Comments on: Financial Times 14,093 – Dante

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:38:52 +0000

I always like to start to at the beginning so 1d was confidently entered as Hobson.
For 9a B strings was fine by me.
Then the problems srarted …
Couldn’t get
22d, 25a/25d, 26a (too clever for me), 27a

Just one query why g on 9a? Do violins not have many notes played on that string or do they just not have them at all (I’m not musical)

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:09:56 +0000

Thanks, POS.
Typo now corrected.

By: John Newman

John Newman — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:47:20 +0000

Thanks Sil.
A couple of these I didn’t get. Unlike you I like the cryptic clues. I stick to Cincinnus and Dante and occasionally Mudd, so I like Dante’s humour as a variation to the clinical style of the others. But in this puzzle I don’t like INDIRECT and SWELL. I agree with you about GIST. A good clue in which I simply did not see the hidden word.

By: POS

POS — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:12:40 +0000

Sil, I think 18D should be “proceeds”. Otherwise good blog

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:23:13 +0000

Hmm the Saturday prize is missing…

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:20:14 +0000

(C)DDs are the bane of my solving life especially when one or both is obscure and there looks like wordplay, Dante/Rufus specialises in these alas. Letter opener=Dear/SirAlpha?

Give me Io anyday, ok perhaps not.

Thanks Sil.