Comments on: Financial Times 14,049 by Loroso

By: mike04

mike04 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:45:35 +0000

Sil @12: I think so!
Mike.

By: anax

anax — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:07:18 +0000

Hello friends. Sorry I’m a bit late chipping in – yes, for me it’s 3am and I’m only just back from a gig, hence the absence.

Many thanks to Jed for the super blog and to all for your comments. I didn’t realise ZERO would be so tricky but I’m glad most of you got there in the end and got a smile out of it.

Have a great weekend everyone.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:05:53 +0000

mike04 @11: “Where is Courtier this year?”
Magic sorcerer, he is – are you with it?

By: mike04

mike04 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:33:32 +0000

Thanks very much, Loroso and Jed.

I parsed HACKERS in the same way, Ernie. Perhaps this was what Jed meant in the blog?
Great fun today, but ZERO tripped me up.

Wimbledon is nearing its conclusion. Where is Courtier this year?

By: Ernie

Ernie — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:16:56 +0000

Re 2D
I saw this as (b)ack splitting (parts) hers (of female)

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:05:07 +0000

Sorry I should have called you Loroso here shouldn’t I? Thank you Dean.

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:04:23 +0000

Superb quality stuff indeed. Got it all except 20a. Thanks to Anax and Jed too.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:39:40 +0000

Oops, did I say Ringo?
Many many apologies, Jed!!

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:36:20 +0000

Not so very long ago, I said in another place that Anax (and the other one starting with Ana) were leading the market in creating original anagrams. Well, the ones at the top and the bottom are stunning examples of it.
But, dear Loroso, I fear you don’t feel like a “market leader” nowadays …..

This puzzle was a real treat even if I failed on two entries: like others on ZERO (which is just fab) and ECARDINATE (to which even online resources were immune).

I made life harder by entering CROP at 18ac, but the splendid 8d was there to correct me.
Although I found ENNOBLE (7d), I didn’t see what NO was replacing. Tried AI, but was perhaps too much focused on a two-letter word. In the end it was as easy as that (‘enable’).

Many thanks Ringo for tackling a crossword that was Sheer Quality.

(happily it was like that, as I copied the grid completely by hand on a piece of paper because I do not have a printer at hand – at last, something I share with RCW (at another place)! )

By: Lenny

Lenny — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:09:04 +0000

Just realised that I have made my usual one mistake with Loroso having Osmameter instead of Osmometer