Comments on: Financial Times 14136 Phssthpok

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:04:38 +0000

Thanks mike04 and Wanderer resp.
Re 28a you may be right that’s what setter intended, making it a double defn.
[[You're right about the NINJAs. I'm adding a link below the pics for the anwers to #1 and 5, though your answer is another possibility I had not thought of.]]

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:28:56 +0000

Thanks Phssthpok for a very enjoyable crossword, and scchua for the blog.

For once, I have got at least some of your picture quiz. Teenage mutant NINJA turtles is the theme, namely Leonardo (picture 2), Donatello (4), Michelangelo (6) and, I suspect, Raphael (3). I would guess picture 1, from Good Morning Vietnam, gives us AWAKENING. Stumped by 5.

By: mike04

mike04 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:18:14 +0000

Many thanks for your helpful blog, scchua. For me, the SW corner was the trickiest!

28ac: ‘organic’ and ‘essential’ can both mean ‘fundamental’ according to the dictionaries.
They give ‘organic law’ as an example of the usage.