Comments on: Financial Times 13,623 / Mudd http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/03/financial-times-13623-mudd/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 26 May 2013 08:34:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/03/financial-times-13623-mudd/#comment-152750 bamberger Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:28:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27084#comment-152750 I found this Mudd very hard as I did the previous weeks.
1a Never heard of this.
15a I must say that Seve hardly sprung to mind.
16a Another unheard of.
17a And another
27a Had heard of it but didn’t know its meaning
28 Good grief another unknown
2d Why does U=you, please?
14d case =valise is hard
17d Now I think this is phenominally hard to the point of being unfair. You have to get stupid=silly and animal=ram simultaneosuly out of all the possibilities for stupid and animal.
26d I will no doubt be told that he is very famous but I’ve never heard of him .

]]> By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/03/financial-times-13623-mudd/#comment-152708 Scarpia Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:32:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27084#comment-152708 Thanks Agentzero.
I seem to have lost my copy of the completed puzzle but I do remember thinking it was up to Mudd’s usual high standard.
Looking through your blog I remember 1 and 23 across and 17 down as being particular favourites.
Sil – KING TUT is a long accepted name for the boy king
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/tut/mysteries/
Also surprised you have not heard of Seve,you obviously agree with Mark Twain’s description of golf! :)

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/03/financial-times-13623-mudd/#comment-152620 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:26:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27084#comment-152620 Thanks Agentzero, for your fine blog.
I shared your reservations about LA being ‘Hollywood’ in an otherwise excellent puzzle by Mudd.

And did you say “I also enjoyed the humour in 21 down and 24 down”? Indeed, I had to think of his Alter Ego.

Not yet having 1d ánd 2d, 15ac was the one that held me up for a while.
What to do ????RED, when ???? must be ‘golfer’?
I tried ‘Lowe’, even ‘Shea’ – could both have given ‘cut’.
‘Shea’ was quickly ruled out as it appeared in 29ac, and after finding 1d (LACROSSE) I opted for ‘Seve’ as the golfer. Never heard of this person, though.

In 27ac’s TUTTI, you say TUT = old king. Why?
Short for Tutankhamun (or something like that)?. But he was a pharaoh, not exactly a king.
Or is it King Tut, a character from Batman (and a song by Steve Martin)?

Clue of the Day: 14d (TRIVIALISE) – great surface.

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