Comments on: Financial Times 13,832 – Dante http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/11/03/financial-times-13832-dante/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 06:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: TonyP http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/11/03/financial-times-13832-dante/#comment-173447 TonyP Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:29:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36077#comment-173447 Re 26d Chambers definition of palm includes ‘a leaf of this tree carried as a token of rejoicing or of victory; emblematically, pre-eminence, the prize; a branch of willow or other substitute in symbolic or ceremonial use.’ and the Thesaurus includes palm of victory.

New phrase for me too.

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/11/03/financial-times-13832-dante/#comment-173440 Bamberger Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:31:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36077#comment-173440 Couldn’t get 9a,29a,30a, 17d, 24d 7 26d
Was fairly sure 19d was fauna but didn’t know faun =rural deity.
Thought 26d might be palm but still don’t see how a palm is sign of victory. Is it a reference to the black power clenched fist or the Nazi Seig Heil? Can’t get much more opposite than that!

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