Comments on: Financial Times 13,795 by Cincinnus http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/22/financial-times-13795-by-cincinnus/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 11:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Wil Ransome http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/22/financial-times-13795-by-cincinnus/#comment-171016 Wil Ransome Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:39:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34555#comment-171016 I think ‘appoint’ could be used intransitively, Pete: an interviewing panel might make the statement ‘we are going to appoint in the near future’. Not a pleasant usage and it smacks of blue-sky thinking and reading from the same songsheet, but acceptable in the crossword sense if not the good English one.

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/22/financial-times-13795-by-cincinnus/#comment-170271 Bamberger Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:42:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34555#comment-170271 Thanks for the blog. I couldn’t see why 2d was what it was. I was looking for stick =rod . Ur has caught me out again.
7d was also a look up one.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/22/financial-times-13795-by-cincinnus/#comment-170211 Sil van den Hoek Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:26:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34555#comment-170211 Thanks Pete for your blog.

Of late, I have been very quiet on the Cincinnus front.
Although I always enjoy his puzzles, I can only say: this one was VSOP – vintage.

We live in a tick box world which is a world I do not like.
But here I ticked quite a few ‘boxes’.
A plus for the great definition of APPOINT (1ac) [I think an employer could get a post sorted by appointing someone, too - or not?], also for the fantastic surfaces of 7d (SILENUS), 15ac (TISSUE) and 3d (INAPT).
Fine cluing in 11ac (OVERT), 25ac (SPRINGIER) and 18d (MYCENAE) [with its nice device] too.

Yes, this was a charmer of a crossword, one in which I almost made an amusing mistake.
Looking at the clue of 10d, I initially thought – being rather careless – it had to be BRAND NEW LOVER …… :)
Both 23s were my last entries and both not bad at all (despite the violent surface of the across one).

CUTPURSE (16d) was a new word to me [as was 'wazzocks'], but one’s never too old to learn something.

Hugely enjoyable puzzle!

Thanks Pete for the blog. I do share your reservations about the order of things in 17ac and 7d, but as I have seen this so very often I’m immune to it nowadays.

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