Comments on: Financial Times 14,129 – Falcon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/10/18/financial-times-14129-falcon/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/10/18/financial-times-14129-falcon/#comment-209838 Bamberger Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:45:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=50288#comment-209838 I sat to solve this and got 1a,5a,13a,14a,18a,28a, 4d,5d,8d & 9d before coming to a grinding halt.
I knew that 12a was an anagram of canthinko but I would never have got ninotchka.
I knew that 2d was an anagram of andorraso but would never have got aaarons rod.
I knew that 6d was an anagram of orgoblinofoldwe but couldn’t get that either.
To try to make some progress I used an anagram solver and couldn’t work out why the Daily Mail’s racing tipster was being described as a mischevious sprite.Then I google and find you need Shakespearan knowledge – not fair.
Even with the extra letters I made no further progress and eagerly awaited this. Sil if you had said this was easy I would have given the game up.
20a I have never come across carol =sing. A carol as a noun yes but not as a verb.
3d never heard of it
16d I hadn’t come across candid =informal
19d never heard of it
20d I don’t think I have ever heard of money being called scratch. Is there a common phrase?
23a A rumbaba -never seen one on Wetherspoons menu.

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