Comments on: Financial Times 13,979 – Falcon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/26/financial-times-13979-falcon/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 12:59:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/26/financial-times-13979-falcon/#comment-191187 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:13:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43246#comment-191187 Well, Wanderer, in real life I do not come across bethels and nyalas that often myself, but they have their place in Crosswordland.
As to CANT (21d), as a noun, Chambers gives us as Definition #1:
“A hypocritical, affected or perfunctory style of speech or thought”. So I think, “insincere talk” is OK.
Sorry to see you found it (unlike me) hard.

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/26/financial-times-13979-falcon/#comment-191121 Bamberger Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:14:48 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43246#comment-191121 Far harder than most Everyman crosswords for me.
Couldn’t get
21d I’m afraid I still don’t see why insincere talk =cant.If you can’t do something what is the connection with insincere talk?
29a
22d I have never heard of this
24d Ditto
28a

Thanks for the answers

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