Comments on: Financial Times 14064 Peto

By: scchua

scchua — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:44:35 +0000

Thanks Richard and jmac for your comments. Yes, for whatever reason(s) (it cannot be the quality of the setters), the FT comes in third after the other two dailies covered in 15sq. And no secret, I’ve got both X and Y chromosomes

By: jmac

jmac — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:11:19 +0000

On a day when Grandmaster Paul produced lots of laughs in the Guardian, and Jambazi came up with a very accomplished puzzle in the Independent, Peto also produced a lovely crossword which, as is the way with FT puzzles, has been a little ovelooked. Bravo Peto, and thanks to Scchua for his/her customary entertaining blog.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:29:52 +0000

Thanks for the very thorough blog, scchua.
I was defeated by compassion = RUTH, I’m afraid, and there were a couple of other slightly overstretched similes, I thought.

Peto also indulges in one of my personal pet hates – overuse of single letter abbreviations – Duke = d, Old = o, Republican = r, Unionist = u, new = n, book = b, member of the Conservative Party = c, Germany = g, female = f.

I did particularly like 18 & 21, though.