Comments on: Financial Times 13,708 by Cinephile

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:12:04 +0000

Oops, sorry, didn’t see your update on 19d ….

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:10:38 +0000

Thanks PeeDee, not that difficult.
I think the Rev had his Rev hat on today.
HABEAS CORPUS, LACHRYMA CHRISTI, ROWAN and GOD WILLING.
The latter I did understand, but something inside me tells me that I don’t like 5005 to be split into 500 and 5.

My take on 19d (WOLFRAM) was a bit different.
I had to think of “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
As a ‘ram’ is a male sheep, this makes perfect sense.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:05:07 +0000

Many thanks PeeDee I failed to understand GOD WILLING and I failed to get AGATHA CHRISTY or whatever the so-called wine is supposed to be called.

It’s probably just plonk with a fancy label. After all, most wine arrives in this country in bulk and it then gets bottled and labelled. Otherwise it’s all the same subject only to a few variables such as colour.

I once served my late mother-in-law with some Ribena in a wine glass. She sipped it carefully and proclaimed it excellent.

By: smiffy

smiffy — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:47:45 +0000

Thanks for the DV illumination at 21A PeeDee. I actually solved this puzzle late last night, but was still racking my brains some 12hrs later, trying to figure out the word(or should that be number?)play.
At least RICOTTA was easier to verify! HUMDRUM didn’t bother me to much, but I do agree that th clue for WOLFRAM is too busy and Ill-defined for it’s own good.

By: the button

the button — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:35:30 +0000

Took me a while to get started on this one, but Habeas Corpus got me going.

Was pleased with Animal Farm, then stumped for ages with the final clue- the 16,9 wine.
I’m not oenophile (is that the right word?) but decided that if there ISN’T a wine called Lachryma Christi, then there certainly should be. Cetainly never seen it in Tesco.

As PeeDee said, a few of my answers were guesses, including God Willing – Thank you for the expanation

By: Rishi

Rishi — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:30:27 +0000

Re 17d, “Ordinary, vaguely musical, rhyme (7″) HUMDRUM, my take is this:

‘Ordinary’ is the def, of course.

HUM is from ‘vaguely musical’. When we hum a song, we may not be quite accurate or too musical.

Its rhyme gives DRUM !