Comments on: Financial Times 13,920 – Dante http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/16/financial-times-13920-dante/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/16/financial-times-13920-dante/#comment-183055 Sil van den Hoek Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:48:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40489#comment-183055 And, Bamberger, those who like period dramas on TV will know him too.
That’s why I said that he was a ‘desperate 27ac’.

“Desperate Romantics” – BBC, 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Romantics

“BBC finally invested in broadcast of ten top drama series – here’s one (9,9)”
Or alternatively: “Rossetti raped me – can possibly be seen on tv (9,9)”
OK, one more then: “Silly me, pedestrian actors on tv (9,9)”.
:)

]]> By: eimi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/16/financial-times-13920-dante/#comment-183053 eimi Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:18:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40489#comment-183053 Lots of people have heard of Dante Gabriel Rossetti – if you’re ever in Oxford check out his paintings of Jane Morris in the Ashmolean – she’s a real stunner. His sister was quite famous too. Have you ever heard In the Bleak Midwinter? Keep solving and keep learning.

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/16/financial-times-13920-dante/#comment-183050 Bamberger Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:57:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40489#comment-183050 Couldn’t get 10a -I mean come on Dante Gabriel ROSSETTI who on earth has heard of him? Otherwise didn’t need a solver

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/16/financial-times-13920-dante/#comment-182893 Pelham Barton Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:28:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40489#comment-182893 John @3 re 19ac: “for it” in the sense of “in trouble”. Chambers 2008 gives this implicitly with be for it (inf) to have something unpleasant about to happen, esp a scolding.

]]> By: John Newman http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/16/financial-times-13920-dante/#comment-182848 John Newman Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:15:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40489#comment-182848 Thanks Sil. I couldn’t get ETNA but can see now how clever it is. I also couldn’t work out the cryptic side of ROMANTIC and didn’t know how IL worked for Italian. So thanks for those explanations.

I can’t see the cryptic nature of 10A, I am afraid. And I don’t understand the “for it” in 19A.

Dante is a bit saucy at times isn’t he? 30A is even more so than his “two girls on one kneee”.

]]> By: Rishi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/16/financial-times-13920-dante/#comment-182847 Rishi Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:13:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40489#comment-182847 PS

“Saith” is 3rd person singular present indicative and so I think it will give only ‘says’ not ‘said’.

Perhaps there is a better explanation for 15a, which has “said to sound archaic” (emphasis added).

]]> By: Rishi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/16/financial-times-13920-dante/#comment-182838 Rishi Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:54:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40489#comment-182838 Re your query at 15a: ‘Seth’ is homophone of “saith”, an archaic form for “says”.

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