Comments on: Financial Times no.14,054 by ORENSE http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-no-14054-by-orense/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-no-14054-by-orense/#comment-197835 Pelham Barton Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:24:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46487#comment-197835 Thanks Orense for a generally enjoyable puzzle and Ringo for the blog. Some very nice surfaces, notably 25ac.

10ac: Something has clearly gone wrong with this clue. I cannot find HACKS = SAWS in any of Chambers 1988 or 2008 or Collins 2000, and cannot accept that you can get it from hacksaw.

20ac/6dn: I was not happy with either of these clues. The comma in 20ac just about pushes us the right way, but 6dn is completely ambiguous without the checking letter T. To make matters worse, the double letter in the middle of each answer means that only one of the two checked letters is any help in deciding which word to enter. As it happens, I had the relevant checked letter before reading each of the clues, but that does not justify them.

16dn: “working” = “on” might just give us the link to solve a difficulty that many of us had with yesterday’s FT puzzle.

]]> By: Ernie http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/12/financial-times-no-14054-by-orense/#comment-197823 Ernie Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:27:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46487#comment-197823 re 10A ‘Understood’ does indeed appear redundant as the clue works perfectly well without it even though it could be interpreted as saw. Maybe setter just changed his mind and forgot to delete it. I see that the clue for 14A also starts with ‘understood’ so maybe it is just a typo.

Thanks Ringo for the blog

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