Comments on: Financial Times no.13,835 by SLEUTH http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/27/financial-times-no-13835-by-sleuth/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 00:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/27/financial-times-no-13835-by-sleuth/#comment-173010 Pelham Barton Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:48:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35976#comment-173010 Following comments on 23dn:

The reason I do not like “quick” crosswords is that so many clues are ambiguous without the checked letters. For a cryptic, it is a reasonable expectation that almost all clues will have unique answers. Occasionally a clue may have more than one valid answer, but only one of these should fit with the checking letters.

On the specific case of 23dn, ABBY would not have occurred to me as an alternative, because I would not regard “perhaps” as a satisfactory anagram indicator – but I have seen worse.

]]> By: Ringo http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/27/financial-times-no-13835-by-sleuth/#comment-172941 Ringo Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:53:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35976#comment-172941 Hi Dave – thanks for chipping in. Yeah, I think ‘Abby’ fits the clue very well – never thought of that. But I think it’s permissible if sometimes there’s no indicator other than the crossing letters as to which of two or more options is correct; you get this a lot with homophone-based clues, and (particularly) with cryptic definitions. Be interested to know what others think.

]]> By: Dave H http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/27/financial-times-no-13835-by-sleuth/#comment-172914 Dave H Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:48:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35976#comment-172914 Regular onlooker but occasional contributor. Thanks for the blog which helped expalin a few I could not fully parse.
However took an age on 25a and 27a as I had Abby for 23d b inside bay* which I was very confident on first read through and I cannot see how it is wrong and I think this clue has 2 pefectly correct solutions

]]> By: Ringo http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/27/financial-times-no-13835-by-sleuth/#comment-172830 Ringo Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:16:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35976#comment-172830 Hi Mike. You’re quite right, of course – sloppy work by me. I’ve corrected it now.

]]> By: MikeC http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/27/financial-times-no-13835-by-sleuth/#comment-172822 MikeC Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:04:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35976#comment-172822 Thanks Ringo and Sleuth. I enjoyed this. Btw, isn’t 11 “source of e(ntertainment)”, with “after excitement” as the anagram indicator? Needed your explanation of 2, which I’m sure is correct, now I see it!

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