Comments on: Financial Times 14,045 – Dante http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/#comment-197935 flashling Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:24:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46070#comment-197935 oops I meant to type firedog – sorry about that.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/#comment-197929 Sil van den Hoek Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:08:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46070#comment-197929 John, I wasn’t happy with 14ac and 7d either.
In my blog I have tried to justify ‘said’='observed’ with a dictionary at hand, but of course ‘seen’ would have been the obvious choice.
Re currency/current: this felt wrong (too). Therefore I had to give it a little twist. ‘Currency’ can be ‘circulation’, and ‘circulation’ perhaps be ‘stream’ (think air), although that doesn’t make ‘currency’ equal enough to ‘stream’, does it?

ps, forget about my post@3 – ‘andiron’ a breed of dog ….. ?? :)

]]> By: John Newman http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/#comment-197915 John Newman Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:42:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46070#comment-197915 Thanks Sil.

I didn’t get the construction for Camambert. Andiron had me stuck for a long time because it is not a breed of dog but the iron construction looks like a dog and is so called.

I have problems with two clues. 14A Observed. Don’t like SAID as a simile. I think Dante made a mistake. His clue should read “Seen to be celebrated”. And 7D. Presumably he is using currency as a noun the same as current. Which it is not.

]]> By: Rishi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/#comment-197911 Rishi Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:35:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46070#comment-197911 @flashling #4

Is the andiron also called ‘irondog’?

I thought it was called ‘firedog’. Chambers has this term but not ‘irondog’.

That dictionary gives the meaning ‘andiron’ for just the term ‘dog’ as well.

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/#comment-197897 flashling Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:13:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46070#comment-197897 Wasn’t totally happy with andiron being dog when it’s part of an open fire that logs burn on, an IRONDOG, rather trickier than you usually get with Dante / Rufus

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/#comment-197883 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:11:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46070#comment-197883 Don’t worry, Bamberger, I didn’t know the breed either.
Got it purely from the construction after which I checked it in Chambers Crossword Dictionary.
It looks like a typical crossword word as it is also AND+IRON – it must have been used that way a lot of times before, I guess.

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/#comment-197879 Bamberger Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:35:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46070#comment-197879 I couldn’t get 8a even with ?n?i?o?. If you put together three words for types of dogs of which one was made up, I’d go for andiron. Never heard of the breed.

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-14045-dante/#comment-197800 flashling Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:41:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46070#comment-197800 No problem Sil, at least Io/Nimrod/Enigmatist didn’t appear in your absence.

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