Comments on: Financial Times 13,594 / Jason

By: Scarpia

Scarpia — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:52:04 +0000

Thanks Agentzero.
Enjoyable puzzle with nothing controversial.Totally agree,1 down and 13 across were the outstanding clues.
Also liked 21 across.
Has anyone else noticed that when a setter uses fruit in a clue it usually refers to the plural?
Bryan @3 – nice one!

By: bamberger

bamberger — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:53:57 +0000

Got about half out when my alloted hour was up. I agree with Tony about the French phrase. Looked at ?o?t and the remaining letters I had and tout never came to mind.

I have decided that if I need (say)a “c” for the wordplay to work and there is word that begins with c somewhere in the clue, that will be it on the grounds that no matter how unlikely, it will have c as an abbreviation in some dictionary.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:06:42 +0000

Tony
O is an abbreviation for over or overs (cricket) and T is an abbreviation for Troy (weight), both are in Chambers (and elsewhere).

By: Tony Welsh

Tony Welsh — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:42:41 +0000

Tout ensemble was my last one too, Bryan. That’s the second time we lately that we have had a French phrase; not sure that should be allowed, though my Chambers’s says it is in more or less common use (in English I assume they mean!) and I suppose that is the acid test.

23d bothers me as well. We have had this discussion before, but what exactly legitimizes abbreviating o(ver) and T(roy)?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:59:53 +0000

Oh yes and STEAK TARTARE was another!

Which reminds me that I once visited Paris with an English colleague who tried to order Steak Tartare – Well Done.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:57:20 +0000

Many thanks Agentzero

This was very enjoyable with TOUT ENSEMBLE my last entry.

As Jason was the setter, I anticipated the possibility of a few Greek words but never French.

Oh la la!

By: Uncle Yap

Uncle Yap — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:21:15 +0000

Very smooth like the 15 year old Dimple I had while solving this. My COD, the &lit 1Down but the other clues were just as well-crafted. Thank you, Jason and AgentZero (when are you getting your double zero so you will be licensed to kill?)