Comments on: Financial Times 13,901 by Bradman

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:26:12 +0000

Sil, Ah, yes, come to think of it I have seen EC clued like this before. Thanks for the tip.

Wanderer, I did not recall it when thinking about this clue but I do have a memory of “the other place” being used in this sense. But “another place”? That’s new to me.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:21:26 +0000

Thanks Pete and Bradman.

In 14, I think this is parliamentary slang. A member of the House of Lords might refer to the Commons as ‘another place’ and vice versa. Hence house next door.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:48:05 +0000

24d: THI[s] (‘this’ is ultimately deficient) inside EC (postal code of London’s inner city, quite often used in crosswords and nearly always defined by ‘the City’).

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:15:46 +0000

Bob, Thank you for filling me in. I had come across ‘pi’ in this sense before but missed it here.

By: Bob Cumbow

Bob Cumbow — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:02:01 +0000

Regarding 27A, the followers of that heretic were known as Arians. So “a holy heretic” would be A PI (slang for pious) ARIAN, and the whole word APIARIAN means “pertaining to an apiary”, definitely a place with buzz.