Comments on: Financial Times 14,043 by Bradman

By: Neb

Neb — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:43:48 +0000

Some nice clues, but xyster and sasarara forced me to the dictionary. I like the surface of the latter, but refuse to believe many knew the meaning without looking it up.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:43:53 +0000

Thank you, Pelham Barton. I really should have spotted that.

I guess I shouldn’t try to eat, drink, talk to my colleagues, and try to solve the crossword all at the same time!

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:32:08 +0000

Thanks Bradman for an excellent puzzle and Jed for the blog.

Richard @2 re 1ac: I think DAMP is really being clued by all of “likely to get rusty maybe” rather than simply as a synonym of “rusty”.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:10:06 +0000

Thank you for the blog, Jed.

I managed just over half of this in the 30 mins I had free this lunchtime.

I think 14 & 11 are great clues, but I didn’t make the association that Mary = Molly.

I’d never have thought of ‘Damp’ as a synonym of ‘Rusty’ nor ‘out’ as a synonym of ‘ready’.

SASARARA, XYSTER, & MOIRE are all new words to me.

By: Shuchi

Shuchi — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:18:36 +0000

Very enjoyable crossword from Bradman as always.

Loved 14a for ingeniously tying the definition with the anagram. VENTRILOQUISTS must have been a hard word to clue.