Comments on: Financial Times 13,704 / Sleuth http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 26 May 2013 05:54:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sleuth http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/#comment-159936 Sleuth Fri, 27 May 2011 23:02:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30047#comment-159936 Many thanks to Gaufrid for his blog and all for comments.

Re Conrad Cork @3, I defer to your superior knowledge of Turgenev but he is defined in major biographical
reference works as a novelist and dramatist so don’t think the latter is misleading

Re Joe @5, thanks for spotting the pangram

Re Bryan @7, no but I do enjoy wearing a trench coat

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/#comment-159913 Bryan Fri, 27 May 2011 17:27:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30047#comment-159913 Many thanks Gaufrid & Sleuth, this was very enjoyable even though I gave up on 2d AMASS and 9a JAILER.

I wonder if Sleuth resembles Humphrey Bogart?

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/#comment-159876 Gaufrid Fri, 27 May 2011 11:33:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30047#comment-159876 Hi Joe
I appreciate your concern regarding 2dn but it is a device that has been used before and no doubt we will see it again.

You are right about the pangram. I hadn’t noticed it because I was preoccupied with trying to think of something to fit the second half of 6dn.

]]> By: Joe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/#comment-159875 Joe Fri, 27 May 2011 11:25:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30047#comment-159875 And yeah, with the numerous Gs and Ks floating around, to go with a J and Q, I thought Sleuth had a pangram sealed. And am not I right?

]]> By: Joe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/#comment-159874 Joe Fri, 27 May 2011 11:22:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30047#comment-159874 Solving FT after quite sometime, yet managed to finish this pretty fast. Loved most of the clues, though I felt some were quite wordy.

I do have a quibble on 2D: Gather a builder’s not working AMASS – An ‘s’ in the apostrophe cannot easily become a part of the answer, I thought. Plain reading only gets me to ‘A MASON has not ON’, which in turn gets me ‘AMAS’.

]]> By: Conrad Cork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/#comment-159873 Conrad Cork Fri, 27 May 2011 09:33:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30047#comment-159873 Sorry but I can’t let Sleuth get away with defining Turgenev as ‘dramatist’. Writer would be better, and even novelist would not be wrong. but not dramtist. Nobody thinks of Turgenev primarily as a dramatist. Fortunately the wordplay was unambiguous. All the same I’m miffed.

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/#comment-159869 Gaufrid Fri, 27 May 2011 09:03:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30047#comment-159869 Thanks Eileen
I knew I had to be missing something obvious! I just did not think of rubbish = bull, both in the sense of nonsense.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/27/financial-times-13704-sleuth/#comment-159865 Eileen Fri, 27 May 2011 08:57:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30047#comment-159865 Thanks for the blog, Gaufrid, especially for 9ac, which I just couldn’t see.

I was puzzled by 6dn, too, then concluded that it must be ‘bull’. Not good, I know, but …

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