Comments on: Financial Times 14,220 by Bradman

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:47:48 +0000

Thanks Bradman for a pleasant puzzle and Jed for the blog, especially for 25ac which I had taken as simply a cryptic definition.

I have commented (many times) before on my dislike of grids which nearly split in half. Here the long answer 2/23dn gives an extra link between the two sides, which compensates sufficiently.

By: mike04

mike04 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:58:53 +0000

Sorry, in the first post I meant to write DIA.
In 4dn, Bradman uses ‘normal’ rather than ‘average’. For our ancestors on the African plains and for most of humanity since then? Maybe 33 inches is fairly close to the mark!
Mike.

By: mike04

mike04 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:34:57 +0000

Thanks for the blog, Jed.
… and, as always from the Don, enjoyably educational! Thanks, Bradman.

In a couple of clues my parsing was a little different:
1ac: I took the definition as ‘type prominently visible’.
24ac: I thought ‘on account of’ was probably being used for the surface reading only,
with ‘star’ = ACE and ‘help after reverse’ = DAI.