Comments on: Financial Times 14,044 by Cincinnus

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By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:58:09 +0000

Wil, While I am unable to find a dictionary definition that clearly supports the acceptability of ‘Central Park’ in the context, it does not feel wrong to me. By contrast, having ‘first rhubarb’ clue R feels very wrong.

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:40:19 +0000

I mean letter, not word, of course.

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:39:23 +0000

Good crossword as usual from Cincinnus. One quibble though, with 6ac: Central Park is not the centre of park (Park centrally is). Almost as bad as those people who clue the first word of say rhubarb as ‘first rhubarb’.

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:56:07 +0000

Hi John, Yes, I agree that 7D is poor.

By: John Newman

John Newman — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:59:36 +0000

Thanks Pete. Never did get ashy. Why on earth does someone have to coin a word like this when we have the perfectly good ashen?

7D is a poor clue isn’t it? 8D makes up for it.

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:31:07 +0000

To mug up is a familiar expression in the UK. I’ve got an exam tomorrow so I’ll have to mug up on Tudor kings.

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:32:29 +0000

Hi Rishi, Thanks for the gen on ‘mug up’.

I am very familiar with the expression “to rain cats and dogs”; it was in common use in Britain in my younger days. I don’t know if it is so well known these days.

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:22:33 +0000

“Mug up” in the sense of “to study hard”, rather memorise just before an exam, is quite common in India. People speaking in local languages would use the phrase.

I don’t know if people in the UK (or the US) would use expressions such as “to rain cats and dogs” in everyday conversation but in India people with moderate education would.

I think that a generation going back to the time when the British were here must have heard the phrases. These have got stuck.