Comments on: Financial Times 14,063 – Crux http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/08/02/financial-times-14063-crux/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 23:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jmac http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/08/02/financial-times-14063-crux/#comment-199754 jmac Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:22:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47228#comment-199754 Hi Sil,

I took 2dn as a double definition: Spare tyre being both a car tyre and spreading waist; rolls (of fat)& Rolls (the car) both being pronounced the same, hence “we’re told”.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/08/02/financial-times-14063-crux/#comment-199714 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:22:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47228#comment-199714 Rishi @3, I do not feel any need to justify ARTSHOUSE or ARTHOUSES. That early entry was purely My Mistake, and – as I read between your lines – Crux himself has really nothing to do with it.
That said, personally, I find it a kind of “interesting” mistake, just like 15ac.

By the way, anyone out there who can say more about 2d?

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/08/02/financial-times-14063-crux/#comment-199694 Bamberger Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:08:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47228#comment-199694 Failed on 6d,12a,15a,17d& 28a. No particular reasons -just too good for me.

]]> By: Bryan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/08/02/financial-times-14063-crux/#comment-199691 Bryan Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:52:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47228#comment-199691 Many thanks Sil and Crux

Silly Me (Yes a pun is intended), I couldn’t spell EL ALAMEIN correctly either!

I had it as El Alamain which then screwed me up for 15a.

]]> By: Rishi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/08/02/financial-times-14063-crux/#comment-199685 Rishi Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:46:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47228#comment-199685 Granting that some of our early hazards at answers might be tentatives -

if the setter had the auctioneers in mind, the first word in the clue would have been Christie’s, not Christie.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/08/02/financial-times-14063-crux/#comment-199680 Sil van den Hoek Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:45:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47228#comment-199680 As you say, flashling, ARTHOUSE (which is a cinema) – not ARTSHOUSE. So it was wrong anyway.
Still, my idea was not that silly: see eg http://www.artshouse.co.uk

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/08/02/financial-times-14063-crux/#comment-199679 flashling Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:36:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47228#comment-199679 Hi Sil, Arthouse, ouch, that’s really unlucky and unlike some setters can’t believe Crux realised or intended two viable answers here.

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