Comments on: Financial Times no.13,775 by ORENSE http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/18/financial-times-no-13775-by-orense/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 02:07:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ferret http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/18/financial-times-no-13775-by-orense/#comment-167707 Ferret Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:12:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33164#comment-167707 Straight forward solve with the exception of entering Mali for 17A on the first pass……

]]> By: Ringo http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/18/financial-times-no-13775-by-orense/#comment-167679 Ringo Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:42:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33164#comment-167679 Hi Pelham.

Re. 22ac, I’m just not sure that ‘store’ by itself is sufficient to define ‘wardrobe’ – but I’m just being picky. Fair points on the others, particularly 16dn – I agree.

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/18/financial-times-no-13775-by-orense/#comment-167659 Pelham Barton Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:45:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33164#comment-167659 Thanks Orense and ringo. A pleasant crossword. I am inclined to agree that the second appearance of ration is unfortunate.

With this shape of grid I am on full nina alert these days and having found that 1ac, 9ac, and 11ac all began with A I was disappointed that the pattern was not continued – but that is not in any way a criticism.

I did not see any double duty in 22ac: I parsed it as Part of a hospital (WARD) gown (ROBE) in (linking word) store (WARDROBE) here (possibly redundant indication that store is the definition).

I would not call 14dn only half-cryptic. Although I have described the device of cluing a two-word phrase by defining each word individually as mundane, this clue has a nice surface and works for me.

A minor quibble with 16dn: I do not like “role began” for “first letter of role”. Would not “beginning” be better?

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