Comments on: Financial Times no.14,214 by Loroso

By: fearsome

fearsome — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:39:45 +0000

thanks Ringo and Loroso
I was well beaten by this one

By: ernie

ernie — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:50:37 +0000

I think that we need ca for circa in 5D rather than c, otherwise we are a letter short in the parsing.

There is a typo in the answer to 3D. It should be overshadow (10 letters).

VTOL was also new to me.

Thanks to Ringo and Loroso.

By: anax

anax — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:30:41 +0000

I usually offer more by way of additional comment but, far more than is the norm, the current workload is bonkers, so I’ll just say thank you all for your comments and to Ringo for a typically impressive blog.

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:08:23 +0000

@MikeC #5 Form in PROA (see todays Indy blog comments)

By: MikeC

MikeC — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:55:23 +0000

Thanks Ringo and Loroso. I was pleased to finish this enjoyable challenge. Didn’t parse 26d correctly, though, and I’m still not quite sure how 2d (PRO FORMA) works. Can anyone set me right, please?

By: shuchi

shuchi — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:04:36 +0000

Thanks Ringo. I’m endlessly amazed at Loroso’s inventiveness. Agree with Eileen’s choice of favourite clues, I thought MORE OR LESS was especially good.

After getting the hang of Loroso’s distinctive noun-verb switch trick with indicators, his puzzles don’t seem as tough as they did in the beginning! Some words/abbreviations like VTOL, RUC, RTA were new to me, thanks for explaining them.

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:14:28 +0000

I used to fondly imagine that Loroso was user-friendly Anax but I don’t think so any more. This one put up quite a fight but as others have said enjoyable and entertaining too. Some lovely clues in there in the middle of all the ‘what is he on about’ clues. Thanks Lorosoo and Ringo too.

By: mike04

mike04 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:06:02 +0000

Until the penny dropped at UNDO, I found the NW corner difficult to penetrate today.
This was certainly quite a challenge, but a most entertaining one. Thanks, Loroso.

And thanks, too, Ringo. For PRO FORMA I went for FORM contained in PROA with
‘being paid for before dispatch’ or ‘before shipping’ as the definition.

I also tried to justify LOT = box in 26dn!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:22:52 +0000

Thanks, Ringo, for the blog – especially fot DOGLEG, which I didn’t get.

Great stuff, as usual – but I wouldn’t say it was a cruise without a qualm!

Favourite clues: OVERSHADOW, MORE OR LESS and PREVIOUS, I think, among a number of close contenders.

[After getting the answer to 26dn, I tried for a minute or two to justify LOT = box. ]

Many thanks, as always, to Loroso, for a very enjoyable challenge.