Comments on: Financial Times 13,862 – Crux http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/08/financial-times-13862-dante/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 01:10:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/08/financial-times-13862-dante/#comment-176633 Bamberger Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:45:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37520#comment-176633 Even with solvers couldn’t get the last word of 10a, 7d, 8d & 19d .
Don’t think I would ever have got estate. I know French words and some German words are fair game but where does it all end?

]]> By: Wolfie http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/08/financial-times-13862-dante/#comment-176528 Wolfie Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:49:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37520#comment-176528 Hi Sil – thanks for the blog.

I think 16d is ok – in a rainbow the colours are arranged in circles with a common centre. Though ‘parallel’ in geometry usually applies to straight lines, it is also used of curved lines with a common centre, so it is correct to describe the colours of the rainbow as parallel.

cf. OED (on-line edition):

[Parallel]In Geom. applied to straight lines in the same plane, or to planes, which never meet however far produced in either (or any) direction;[...] more rarely applied to curved lines or surfaces which are continuously equidistant, i.e. which have common normals at all points (e.g. concentric circles or spheres)…

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/08/financial-times-13862-dante/#comment-176492 Paul B Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:24:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=37520#comment-176492 Good blog and good puzzle with some great ideas, though agree 15A probably not the tightest. 6D, well, yeah all right then. Just one thing, ON THE SPOT is cd&d.

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