Comments on: Financial Times 13,782 / Falcon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/26/financial-times-13782-falcon/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 12:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/26/financial-times-13782-falcon/#comment-168206 Bryan Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:53:48 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33457#comment-168206 Many thanks Gaufrid & Falcon, this was very enjoyable.

DOO-WOP was new to me but I guessed it correctly.

MALEFACTOR was my COD as my first thoughts centred on Maxwell Knight of MI5 – who was known as M – but I couldn’t think of any of his agents who would be sufficiently well known. Possibly Olga Gray, Marjorie Mackie or Amor, Helene de Muncke, Friedl Gartner …

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/26/financial-times-13782-falcon/#comment-168204 Pelham Barton Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:41:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33457#comment-168204 Thanks Falcon for the puzzle and Gaufrid for the blog. A pleasant way of filling part of my lunch break.

The relatively simple clues and the linked answers (14, 20 and 2,6) compensate to some extent for the quartered grid. I know this grid has been used many times over the years, but I would be happy never to see it again.

I had my doubts about 25ac, but the parts fit together as explained by Gaufrid.

I am slightly unhappy with “not available” as an exclusion indicator in 3dn. Am I being too picky, or would the clue work better as something like “Continue to suppose parking’s not on”?

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