Comments on: Financial Times 13,840 by Monk

By: togo

togo — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:21:33 +0000

Or, at a stretch perhaps – the ‘mainland’ of Britain (England,Wales and Scotland) is an island……….

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:21:06 +0000

Thanks for editing my comment @3.

13ac: I am inclined to agree with you. Perhaps it would have been better if the clue had read “part of the British Isles”.

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:25:34 +0000

Re 13 across: according to Wikipedia the Isle of Man is not and has never been part of Britain. Are there any Manx FT solvers out there who can verify this?

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:21:03 +0000

Thanks for the help finishing this. Pelham, your comment is updated as requested.

My car is still in the garage, but I now have a courtesy car and so all the children and associated belongings have finally been restored to thier proper locations, so I can relax again.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:15:04 +0000

Apologies for poor editing in my comment @3. Please delete "gives one" after "Chambers".

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:13:26 +0000

Thanks Monk for the crossword and PeeDee for the blog.

14dn: I like Mike04′s explanation, which has the support of Chambers

17dn: I also had this the same way as Mike04.

By: mike04

mike04 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:44:20 +0000

PS
14dn: as in “the one about the Englishman, the Irishman and the Scotsman”.
17dn: I took it that “ahead of this” meant in front of the solution MEMORY (if correct).
15dn: For OFF, Chambers gives “not eating or drinking”

By: mike04

mike04 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:42:18 +0000

Many thanks for a blog today, PeeDee. I hope your car problems are over now.

Today’s grid was an unusual shape, with only 22 clues.
The 6 long ones were reasonably straightforward (for Monk), I thought.

I finished quite quickly but stumbled at 14dn. Now I think ONES are the “stories”.
So IONESCO = I+ONES+C+O

In 17dn, I think the definition is COMMEMORATION and there are 3 examples
of MEMORY usage: “folk”,”commit to” and “race”.