Comments on: Financial Times 13,996 by Mudd

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:50:07 +0000

scchua, Thank you. You have led me to realize my mistake. I was looking up ‘any road’ and I should have been looking up ‘however’. I was thinking of ‘however’ in its meaning as a conjunction while, as now becomes clear, Mudd was using it in its meaning as an adverb — which fits perfectly. As in, “How should I do this?” “However you like.”

By: scchua

scchua — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:48:09 +0000

P.S. To be more precise, ……”any way” = “anyhow” = = “anyroad”, as in Chambers.

By: scchua

scchua — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:43:54 +0000

Thanks Pete and Mudd.
Agree it’s a challenge, and, I found, an enjoyable one.
I too liked SADDLE-SORE.
Re 24A ANYROAD. One has to split “however” into “how ever” = “any way” = “anyroad”, I think. Or else it’s a typo

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:08:04 +0000

Thanks, Sil, I have updated the blog.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:12:50 +0000

Thanks, Pete, for your blog.
You say you do not fully understand 22D, but I think you do.
It is indeed a hidden solution (device: not entirely), and Neath is a town in the South of Wales. As simple as that.
Only little thing: in 9ac SIT is just ‘rest’ – ‘to grab’ is the container indicator.
Can’t help you any further with 24ac.
All in all, the usual Paul Lite quality stuff from Mudd (for which many thanks).