Comments on: Financial Times 14106 Jason

By: scchua

scchua — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:46:11 +0000

Hi Jen@5, it’s as mike04 says. Apologies for my typo (left out “ludicrous”) in my explanation, which led to the confusion. It should have read:
Anagram of(“this could be” being the indicator) LUDICROUS plus(“involving”) I…….
with the wordplay and defn. intertwined.

By: mike04

mike04 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:47:39 +0000

Hello Jen.

This is one of these ‘Read it again’ clues.
The key to this particular clue is the word “this”, the answer, RIDICULOUS.

Read it again:
Involving one RIDICULOUS could be ludicrous (10)

This means that
RIDICULOUS could be constructed by adding I to an anagram of the letters
of the word LUDICROUS.

I hope this helps!

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:52:13 +0000

I’m sure I’m overlooking something obvious, but I am hopelessly baffled by 3 down. I see the anagram of could, and the i for one, but that leaves RIUS, yes? I know we’re missing something, but if anyone has time to chip in an explanation, it would be appreciated. Love the blog and thank you for all the hard work.

By: scchua

scchua — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:36:11 +0000

Thanks for your comments, especially verbose@3 – I’ve corrected my error.

By: verbose

verbose — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:55:07 +0000

Thanks scchua. I couldn’t get 16, and couldn’t parse 25 and 28, but your blog explains all. Perhaps this ought to be under “FT” rather than “Uncategorized”? I found it quite by accident after wondering why no solution had been posted to this puzzle.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:07:50 +0000

Thanks for the blog, scchua. I’m afraid I couldn’t understand the solution to 25, either.
I also fell foul of 7 – ‘should be felt’ = MAT was beyond me.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:26:11 +0000

Thanks for the blog, scchua. I’m glad you found it not too taxing. I found 16 & 25 hopelessly obscure, I’m afraid.