDEER) and also 11d’s NOUS.

Thanks, Pete, for your blog.
But I think you missed an O in 9ac (ATOM BOMB).
That O must come from ‘old’, so therefore “MB (doctor) visiting A TOMB O (a grave, old)” can only be seen as “A TOMB O + MB”, so nót an insertion of MB.

In my notes I put a question mark to 14ac (EGRESS).
I read it as EGRES (reversal of ‘serge’) + [fabric]S, but was slightly puzzled by ‘on the way out’ as the definition.
EGRESS is either a verb or a noun, in which case ‘the way out’ cóuld be the definition. But then, what about ‘on’?
Mudd is a very precise setter (and there is no question mark at the end of the clue, too), so I think there must be more to it.
Maybe ‘on’ is part of the “+S” bit: EGRES with S (ultimate in fabrics) attached to it [=on]?

Apart from this an enjoyable crossword which wasn’t the easiest of Mudds [which is good].

]]> By: bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/30/financial-times-13572-by-mudd/#comment-144934 bamberger Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:24:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24536#comment-144934 Failed on 11d . Stared at ?o?s for ages. Tried solvers but couldn’t spot it. If “nous” appeared , I probably saw it as the French “we”.

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