Comments on: Financial Times 14,105 – Dante http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/20/financial-times-14105-dante/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 09:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/20/financial-times-14105-dante/#comment-205798 Sil van den Hoek Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:15:09 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49195#comment-205798 Hi Bamberger,
5d: I immediately opted for VAMPS, but at the same time I thought it was too easy/obvious. The AMPS were already there in the clue. “A number” is frequently used by setters (Dante/Rufus and Araucaria/Cinephile, in particular) referring to Roman numbers, so do expect V,L,C,D or M [not really zillion, to choose from :) ]. Moreover, 4ac made clear that it had to be V.
As to the definition, Chambers gives us (ah well, only as the last option) “to improvise inartistically”.

In the world of classical music there are a lot of SUITEs.
Peer Gynt Suite, Suite Bergamasque and many many more.
But also in the world of pop we had one: “Suite: Judy blue eyes” (Crosby Stills and Nash, on their debut LP).

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/20/financial-times-14105-dante/#comment-205783 Bamberger Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:30:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49195#comment-205783 I couldn’t get
5a A number =five -how do you get 5 instead of the zillion others?
1d Music=suite new one on me
5d I had no idea that improvises =vamps
Thanks for the blog

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