Comments on: Financial Times 13683 Jason

By: bamberger

bamberger — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:00:57 +0000

Thanks Scchua – that clue seems rather convoluted compared to the rest -not surprised it was your last in.

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:54:26 +0000

Hi bamberger. 13A was my last one in, and was the hardest for me to blog. The parts of the clue are firstly: “mate?” which was the wordplay; and secondly: “we get on with this” with the definition being that “this” and the emphasis on “we”. The answer to that definition is TEAMWORK. If we break it up into TEAM WORK, then “work” becomes an anagram indicator and “team” the anagram fodder, to give “mate”.

Hope this explains it more completely than my first attempt in the blog, where I’ve also corrected an error which might have contributed to the confusion.

By: bamberger

bamberger — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:03:34 +0000

Don’t recall a Jason before. Got most of this out but had abbreviation failure.

Turkey was obviously TY which left me with E?tya??.
Commander was clearly CO so 6d was co-???
11a had to be some some coffee drink -just couldn’t think of any alcoholic drink beginning with m.
13a Sorry don’t really get it.I can see that an anagram of mate is team and I can see that we get on with work but I can’t see where the anagram instruction is.

Liked the presentation of the blog

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:28:17 +0000

Many thanks Scchua and Jason.

This was very good!