Comments on: Financial Times 13,692 / Mudd http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 00:36:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/#comment-158975 Sil van den Hoek Fri, 13 May 2011 18:27:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29560#comment-158975 After I printed out the puzzle this morning, the clues for 3d and 4d were inescapable, making clear that Mudd had his Paul-hat on today. Great fun puzzle, just like Punk’s in the Indy a few days ago. Mr H must be a happy man at the moment! :)

Agree with all your favourites shuchi, but I would like to add 17d (AU GRATIN).

Friday the 13th? Well, not in Crosswordland!
Just done the Crucible – also very fine – ‘and now for something completely different’: Nimrod [nicked the paper from college for that reason].

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/#comment-158966 Bryan Fri, 13 May 2011 17:24:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29560#comment-158966 Eileen @ 5

No – I wasn’t joking.

Many thanks for the enlightenment.

Bryan

]]> By: jmac http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/#comment-158964 jmac Fri, 13 May 2011 17:17:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29560#comment-158964 Another wimmer from Mudd. When this setter is on his game (as here) it’s a privilege to solve his puzzles – so much fun for free!

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/#comment-158963 Eileen Fri, 13 May 2011 17:11:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29560#comment-158963 Hi Bryan

Are you joking? It’s the third one blogged on this site:

http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/puzzles/crosswords/cryptic/

It’s by Nimrod [Enigmatist]if you’ve really never tried an Indy.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/#comment-158961 Bryan Fri, 13 May 2011 16:11:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29560#comment-158961 Very many thanks Shuchi this was a real treat.

Having been born and brought up near Manchester, I have been to concerts given by the HALLE ORCHESTRA, so this came easily but I did wonder how other more distant puzzlers would fare. Well done!

I have enjoyed 2 great puzzles today (this and The Grauniad) but I now have to wonder where is the third that Eileen raved about in 2 above?

Also, many thanks Mudd for this and also for last Saturday’s Prize Puzzle in The Grauniad. That, too, was excellent.

]]> By: Geoff http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/#comment-158939 Geoff Fri, 13 May 2011 13:10:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29560#comment-158939 Thanks, shuchi.

Good entertainment, this one. I particularly enjoyed 7d and 19d.

Strictly speaking, a RUSH (see 1a) is not a ‘grass’, but a plant from a different, though related family. And it was traditionally the reluctant groom who was forced into marriage at the point of a shotgun, rather than the pregnant bride! But these are mere details, and didn’t serve either to mislead or to spoil the fun.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/#comment-158938 Eileen Fri, 13 May 2011 13:07:05 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29560#comment-158938 Thanks for the blog, shuchi

As you say, this was a real fun puzzle and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I agree with all your favourites [especially 14ac!] and would add 18ac.

Re 27 ac: I took it as meaning that if salesmen were hopeless, in the sense of useless, they would wish to ‘remain nameless’, as the saying goes.

We’ve been very lucky today [Friday 13th!] – three super puzzles. :-)

]]> By: crypticsue http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/13/financial-times-13692-mudd/#comment-158929 crypticsue Fri, 13 May 2011 11:31:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29560#comment-158929 Thought it was going to be a struggle to start with but it soon fell into place. Agree that it was great fun – just difficult to laugh out loud when you are pretending to work in a shared office!

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