Comments on: Financial Times 13839 Jason

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:27:53 +0000

Lenny @3/4: Thanks for that.

By: scchua

scchua — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:20:20 +0000

Hi Jan, sorry I wasn’t very clear about the pictures at the bottom. The (doubly) hidden connection is with 15D STAGE NAME. I gave a clue with all those unfamiliar names after Lady Gaga’s real name. I had intended solvers to match them with the faces and their stage names:

Doris Day – Kappelhoff
Dean Martin – Crocetti; and Jerry Lewis – Levitch
Michael Keaton (as/in Beetlejuice) – Douglas
Eric Morecambe – Bartholomew
Rock Hudson – Scherer
Elle MacPherson – Gow
Crystal Gayle – Webb

(late reply due time zone difference)

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:04:32 +0000

Thanks, scchua. My SE corner was almost empty. I don’t think I’m having a good day because this puzzle left me as unsatisfied as Brummie’s in the Guardian.

AS for your pics for 22d … I haven’t got a clue.

Doris Day
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
?
Eric Morecombe
Gosh – I know his face so well – whassisname?
Elle MacPherson?
?

By: Lenny

Lenny — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:57:36 +0000

Sorry, I meant “in all sincerity”

By: Lenny

Lenny — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:56:06 +0000

Thanks to Scchua and to Jason for a welcome confidence-booster after my whitewash on today’s Times crossword. I was slightly bemused by “metal bands” for straps but Chambers does specifically mention it. Last in was Pastures where I had difficulty equating cure with help.

I had the same problem as Pelham with All but Chambers gives “with all haste” and “in greatest sincerity” as examples.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:49:43 +0000

Thanks Jason for a pleasant puzzle and scchua for the blog.

10dn: I am not convinced that “Greatest” indicates ALL.

By: grandpuzzler

grandpuzzler — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:11:21 +0000

Thanks Jason and scchua. Regarding the pictures at 16ac: Woody Harrelson, Robert Redford and Demi Moore co-starred in the movie Indecent Proposal (1993).

Cheers…