Comments on: Financial Times 14,099 – Crux

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:57:36 +0000

19d Surely partied is pronounced par teed (as in golf ball) and parted is pronounced par (as in golf) and ted as in Ted Heath?

How can they be the same?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:00:33 +0000

Many thanks Sil and Crux and particularly for introducing me to Harriette Wilson.

Having had a sheltered upbringing, your revelations caused me to faint.

Luckily, Larry my butler had some smelling salts handy or who knows what would have happened?

By: scchua

scchua — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:29:13 +0000

Thanks Sil and Crux.
PARTIED was the last one in, as like you, I had doubts about the dodgy homophone.
For 11a ILL AT EASE, I took “at ease” = relax, as in the parade ground command (shortened from “stand at ease”), the exclamation mark indicating it’s shouted more often than not.

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:38:29 +0000

Notorious things homophones Sil as we know…

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:33:20 +0000

Yes, flash, but that doesn’t really sound like ‘partied’, does it?

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:30:40 +0000

Hi Sil surely 19d is just “parted”