Comments on: Financial Times 13,621 / Falcon

By: shuchi

shuchi — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:36:40 +0000

Thank you Falcon for clarifying; it was a really good puzzle other than that little slip.

By: Falcon

Falcon — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:47:32 +0000

28A was supposed to be ‘great beat’ but I typed in bait for beat. Apologies.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:08:16 +0000

Hi Sil

I’d like to end on a more positive note.

Your comment

“But even if this went wrong – and it did – there is still much to admire in Mr Scott’s clueing. I particularly liked the surfaces of 1ac, 21ac, 8d and the RUSSIAN ROULETTE of 5d.”

echoes my own at comment 2, but the other way round. I agreed with Shuchi that there were some fine clues and I agree with your choice, too [and would add 12ac.]
RUSSIAN ROULETTE features in a handful of clues on this site [not least in an Everyman [!] puzzle only last week:”You’ll need to get a round in before playing this dangerous game (7,8)”] and this one is as good as any.

I really did mean at comment 2 that it was a pity that one poor clue detracted from a good puzzle.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:14:13 +0000

Shuchi, while we are correcting errors, 9d is actually 8d and you meant to put (IN HOT)* rather than (IN NOT)*

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:07:55 +0000

But even if this went wrong – and it did – there is still much to admire in Mr Scott’s clueing.
I particularly liked the surfaces of 1ac, 21ac, 8d and the RUSSIAN ROULETTE of 5d.

This wasn’t a hard puzzle, but that’s not always what it’s all about.

There are moments that I think: let’s start a campaign, somewhere else at this site, to make all these enthusiastic Everyman admirers aware of the fact that his alter ego does produce crosswords of a similar difficulty ánd quality.
Maybe I am going to do it, this Sunday.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:13:52 +0000

Hi Steve

That makes sense.

I’ve been disappointed that there has been no feedback from setter or editor on this – a great idea that went sadly wrong.

[I think I might have gone for something along the lines of 'great feat', if I'd been clever enough to think of the device in the first place.]

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:58:22 +0000

Thanks shuchi – I wonder if 28a perhaps started life as ‘Great beat’ but somehow got misedited or misprinted along the way?

By: bamberger

bamberger — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:58:14 +0000

Couldn’t get 17d, 26 & 28a.
Neither sitar not gratis came to mind and while I noticed that great and bait rhymed, I’d never heard of eye rhyme.
Otherwise enjoyable.

By: Paulwaver

Paulwaver — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:20:20 +0000

Thanks scuchi, snuchi or schuchi

Fate possibly?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:51:08 +0000

Many thanks Schuchi

This was very enjoyable but EYE RHYME was my last entry, after I had discounted everything else.