Comments on: Financial Times 13,732 by Cinephile http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 09:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Coffee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162989 Coffee Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:05:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162989 27A and 10A made me laugh; came here because I ground to halt with 23D and 28A – doh!

]]> By: mike04 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162629 mike04 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:58:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162629 Hi again

See comment 5 above. Please ignore my last (fatuous?) remark about F and FOOD!
Mike

]]> By: dreadnought http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162626 dreadnought Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:32:55 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162626 Well I enjoyed this – and the blog. I started with 27a and then it fell into place. Agree with quibbles. And a mouth organ doesn’t take up too much space. Wondered why he (she?) didn’t use fatwah. Then thought again. sigh. Sad innit?

]]> By: PeeDee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162620 PeeDee Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:20:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162620 Hi Thaomas99, You are right of course in your thinking on AGOG, but “agog” and “can’t wait” are pretty much synonymous, the clue makes just as much sense without the extra words.

]]> By: mike04 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162619 mike04 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:14:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162619 Thanks for the blog, PeeDee

This was good fun, but I agree with most of your quibbles today.
In 12ac, I thought he was using ‘house’ as the verb ‘to store’ = ‘to find place to keep’.
In 04dn, I thought maybe he was referring to the phrase ‘down to earth’.
In 18ac, I can’t see how ‘(as they say)’ fits in.

Until the SUNFLOWER penny dropped I was really struggling with DOWNDRAUGHT and RATTLETRAP!
I liked the Fs touch in the clue for WALLER, but I wonder why F was not used for FOOD in 24ac and 20 dn?

]]> By: Thomas99 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162616 Thomas99 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:55:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162616 …but thanks for the blog too of course.

I did wonder if that was the source of “Rattlebag”. I’ve also just been reading about Heaney in the London Review of Books.

Re AGOG (18): I think someone’s “agog” if they might say “I can’t wait”, because they’re so excited, but not if they are actually incapable of waiting. That’s how I read the “as they say”.

Also for 12a I think it’s the verb “house”, meaning “to find place to keep”.

Awl is still a little mysterious.

]]> By: crypticsue http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162615 crypticsue Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:53:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162615 Great fun thank you Cinephile. My favourites have to be the ‘long time for the penny to drop’ or is that ‘fat to fall’ 27a and 17d. Thanks to PeeDee too.

]]> By: PeeDee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162614 PeeDee Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:51:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162614 Thank you Thomas99. I’ve been re-reading The Rattle Bag by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney recently, it seems to have lodged itself in my brain!

]]> By: Thomas99 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/06/29/financial-times-13732-by-cinephile/#comment-162611 Thomas99 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:43:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31188#comment-162611 Rattletrap! Rattlebag wouldn’t fit! And it isn’t a rickety vehicle. Oh, and SavanNas.

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