Comments on: Financial Times no.13,769 by HAMILTON http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/11/financial-times-no-13769-by-hamilton/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 00:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: quodlibet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/11/financial-times-no-13769-by-hamilton/#comment-167236 quodlibet Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:59:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32919#comment-167236 President George W. Bush was supposed to have said that there is no French word for ‘entrepreneur’, but this seems to be a canard (do the French have a word for that?) Ronald Reagan did claim that Russian had no word for ‘freedom’.

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/11/financial-times-no-13769-by-hamilton/#comment-167201 Pelham Barton Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:39:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32919#comment-167201 Thanks Hamilton for the puzzle and Ringo for the blog.

Re 21ac: this was one of many that took me longer than it should have done, but I was perfectly happy with it once I had solved it.

Because I started with 1ac, I had no problem solving 1dn. Nonetheless I feel it is an unsatisfactory clue, since PAULA would work equally well without the checked letters.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/11/financial-times-no-13769-by-hamilton/#comment-167200 Bryan Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:28:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32919#comment-167200 Many thanks Ringo & Hamilton. This was a real pleasure after having struggled with today’s Grauniad Cryptic.

However, I did fail to get 23a SIDINGS as this possibilty never occurred to me.

Try as I may, I can’t win them all.

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