Comments on: Financial Times 14118 Sleuth

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:29:55 +0000

[[Right you are, Robi. Well done to you and Pelham.]]

By: Robi

Robi — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:27:29 +0000

[[The climax of the 1999 film ENTRAPment was filmed at the skybridge of the Petronas Towers]]

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:19:42 +0000

Hi Pelham, glad to hear from you after quite some time.

[[You're right about the third picture.]]

By: Robi

Robi — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:17:24 +0000

Entertaining puzzle from Sleuth.

Thanks scchua for the nice pictorial blog; I particularly liked NOTEBOOK and RICOCHET.

[[#1 is Denzel Washington who appeared in RICOCHET in 1991.
#2 are the twin Petronas Towers that used to be the tallest buildings in the world, but no longer. I haven't yet established the link.
#3 is as Pelham Barton @4 - the 'hurricane' smoking one.]]

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:08:35 +0000

Thanks Sleuth for an entertaining puzzle and scchua for the blog.

My favourite clue was 12ac. Mind you, I would say “I prefer the paper version”.

I thought “scribbled” at 5dn was a very good anagram lead. I was less happy with “Militant” at 11ac. The nearest meaning I could find is “using violence”, but the link “militant” = “using violence” = “change the order of the letters” is not close enough for me to regard it as satisfactory.

[[The third picture is of someone who was world champion at an event whose sponsor is the answer to one of the clues.]]

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:34:11 +0000

I raced happily through this down to the last four, then got stuck. I’d not have got ‘appeal’ = ‘sa’, ‘a lot of wit’ = ‘sal’ or ‘decorative work’ = ‘crochet’, so I’m glad I wasted no more time and looked at your blog – for which thank you, scchua.

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:11:42 +0000

Thanks hu@1, you’re right. I’ll amend blog. I had some misgiving about my explanation in the first place.

By: hu

hu — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:05:11 +0000

14A I took it as:

Type = sort
besetting = containing
hotel = h
venues frequented by performers = circuit
electrical problem = definition