Comments on: Financial Times 13,952 by Gozo

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:07:22 +0000

nmsindy – judging by his previous form I would not be in the least surprised if Gozo came up with a 15×15 grid of Oscar winners. I was looking for something similar myself. All we need now is for someone to find a film version of Erewhon and Gozo has completed a film themed grid by accident!

Gozo – thank you for dropping in to the blog.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:25:31 +0000

Now, now, Steve at #2, it might just be a little hard to get a 15X15 grid with all the across answers being Oscar-winning films.

I enjoyed this and was able (eventually) to work all the titles out from the clear and friendly wordplay tho I was looking for the VT of Vermont for a while in the clue that referred to it. Thanks, Gozo and PD, tho you must have forgotten the film of Romany Rye (well, it was made in 1915…)

By: Atticus

Atticus — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:02:32 +0000

My thanks too to PeeDee and Gozo. I didn’t get Romany Rye and three others in the SE — but I’m thankful that the answer to 29 is not, as I was beginning to fear, Roland Rat.

By: Gozo

Gozo — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:26:50 +0000

Yes! Literature is the theme this time. Don’t forget that my Christmas Jumbo had “films” as the theme, so I wouldn’t want to repeat that topic so soon afterwards. In fact, the “film” connection totally escaped me as I was compiling the puzzle.
I avoided the NOWHERE anagram of “EREWHON”, as I reckoned it was too obvious!
Thanks to PeeDee for his review.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:39:05 +0000

Thanks PeeDee and Gozo. Like you, I enjoyed this but also struggled to define the theme – with ‘Ben Hur’ followed by ‘Death on the Nile’ among the first in, I thought it was going to be Oscar-winning movies. But then along comes the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Erewhon’ (which of course is an anagram of nowhere). By the way, there is a typo in 12A (de = some in French, not dome).

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:33:48 +0000

An enjoyable tussle to sort out the themed answers. Like PeeDee, I am not exactly sure what the theme is, I went for ‘literature’ too.