Comments on: Financial Times 13,889 / Bradman

By: mlega

mlega — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:33:18 +0000

Thanks to Bradman and shuchi for excellent puzzle and blog.

25ac was a brilliant clue, since in a Fibonacci series, the sum of adjacent numbers is the next element of the series.

I liked the biblical clues, 11ac and 6dn too, but missed 5dn. It had to be femurs but…

By: Bradman (etc.)

Bradman (etc.) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:45:10 +0000

Thanks for all comments over past year. Happy solving in 2012.

By: shuchi

shuchi — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:44:58 +0000

@Pelham Barton: Thanks, I have included 12a in the blog now.

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:41:48 +0000

Got about half out.
I had 3d as “perch” being something found in a lake and something that birds sit upon. As the third letter was r which intersected with the r of ytterbium, I thought it was correct which didn’t help my failed attempts 1a or 11a.
7d I didn’t think much of this. Google it and it is simple. If you have never heard of him, it isn’t much of clue at all.
15a Well done to anyone who got that unaided.
22a Also not impressed by this.Pick any female name out of thousands and add one of thousands of places in London. Ok if you have some checking letters you might get it-otherwise?
Thanks for the blog.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:24:28 +0000

Correction to 1: “Favourite” not “Favoutie”, which is a typing error, not – to my knowledge, anyway – a dialect word.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:22:36 +0000

Thanks Bradman for a puzzle well up to your usual delightful standard and shuchi for the blog. Favoutie clue 26ac.

12ac: HERETICAL (TEACHER I L[ove])*: “Unorthodox” is the definition and “inordinately” the anagram indicator, so the L must be part of the anagram.