Comments on: Financial Times 13,830 / Falcon

By: shuchi

shuchi — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:22:03 +0000

@Stuart: 8d fixed, thank you!

@Conrad Cork, Pelham Barton: Thanks for the info about the distance between Crosby and Bootle. Makes the clue even better.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:40:57 +0000

Thanks Falcon for a pleasant crossword and shuchi for the blog. No-one has yet commented on the food and drink mini-theme. Just as with yesterday’s FT, I finished on the four letter answer checked as -O-E.

22ac: A new word to me, but clear from the wordplay.

21dn: Good choice of Bootle to go with Crosby (as already noted by Conrad @5).

By: Conrad Cork

Conrad Cork — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:09:48 +0000

Re 21 down, Crosby and Bootle are not just places in the UK, they are nearly next to each other in the Liverpool conurbation. So you could easily start in one and end in the other.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:43:53 +0000

Now who’s the fool? I meant ‘WillesdEn’ of course!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:42:50 +0000

An enjoyable puzzle & as always a fine blog- thank you.

A petty point – could you restitch 8d to show ‘WillEsden’ – it wasn’t much, but was home for many years.

By: Harish

Harish — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:13:51 +0000

Wonder what’s with father working at IAF and ‘CANTEEN’?

By: Rishi

Rishi — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:00:18 +0000

Re 19a CANTEEN: Araucaria once had a clue that read something like “Cutlery and where to use it”.

My father was in IAF and I as a boy knew ‘canteen’ only as a shop from which the bearer brought things.

The word also means ‘a flask for carrying liquids’. Recently there was a clue somewhere making use of this sense too.