Comments on: Financial Times 14082 Redshank

By: scchua

scchua — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:59:09 +0000

Congratulations, grandpuzzler, you’ve done it again!

By: grandpuzzler

grandpuzzler — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:02:33 +0000

Thanks Redshank and scchua. [Catherine DeNeuve #1 and Jack Lemmon #3 were in The April Fools - 16ac. Emilio Estevez #2 is son of Martin Sheen - 7d. Barbara Feldon #4 worked for Control on Get Smart. They fought against KAOS - 23d.]

Cheers…

By: mike04

mike04 — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:14:01 +0000

It could be the Tower of London for you guys! Mike

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:09:07 +0000

And I called her “king” in my post …..

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:13:25 +0000

Sorry, Mike04, corrected now. Didn’t mean to diminish her realm.

By: mike04

mike04 — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:53:59 +0000

Many thanks, scchua.

19dn: I agree with Sil about the parsing. And could I add another little thing?
ER is the current British monarch.

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:50:02 +0000

Thanks Sil, blog now corrected.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:18:14 +0000

Another fine crossword by Redshank.
I didn’t find it very hard, but then, I’m used to his style (which of course helps).

I particularly liked 19ac, 17d (took me ages to see that it was a hidden) and a lot more!
A pity that ‘drunk’ was used twice as an anagram indicator, but it didn’t spoil the fun.

Many thanks scchua, for your exemplary blog.
I needed it for understanding 29ac.

Just one little thing. Your parsing of 19d is not completely right. It should be: J (judge) + {A (one) for ER (king) in AMERICA}.

And, yes, there it was again, some people’s favourite device ( ) in 21d: a subtraction anagram, immaculately executed.