Comments on: Financial Times 13,673 by Monk

By: Monk

Monk — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:39:01 +0000

Profuse apologies for the error at 1dn. The first iteration of this puzzle grid had NIBLICKS, clued as Writer covering thrashing by clubs (7), in which Chambers has the plural licks, n. = a thrashing. When changing the grid to the final version, NIBLICKS became NIBLICK and I simply pulled the above clue from the database, changed clubs to club, and carelessly assumed that I had a sound clue. [PeeDee: I hadn't seen the "special instructions" before today, so presume that the puzzle was deemed to be a little too hard for less-expert solvers, who would benefit from the hint.]

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:05:26 +0000

Thanks to Gaufrid and Andrew, the blog has been updated.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:58:56 +0000

It was a a Monk puzzle a couple of weeks ago that had the letters FT in every across answer, so this one’s “theme” was a bit tame in comparison. Remembering the previous one also made the hint a bit of a giveaway for me.

I agree with Gaufrid about U-BEND, and with PeeDee about the dubiousness of LICK=THRASHING – surely it would have to be “licking”.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:51:30 +0000

Thanks PeeDee

Swingers are people who have sex with multiple partners, so are “after the other”. I thought it was quite a funny clue.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:49:58 +0000

Hi PeeDee
You seem to have a slight problem with 8dn (no solution).

Regarding 14ac, ‘the other’ is a euphemism for sex and a SWINGER is ‘one after the other’, or as Chambers puts it “a person engaging freely in sexual activity, usu in groups (informal)”.

I had a different parsing for 19ac: N (note) in [g]U[npowder] BED (plot).