Comments on: Financial Times 14,003 – Falcon

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:39:39 +0000

Yes, Bamberger and Jan, ‘sone’ was clearly a typo.
I thought solvers would see that, so I didn’t make much of a fuss about it.
Therefore I corrected it in my blog.
In yesterday’s excellent Monk the FT had even two typos (internittedly/intermittedly and deciptated/decapitated) – let’s blame it on the weather ….

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:22:50 +0000

Thanks, Sil. I solved 3d, I knew of TYR, but, like Bamberger, I was completely bemused by the word ‘sone’ in the clue!

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:50:32 +0000

I couldn’t for the life of me get 3d not helped by son being sone in the online version when I printed it out .Sone “A subjective unit of loudness, as perceived by a person with normal hearing, equal to the loudness of a pure tone having a frequency of 1,000 hertz at 40 decibels.”

By: mike04

mike04 — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:36:03 +0000

Thanks Sil. As you say, an easy one.

I parsed ONUS in the same way as you. This clue’s been around for a while!
ON is being used as the ON in “The drinks are on me”. (That would good sometime!)

The Alamo was a Franciscan Mission in San Antonio, Texas:
http://www.history.com/topics/alamo, for example.

Mike