Comments on: Financial Times 13,720 by GAFF http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/15/financial-times-13720-by-gaff/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: PeeDee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/15/financial-times-13720-by-gaff/#comment-161378 PeeDee Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:28:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30728#comment-161378 Hi niloci, the complete instructions would certainly have made it easier, but I enjoyed the challenge of having to figure it out anyway.

]]> By: Wanderer http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/15/financial-times-13720-by-gaff/#comment-161377 Wanderer Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:27:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30728#comment-161377 Thanks to PeeDee for the blog, and to GAFF for a very difficult but (only just) doable crossword. And thanks to niloci for supplying the omitted intro — that may have made it a little easier, but in the end I got there without needing it. Mind you, like PeeDee I fear I resorted to the web to find a possible birthday boy; I don’t think I would have cracked this puzzle without doing so.

Am I alone in finding the split words rather irritating? Jumping around the grid to fit together SURF+ACES, AUDI+TORS, BETA+KING etc was the hardest part of the crossword for me.

A good challenge.

]]> By: niloci http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/15/financial-times-13720-by-gaff/#comment-161374 niloci Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:45:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30728#comment-161374 The following intro should have appeared with this puzzle:
Five 2-word solutions are each completed with the 8.
Their clues have no definition part

Apologies for the omission.

]]> By: PeeDee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/15/financial-times-13720-by-gaff/#comment-161368 PeeDee Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:18:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30728#comment-161368 Conrad,

‘Henry the Green Engine’ was a character in The Railway Stories. Click on the ‘Henry Green’ link in the solution in the blog to find out more.

See 27 refers to the following clue, 12 across, which is paired with 27 down.

]]> By: Conrad Cork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/15/financial-times-13720-by-gaff/#comment-161367 Conrad Cork Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:08:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30728#comment-161367 I went on a massive wild goose chase: having got Henry Green I assumed it was to do with one of my favourite novelists, and so got nowhere (even though there was no centennial involved). Still don’t know why he is there. Why’see 27′? Help appreciated.

]]> By: Bracoman http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/15/financial-times-13720-by-gaff/#comment-161364 Bracoman Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:49:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30728#comment-161364 Many thanks for the blog and explanations. Although I knew very little about Thomas the Tank Engine, I managed to finish it with the aid of Wikipedia. Quite satisfying once it was completed.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/15/financial-times-13720-by-gaff/#comment-161359 Bryan Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:50:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=30728#comment-161359 Many thanks PeeDee your explanations are appreciated.

I Googled today’s anniversaries and shuddered when the awful theme emerged.

Knowing nowt about Awdry or his stuff, I immediately surrendered.

Now if only it had been Audrey Hepburn …

What an awful gaffe!

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