Comments on: Financial Times no.13,829 by BRADMAN http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/20/financial-times-no-13829-by-bradman/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 17:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: TonyP http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/20/financial-times-no-13829-by-bradman/#comment-172428 TonyP Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:33:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35717#comment-172428 Thank you Ringo for the blog. As usual the Don in one of his disguises is too tough for me.

2ac – I think you mean ‘kine’ rather than ‘kines’.

]]> By: MikeC http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/20/financial-times-no-13829-by-bradman/#comment-172332 MikeC Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:39:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35717#comment-172332 Thanks Bradman and Ringo. Mostly enjoyable. I too hazarded DOPE at 19. The doubling of D to M in 14 was a new device to me – neat!

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/20/financial-times-no-13829-by-bradman/#comment-172330 Pelham Barton Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:15:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35717#comment-172330 Thanks Bradman for the puzzle and Ringo for the blog.

I too found this comparatively hard going but generally satisfying, and finished on 19ac. Lots of very nice clues. I think my favourite must be 15dn for the misdirection with “shed”. I also enjoyed the misdirection at 1dn: for some time I was trying to use “get hold of” as an inclusion indicator.

14ac: I wrote in DISTRESS, but that required some twisting of the clue: your explanation makes it clear that MISTRESS is the better answer.

19ac: Not the Don at his best. The two meanings are consecutive definitions under the same headword in my 1998 Chambers and there are so many other words that could have been used in the space.

28ac: As you imply, the formula used in this clue is often ambiguous. Here TENDER must be the correct answer, because RED NET is not really a proper phrase, and would have to be given as (3,3) if it were.

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