Comments on: Financial Times 14223 Jason

By: scchua

scchua — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:45:58 +0000

Thanks Mirlan, typos now corrected.

By: Mirlan

Mirlan — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:10:29 +0000

A couple of small typos:
In 22a “Record” should be underlined, as it’s the straight definition.
In 27a “with” must be excluded when collecting initial letters.

By: ernie

ernie — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:45:24 +0000

Re 20D
I wondered why ‘she’ was in the clue.
Could Jason be referring to rambler as a rambling rose?
And rose may be Rose (she).
Just a thought.

Thanks Scchua.

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:19:18 +0000

[[Yes, that was Eddie the Eagle, ski jumper of sorts, and sometimes it's not always true that only winners are remembered. And the link was the 2 Penguins - Danny De Vito in his make-up would have been a giveaway, but not so much with Burgess Meredith, I thought. I've added links under the pictures for the answer to #3.]]

By: NormanLinFrance

NormanLinFrance — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:36:04 +0000

[[Eddie the Eagle jumping his way to half the distance of anyone else and glory, the Coastguard or Air-Sea Rescue setting course for the lee shore and 2 Penguins, Burgess Meredith in character, Danny de Vito not, so maybe another link I've not spotted]]

By: jmac

jmac — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:38:02 +0000

I thought 20d was a double definition with “rambling on and on” referring to talking aimlessly for a long time, as well as the trekking sense. thanks Jason and Scchua

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:31:34 +0000

A nice easy puzzle but very enjoyable. I have been on several rambles that turned out to be treks so didn’t see anything particularly wrong with the wordplay of 20d.

Thanks to scchua and Jason too.

By: mike04

mike04 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:14:38 +0000

Thanks for a splendid blog, scchua.
Thanks too, to Jason, for a nice easy puzzle today. I liked the long word anagram
in the long clue down.

A trek is usually made on foot. It’s a long, arduous journey and you have to keep going
on and on. So I thought that ‘on and on’ was probably implied for the cryptic definition.