Comments on: Financial Times 13,636 / Jason http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/08/financial-times-13636-jason/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:59:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/08/financial-times-13636-jason/#comment-153308 Scarpia Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:32:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27255#comment-153308 Thanks Agentzero.
Nice puzzle from Jason,not too difficult but plenty of amusing clues.Some good anagrams and the cheeky 20 across,which I read the same way as smiffy.
27 across didn’t quite work for me but was easily gettable.
Second use of APP in as many days.

]]> By: kobeltboy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/08/financial-times-13636-jason/#comment-153263 kobeltboy Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:49:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27255#comment-153263 Excellent stuff. Just the thing to avoid having to go home on a Tuesday evening. Another grey hair for campanula.

]]> By: bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/08/financial-times-13636-jason/#comment-153258 bamberger Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:11:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27255#comment-153258 Don’t recall doing a Jason before. Solved most without aids but needed it for Campanula and couldn’t get swarm.

Thanks for the blog

]]> By: walruss http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/08/financial-times-13636-jason/#comment-153255 walruss Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:20:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27255#comment-153255 Indeed a very good runout from Jason, Smiffy, and you pick the tricks I myself enjoyed. How nice ‘on the matter of education’ is!!

]]> By: smiffy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/08/financial-times-13636-jason/#comment-153251 smiffy Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:35:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27255#comment-153251 I thought this was a ripsnorter of a puzzle. Plenty of neat twists, and deft exploitation of ambiguous phrase (e.g. ‘Bass’, ‘one such’, ‘not in uniform’). And, of course, bonus style points for resurrecting Olly Reed; I imagine that he’d appreciate being pegged alongside Mr Reaper in the bottom row!

20A’s lustiness is a reference to the priapic phrase “here’s lead in your pencil”.
24A, 1D and 13D (although, I quail at attributing phone apps uniquely to Apple!) also raised a smile.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/08/financial-times-13636-jason/#comment-153238 Bryan Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:16:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27255#comment-153238 Many thanks Agentzero I found this very enjoyable.

Well done, Jason. More of the same please!

]]> By: Rishi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/08/financial-times-13636-jason/#comment-153229 Rishi Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:44:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27255#comment-153229 Agent0: Re the slang terms in 8 and 23d: I don’t think any of these would have posed a problem to solvers in India. Non-native speakers of English pick up these when reading crime novels or tackling UK/US crosswords regularly.

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