Comments on: Financial Times 14,131 by Cinephile

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:29:22 +0000

PaulB
Re #19. No need to re-submit as I have recovered the original.

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:09:25 +0000

PaulB – I have accidentally deleted your comment on this blog. Please re-submit if you are still reading this. My apologies, PeeDee.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:16:03 +0000

It’s frustrating to be denied surety. Thing with Araucaria is, much of the time, if you get it, you’re in. Bye bye otherwise, until the blog’s up.

By: JollySwagman

JollySwagman — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:57:18 +0000

Thanks both – very enjoyable.

Went with the LOVErs at 4d but only by focussing on “nothing” first. Lots of songs and poems hint at the rest but none all that specifically. I suppose it’s only like “time” being an “enemy” but not so good in such a short clue with nothing else to nail it down with. Prolly other candidates have equally valid arguments. Seen the soln now – turns out it’s right.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:48:55 +0000

Thanks Cinephile and PeeDee. Mostly enjoyable but 4d foxed me – those cursed 4-letter words! My attempt was “sole”, which touched the “all” aspect, but I couldn’t really make sense of it otherwise. These short clues and answers seem to work like tie-breakers – great if you know them (they jump out at you) but impossible otherwise.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:10:43 +0000

When I saw the clue for 4d, I thought that must be a special one.
Unlike some others (Richard @13, for example) I liked it very much.
LOVE = “nothing” was clear enough, as was (for me) “LOVE Is All”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oADfmYQWmW8

ONE ACROSS (9ac) was my first entry as I remembered a similar clue by Araucaria.
As others (perhaps) said, very enjoyable puzzle.

Thanks PeeDee, especially for the explanation of 17d.

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:00:12 +0000

Re 4d
When Auden said

“He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight…”,

I suppose he meant he was his love? I suppose there are a lot of cases of love being seen as a kind of plenitude – e.g. Plato’s Symposium – or as all-pervading. I think that’s what I was banking on anyway, when I filled it in – in ink but rather faintly. (Love as “all or nothing” might make poetic sense too, but then we’d be into “double duty”…)

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:52:40 +0000

OK, I’ll accept “love” for 4D, in the sense that “love is everything.” But it’s not a good clue, not up to the rest of this terrific puzzle. It would have been better if the clue had been “Hear all or nothing,” which would have given us “hole,” which is more fun.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:29:31 +0000

PS
The Heraldry Society in its list of colours has Tenne/Orange in addition to those given in Brewer’s. See:
http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/blazoning/brief_multilingual_glossary_of_heraldic_terms.htm

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:16:04 +0000

Hi Bryan, Wikipedia did list others including Murrey, Sanguine and Tenne (Tawny), but classes them as ‘heraldic stains’ rather than ‘heraldic colours’. Seemingly they are different.

Whether this is correct, and if Cinephine is deliberately avoiding them for that reason I really havn’t a clue as I know nothing about heraldry.