Comments on: Financial Times 13,686 / Styx http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/06/financial-times-13686-styx/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/06/financial-times-13686-styx/#comment-158413 Sil van den Hoek Fri, 06 May 2011 20:25:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29292#comment-158413 Thanks shuchi, for a good blog of a very nice crossword.
Styx is a setter who’s high in my FT Ranking, and today’s puzzle was no disappointment.
As always – and unlike you, at least today – I ended up in the NW where Styx championed me.
Forgot to check KISMET, failed to see ISOMER [I considered it, but now I see the explanation: great use of "in stomach of" for [g]IR[l] ], while I must kick myself for not having found TENANT.

I wasn’t sure whether 14ac was ALTER-N/C-ATIONS.
I put in IONS for ‘electrical charged particles’ and therefore couldn’t make perfect sense of the first part.

Only quibble: the definition of THE STATES (4d). Just ‘Place’ is a bit meagre, isn’t it?

Apart from that, a lot of clever and inventive cluing – but, as you said, not too tough.

]]> By: bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/06/financial-times-13686-styx/#comment-158410 bamberger Fri, 06 May 2011 19:35:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29292#comment-158410 After four days of getting nowhere with the Indie, I took one look at today’s offering which included one four word clue and thought no.
I managed all bar five clues here and found it enjoyable rather than a frustrating waste of time -so thanks setter, thanks FT crossword editor and thanks for the blog

]]>