Comments on: Financial Times 14,143 by Cinephile

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:51:59 +0000

Thanks for the pointing out the omission Eileen.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:30:55 +0000

Thanks for being an EARLY BIRD with the blog, PeeDee. I’m afraid this was a rather LONG MARCH for me during my time OFF DUTY at lunchtime, so I ILLEGALLY looked at your blog for the answers and consoled myself with a glass of CHABLIS.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:40:06 +0000

Not difficult? I beg to differ. Thanks for the blog, though.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:23:43 +0000

Thanks for the blog, PeeDee.

Very nicely done, indeed. I particularly liked 26ac [you've accidentally left out TED] and 3,19 and 20dn.

RE 18dn: CHA = tea is an alternative spelling [used that way in today's Guardian Gordius puzzle] so the first ‘less than’ is not strictly necessary, except for the surface.

I didn’t think twice about COTE until I saw your query, thinking that it was a variation of ‘cot’ and was surprised to see that it was in both Collins and Chambers only as an animal shelter. However, my SOED gives it as ‘a cot or cottage, now dialect’. [I'm sure I've seen houses called 'The Cote].]