Comments on: Financial Times 13,870 by Cinephile http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Thomas99 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176488 Thomas99 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:00:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176488 Tristram is certainly right – another mistake Cinephile is not likely to make!

]]> By: PeeDee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176478 PeeDee Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:22:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176478 According to Wikipedia it can be spelled Tristan, Drustanus, Drystan, Trystan, Tristran or Tristram,though as you say Tristan is the most common.

]]> By: Samak http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176472 Samak Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:48:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176472 Agree with Tony

]]> By: Tony Welsh http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176467 Tony Welsh Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:47:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176467 Isn’t 8 down a mistake? King Arthur’s knight was Tristan, not Tristram.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176455 Eileen Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:31:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176455 Hi PeeDee [I've been out again]

There’s nothing wrong with your blog entry. It was later that doubts seem to have crept in. I was jusr observing that there are some compilers whose grammar I might sometimes suspect but never Araucaria’s – opps, sorry, Cinephile’s. ;-)

]]> By: PeeDee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176447 PeeDee Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:37:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176447 Hi Eileen, @25 I suspect my blog entry is wrong, not Araucaria’s clue.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176446 Eileen Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:30:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176446 Rather late back to the party – I’ve been in and out all day – but just wanted to say, re 25ac, that I would never, ever, suspect Cinephile of making a grammatical error!

And also that this is the only time I’ve appreciated my abominated middle name, BERYL. I would never have considered CORAL or PEARL, even without the initial B from MICAWBER! ;-)

]]> By: mike04 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176430 mike04 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:49:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176430 Thanks Thomas.
As you say, “clever stuff”. I think I’ve got my head round it now.
And that typo? I thought it was just to test us!

]]> By: Thomas99 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176428 Thomas99 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:36:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176428 Sorry – typo/confusion there: the singular verb in the solution is of course “cubes”, not “cube”.

]]> By: Thomas99 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/07/financial-times-13870-by-cinephile/#comment-176427 Thomas99 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:28:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37627#comment-176427 mike04 and PeeDee-
25a is fine. I made the same mistake at first, but in fact it’s a Double Definition: “Diamonds greatly increase in value” is another way of saying “Ice cubes”, ice (singular) meaning the same as diamonds (plural), so we need a plural verb in the clue (increase) and a singular verb in the solution (cube), which is what we have. Clever stuff.

It was only after I’d pointed out the “mistake” on another site that I realised there wasn’t one.

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