Comments on: Financial Times 13,789 by Mudd http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/financial-times-13789-by-mudd/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/financial-times-13789-by-mudd/#comment-170488 Pete Maclean Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:23:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34151#comment-170488 Wil, That’s a good point about 18dn that I missed.

]]> By: Wil Ransome http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/financial-times-13789-by-mudd/#comment-170485 Wil Ransome Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:54:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34151#comment-170485 I wasn’t comfortable with rotation = alternation, something you have to accept for 14dn. But it’s OK I suppose, because one of the types of rotation is rotation of two events, and that’s alternation.

But I was more unhappy with pectoral = chest (18dn). So far as I can see pectoral is either an adjective, or a type of muscle. Neither of these seem to me to be satisfied by ‘chest’. If Mudd had clued it as ‘Clear top off of chest’, that would have been sound but of course ungrammatical.

]]> By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/financial-times-13789-by-mudd/#comment-169798 Pete Maclean Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:18:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34151#comment-169798 Sil, Ah, yes, thanks. I have recognized several devices of that type recently but missed this one. In general, I think it’s an okay device although this is not a great example.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/financial-times-13789-by-mudd/#comment-169746 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:10:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34151#comment-169746 Re 16a, it is like one of those devices that you see more and more nowadays, but which are not everyone’s cup of tea.
According to Chambers a COT can be “A small bed, esp one with high sides for a young child”, therefore “sleeping like a baby” might be seen as “in a cot”.
And so “information sleeping like a baby” is: GEN inside COT.
The question mark indicates the deviousness of the device.

]]> By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/financial-times-13789-by-mudd/#comment-169735 Pete Maclean Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:22:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34151#comment-169735 Hi Bamberger,

10a I am also more familiar with POTAGE and thought of that first then, when I realized it did not fit, I looked for a different answer. It took me a while to come back to POTTAGE.

16a I did not have all my dictionaries at hand when I worked on this puzzle so I could be missing something but, as far as I can see, the clueing for COT is deficient.

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/15/financial-times-13789-by-mudd/#comment-169734 Bamberger Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:11:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34151#comment-169734 10a I didn’t realise that pottage and potage are both soups- I’d only heard of the latter.
11a Agree that this is an afternoon item -where does Mudd come from?
12a never seen U U =W before
16a Sleeping like a baby =cot doesn’t seem to make sense. Am I missing something? Sleeping like an adult=bed wouldn’t make sense 31a Private Eye’s Cyclops has the answer of swank this week. Let’s just say it is not clued in this way.
14d Couldn’t get this.

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