Comments on: Financial Times 13,591 / Bradman

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:55:17 +0000

And for a crossword that was as good as any Guardian puzzle could get!

By: shuchi

shuchi — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:04:27 +0000

Hi Gaufrid

Many apologies for not being able to post. I have been travelling in Rajasthan this week and had planned to solve and blog this from my hotel; I wasn’t prepared for no internet or phone connectivity over there. Thank you for filling in for me.

Great to see so many comments for an FT blog.

By: Lenny

Lenny — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:06:14 +0000

I failed to finish this in bed on Friday night but managed to complete it on Saturday PM. I was encouraged to see that people, including the Don, were still discussing it this afternoon. This was definitely very tough but one of the things that I have learned from Don’s previous comments on this site is that he does like to educate us so I took a punt on Cubeb and Tiercel on the grounds that they would be exactly the kind of word that he would include.
I particularly enjoyed Conjure and the French tierce (in another of its meanings) of A Bon Marche, Acute and Massif.

By: Rishi

Rishi — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:52:53 +0000

Yes, Bradman = Pasquale = Quixote = Giovarnni = Duck = Don Manley.

MikeC: Fixing a typo. In the above equation it must be Giovanni, as we can gather from a subsequent comment.

By: Bradman

Bradman — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:34:56 +0000

One person’s ‘obscurity’ is another person’s ‘what every schoolchild knows’ … My only promise is to clue fairly!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:49:39 +0000

Bradman @ 11

Many thanks for your encouragement but I don’t do either the Independent or the Telegraph.

However, I am fully prepared to take you off my Black List if you promise to be less prolific with Obscurities.

By: Bradman

Bradman — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:36:35 +0000

Oh dear, ‘Bryan’! Don’t give up on Quixote though — he’s about the easiest in Independent newspapers! And the Giovanni Telegraph Tougie is by no means the toughest either.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:31:15 +0000

Gaufrid @8

Many thanks for unmasking this setter’s other identities.

Having previously struggled in vain with Pasquale. I have now added these others to my Black List.

I shall know better in future.

By: Scarpia

Scarpia — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:36:20 +0000

Thanks Gaufrid.
I seem to enjoy the Don’s puzzles more and more as time goes on.I always like to learn new words or new definitions of familiar words and they are always fairly clued by this setter.
Agree with Eileen re 5 down,I also liked 4 across where the addition of ‘with bread’ to the clue made for extra difficulty.
Good stuff!

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:21:21 +0000

Hi MikeC
Yes, Bradman = Pasquale = Quixote = Giovarnni = Duck = Don Manley.