Comments on: Financial Times 14166 Phssthpok

By: rowland

rowland — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:58:58 +0000

I normally laud the FT, which is now right up there with the best I think. Certainly giving The G a good run for its money! Today’s had some annoying link words, the ‘or’ that was mentioned, and ‘goes’ just for two.

Cheers and thanks to scchua and setter.
Rowly.

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:43:27 +0000

Welcome James, to the FT category of the site. I hope you’ll keep on doing the FT – I’ve always wondered why the number of FT solvers pales in comparison to that of, say, the Guardian.

By: James

James — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:03:37 +0000

An excellent puzzle, I thought- I am trialling the FT (usually a Guardian man) and this is my favourite crossword in the week or so of my trial.

I got BASKING for 1a (parsed as “BA’s king), so ended up guessing SORT OUT for 1d. Other than that, an enjoyable and fair diversion, certainly no walk in the park, and with a lot of variety in clueing devices. Excellent.