Comments on: Financial Times 13,581 / Cincinnus

By: MarcoPolo

MarcoPolo — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:17:36 +0000

Re 13d, is it not a dd SPEARHEAD = “lead (v)” and SPEARHEAD = “part of weapon, possibly iron”

By: Bradman

Bradman — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:02:05 +0000

Anyone done mine today (Friday)?

By: bamberger

bamberger — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:46:22 +0000

Surprisingly given the comments above,I finished this in a reasonable time. Must have had a going day helped by knowing beau nash, having seen trad in numerous xwords and doge having appeared in a FT crossword a few days before this one

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:59:49 +0000

John, while there will be the very odd exception, ‘unfinished’ generally indicates removal of just the last letter of a word as in ‘trade’ here. I enjoyed the puzzle which I found tricky enough.

By: John Newman

John Newman — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:21:27 +0000

I found it impossible to get the bottom left hand corner out. 16A I doubt that I would ever get. 13D and 17D I could not get because of my answer to 20 across. My answer is “Comp” which I think is a better answer for the clue (although obviously not what Cincinnus intended). Comp is unfinished company and comp is the act of accompanying along impromptu “in Jazz”.