Comments on: Financial Times 14,181 by Falcon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/12/07/financial-times-14181-by-falcon/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 21:05:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/12/07/financial-times-14181-by-falcon/#comment-216982 scchua Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:25:29 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=52316#comment-216982 Thanks Jed and Falcon.
As Pelham says, it doesn’t have to be hard to be enjoyable (or is that what the bishop said?). I was another one who entered “bravest” until 29a set me right. And you can get one at M&S, cf http://www.marksandspencer.com/M-S-Woman-Secret-Support/dp/B000M5F5EO

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/12/07/financial-times-14181-by-falcon/#comment-216973 Pelham Barton Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:43:24 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=52316#comment-216973 Thanks Falcon for a pleasantly straightforward puzzle and Jed for the blog. To me this is an excellent example of the sort of puzzle where clues do not have to be difficult to be enjoyable.

My usual minor gripe about this grid: when I had solved half the clues, I only had two letters to take me forward. In this case, the straightforward nature of the clues (and in particular 14dn given the initial O) was sufficient compensation.

20dn: I originally wrote BRAVEST here. This would really only be the answer if the clue said “Pieces of underwear …”, in which case “extremely daring” would be the definition. I wondered if there might be a piece of underwear called a bra-vest, combining the functions of the separate items, but it is not in Chambers. Anyway, the correct answer fits the clue better than the wrong answer, so all is right in the world.

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