Comments on: Financial Times 13915 Neo

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:37:39 +0000

Many apologies, scchua, on both counts. I did mean ‘unlike’, of course, and I’m never sure how much of our news is familiar to our overseas solvers.

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:48:55 +0000

Hi Eileen, I think you meant “Unlike you, I didn’t know…”?
I did remember ‘the People’s Princess’, but given the backlash to using DI (or even DIANA?), I had shelved it while exploring other possibilities. But it does make for a sort of nice surface.

By: Neo

Neo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:33:53 +0000

Pleasure ma’am. Thanks to scchua too!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:04:11 +0000

Thanks, scchua, for the blog.

Like you, I didn’t know all the films. I found DEAD FALL for 10, – it works perfectly, [see 6dn in today's Anax!] except that it’s one word, but then I told myself that sometimes the enumeration’s wrong! I was put right by 16dn.

I really liked the clue for ELECTORATE. scchua, you may not know that, at the time of Princess Diana’s death, Tony Blair famously referred to her as ‘the People’s Princess’ and, as ‘Princess’ in crosswords has for so long led to DI, this was a double piece of misdirection. Nice one, Neo – thanks for the puzzle!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:01:14 +0000

Oops!

I now see that you already had it!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:59:56 +0000

Many thanks Scchua & Neo

This was very enjoyable!

However, ROAD TRIP was also a (not very well known) movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215129/