Comments on: Financial Times 13,852 by IO

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:05:22 +0000

Hi Joan,

I don’t like MI for M1 either, Roman numerals do not make sense for motorway numbers. Treating 1 and I as interchangeable characters has become a long esstablished tradition, so I guess we just have to live with it.

Score can also mean to delete or mark as deleted (in a typographical sense), so this is OK I think.

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:37:12 +0000

I sympathise with you Lynette. I didn’t enjoy this, either. There was a lot of good clever stuff in this, but just a few clues overstepped the mark and ruined it.
I thought ‘a big way’ = MI was very poor. ‘SE’ is ‘a’ London postcode area and not ‘the’ London area, unless ‘SE’ is meant to be ‘South East’ which is also not acceptable as ‘the London area’. Also in 9 to ‘score’ does not mean to cut off, it means to make a notch or an incision so is inappropriate in this context.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:47:50 +0000

I did not enjoy this at all. Far too contrived.

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:30:29 +0000

Of the two of Mr Henderson’s puzzles today (he has an Elgar Toughie in the DT) I found this one much harder work. Very entertaining as usual thank you to him and thank you to PeeDee for the blog.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:27:35 +0000

Thanks, PeeDee, for a great blog, and Io for a super puzzle, with some wonderful definitions, my favourite being ‘repeated double-crosser’.

There’s a bit more going on in 4adn: Neo is ‘a setting machine’ – he set yesterday’s crossword!