Comments on: Financial Times 13,644 / Orense http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/17/financial-times-13644-orense/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 15:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/17/financial-times-13644-orense/#comment-154357 Scarpia Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:23:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27521#comment-154357 Thanks smiffy.
I agree with gnomethang,a pretty good puzzle I thought with most of the acrosses and a few of the downs having a culinary theme.

]]> By: Lenny http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/17/financial-times-13644-orense/#comment-154302 Lenny Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:35:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27521#comment-154302 I sympathise with Bamburger. The Catholic church is so secretive that you are not supposed to know the names of its courts. I resigned in 1963 but I was just about able to recall the word Curia. In fact, I was puzzled by a similar clue in Monday’s Times. I was trying to squeeze Curia into a 4-letter answer when it should have been Rota, a Catholic tribunal that I had never heard of.

]]> By: gnomethang http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/17/financial-times-13644-orense/#comment-154293 gnomethang Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:19:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27521#comment-154293 I enjoyed this culinary feast and certainly can’t seee why it was lame. CURIA turns up a fair bit in puzzles.

]]> By: walruss http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/17/financial-times-13644-orense/#comment-154273 walruss Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:22:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27521#comment-154273 ‘Dish’ is surely used in the archaic sense of ruin, but it is post-positional. That makes it harder to justify for me! And what a lame puzzle really.

]]> By: bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/17/financial-times-13644-orense/#comment-154269 bamberger Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:25:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27521#comment-154269 Failed on:
1d I knew what I was looking for but even with c?r?a I hadn’t come across curia.
15d & 19d . This was not helped by an inability to spell mascarpone. First I had marsrapone but realised breakfast wouldn’t fit-so thought mascaprone was correct.
26a Just couldn’t get it.

]]> By: Rishi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/17/financial-times-13644-orense/#comment-154221 Rishi Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:36:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27521#comment-154221 smiffy

Re 16a: ‘Dish’ (v.) has the sense of ‘to outwit’, ‘to ruin’ (Chambers). Besides, Chambers Crossword Dictionary lists it under anagram indicators. So we may regard it as an acceptable AInd.

However, in the clue cited, it is not used as a verb and so that might be a problem.

Besides, is ‘tripe’ an adjective? Is ‘tripe dish’ idiomatic?

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