Comments on: Financial Times 14,097 by Gurney

By: ernie

ernie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:01:50 +0000

for completeness
27a Chancery (court) chancer (one exploiting any opportunity) + y (end of the day)

By: Gurney

Gurney — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:43:57 +0000

Comment #3 should have had the by-line Gurney.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:41:22 +0000

Many thanks, Jed, for the excellent blog and to you and the commenters for the kind remarks. Re RATHER, I guess that the inclusion of ‘would’ might be regarded as understood in the case of ‘rather’ with “I’d rather A to B” = “I prefer A to B”.

By: flashling

flashling — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:18:12 +0000

Thanks Gurney for a nice gentle end of week puzzle, and Jed for the blog, not 9d today

By: mike04

mike04 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:15:58 +0000

No 14ac clues today! Thanks, Gurney, this was great fun.

Although not a full “& lit.”, I thought CARGO at 6dn was quite brilliant.
It’s so simple: has it been done before?

When solving, I stopped for a moment at 26ac. PREFER and RATHER are
easily interchangeable in sentences (so fine) – and yet one is only a verb
and the other is only an adverb. Does this happen often in crosswords?

In 1ac, I went for S + HAFT for ‘small handle’.