Comments on: Financial Times 13,760 – Crux

By: mark

mark — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:36:06 +0000

Re 18, postal strike may be a “frank” (as in franking a stamp, when it’s stamped). Frank (candid, etc) = upright?

I managed Saturday’s but this one floored me, but then I’m still fairly new to this game.

By: mike04

mike04 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:42:28 +0000

Thanks for your blog, Sil. Yes, a trickier Monday puzzle.

I think there are sporting references in 18ac and 1dn/20ac:

In Football and other sports, the UPRIGHT is the upright post in a goalpost.
A postal strike could be a near goal. Maybe the adjective “postal” in this sense is just whimsical.

I think THE TWO may refer to the Number 2 on a Dartboard.
DOUBLE in 1dn would give us 4. Maybe ‘Score’ and ’20′ are there as distractors.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:07:18 +0000

Many thanks Sil and Crux.

When I did this ages ago, I rated it ‘Very Enjoyable’ and noted that GREENS and APPRISES were my last entries.

This again shows what we already knew: that each of us is different.

I did like THE ROARING TWENTIES which brought back fond memories of the late Dorothy Provine and the 1960-1962 tv series of that name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Provine

I still enjoy many of the songs of that decade and there’s a certain Crossie Setter who could probably tell us of the Speak Easies that he once visited.