Comments on: Financial Times 14,080 by Cinephile

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:29:04 +0000

Hi Wil, I suspected you might have something to say about 27ac! And I am glad you found it a good offering, as I certainly did.

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:40:53 +0000

A good offering from Cinephile I thought and I don’t have my usual quibbles, except that in 27ac I thought ‘a conjecture beginning’ for GUE{ss} was a bit weak. If it’s the first three of five letters we should surely be given more help than simply ‘beginning’? (Incidentally I also don’t like ‘with’ as a link-word but perhaps that’s just me.)

By: Pete Maclean

Pete Maclean — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:29:23 +0000

Rishi, Thanks.

Eileen, Ah I recognized neither that quote nor the significance of the ellipsis. Thank you!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:49:35 +0000

Thanks for the blog, Pete. I really enjoyed this one, too.

It’s even better than you thought: ‘[have] 18,5′ is the second line of the second verse of 28,7 etc, hence the ellipsis between the clues.

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/mikado/webopera/mk209.html

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:19:35 +0000

Re 21d

For Dis, Chambers has: “a name for Pluto, hence, the infernal world.”