Comments on: Financial Times 14,125 by Monk http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/10/03/financial-times-14125-by-monk/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 19:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/10/03/financial-times-14125-by-monk/#comment-207027 Sil van den Hoek Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:19:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49697#comment-207027 Only yesterday (in Neo’s blog) rowland said “the FT is very good these days, I think”. I fully agree. Cinephile, Dante and Cincinnus are what they are, but some setters who publish in other broadsheets too downgrade a bit for the FT and – how paradoxically – become perhaps even more attractive here (Redshank, Loroso, Neo, Alberich, to name a few).
But Monk is Monk – can’t see much difference with his Indy outings.

Another cracking puzzle.
Nice to see Matt Johnson’s The The get a mention somewhere around the perimeter.
And a nice nod to Pink Floyd in 3d too!

Yesterday, Neo replied to my query on abbreviations: “D for daughter or daughters is standard, as is S for son or sons, and both are tolerated even by The Times, notoriously choosy as it is about single-letter indication (to protect solvers from the REALLY REALLY obscure stuff, I think: take = R not allowed, are = A not allowed &c)”.
And while I am still not convinced by D for Daughters (plural), see what happened today: A for ‘are’ – I like it!

Thanks PeeDee.
Even more thanks to Monk.

]]> By: Richard http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/10/03/financial-times-14125-by-monk/#comment-206990 Richard Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:38:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49697#comment-206990 Very well done and thanks for the blog, PeeDee

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/10/03/financial-times-14125-by-monk/#comment-206988 nmsindy Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:33:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49697#comment-206988 I think you have found the theme, Pee Dee, well-known two-word phrases that begin with THE, I’d think.

]]> By: crypticsue http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/10/03/financial-times-14125-by-monk/#comment-206986 crypticsue Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:24:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49697#comment-206986 Very very tough indeed. If they were waiting for me to blog it….!!

Thanks to Monk for making me work harder than on any of today’s other cryptics and to the wonderful PeeDee for sorting it all out for us.

]]> By: Conrad Cork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/10/03/financial-times-14125-by-monk/#comment-206985 Conrad Cork Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:17:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49697#comment-206985 Can’t help with the embedded theme, but The Oaks is a flat race held at Epsom, and I think that that is more likely than a country pub.

Hope the Prof will drop by to assist if no-one else elaborates. Tough indeed. Don’t know how you managed PeeDee:just glad I didn’t have to blog it.

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