Comments on: Financial Times 13,674 / Bradman

By: MarcoPolo

MarcoPolo — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:53:06 +0000

Did anyone else notice that this puzzle was pangrammatic (had all the letters of the alphabet)?

(Which actually helped me when I was left with the “Y” and 10d)

An enjoyable solve…

By: Bradman

Bradman — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:54:22 +0000

No apology needed, I can assure you!

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:18:40 +0000

Sorry Bradman, I should have looked at it for longer. The padding is more than legitimate; I was misparsing. I was only a little perplexed but thanks for putting me straight. I did get the answer right though!

By: Bradman

Bradman — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:00:27 +0000

Dine is going to Sar(k) — legitimate padding grammatically sound which serves to give a surface meaning of a holiday maker going to an island mostly eating fish. The alternative Island in the channel — mostly eat fish would have been OK but a tad more disjointed. Sorry if that doesn’t convince you. Anyway it could hardly be a typo!

No more to say except thanks for the blog

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:22:20 +0000

I’m just a little perplexed by 23a. The full clue is:

Going to island in the channel mostly eat fish (7)

I don’t see what “going to” is there for – it isn’t needed for the wordplay, is it? And more strangely, it doesn’t seem to do anything for the surface either. In fact I don’t really see what the surface means. I wonder if it’s a typo or something.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:06:28 +0000

Thanks Smiffy. The usual good stuff from Bradman.

> Apollo 11 is one of my favourite films.
I think you mean Apollo 13…