Comments on: Financial Times 13,968 – Dante

By: Petrus

Petrus — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:16:57 +0000

Thank you Sil for the blog. This postscript comes even later than yours, and for the same reason.

And thank you to Dante for a great puzzle, sparkling with real gems. See above.

Re 15 across: I thought your linking of ‘club retainer’ to cave de jazz ingenious, but a bit of a stretch. Isn’t it more likely to be a Dantesque reference to the cartoon cliché: stone-age man dragging his wife along by the hair with one hand … holding a club in the other?

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:18:00 +0000

Of course, both of you are right about 18d.
Silly me.
I couldn’t say this earlier because I was abroad [which wasn't abroad in those days when the UK was abroad].
Didn’t do any crossword in the last two weeks, leaving me now with a back catalogue of some 30 interesting challenges ….

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:21:52 +0000

Hi Sil, thanks for the blog. My favourite clues were 28, 29 and 30 across. I failed to get 12A as a result of spelling MANOEUVRE wrongly — argh!! And I am with Eileen on 18 down.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:28:21 +0000

Thanks for the blog, Sil. I agree with you re the gems – but I think 18dn is a homophone of A CUSTOM.

Many thanks. Dante, for a nice puzzle.