Comments on: Financial Times 14235 Jason

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:51:32 +0000

[[Hi Andrew, well done, right on both counts. So I've got only one link to paste under the pictures.]]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:40:58 +0000

[[Ah, WM was in HOPSCOTCH]]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:37:58 +0000

[[Oops, fooled myself = #4 is actually Walter Matthau. (He does look quite like Stanley Baxter) No idea of the connection though.]]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:35:34 +0000

[[pic 1 is Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, who dropped her AITCHes before her transformation. I think #4 is the actor/comedian Stanley Baxter, whose TV spectaculars were perhaps a cornucopia of KITCSH.]]

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:30:26 +0000

[[Hi Bryan, well done for getting Astaire and Rogers right. But, pic#1 is a very much more down-to-earth creature/character. Later, I'll add links under the pictures to the answers to this and #2 & 4.]]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:44:09 +0000

Very many thanks Scchua & Jason, this was very enjoyable. [[Your 3rd Image is Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers from the 1936 film 'Follow the Fleet' in which they performed 'Let's Face the Music and Dance' Your 2nd could be Observers? Your 1st is clearly an Angel, a reference to Paradise. But you've beaten me with your 4th.]]

By: mike04

mike04 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:29:37 +0000

Thanks Jason and scchua.

I took the definition in 7dn as ‘support’ giving STAND as the solution.
‘Calm patient chap’ (saint) ST + ‘with’ AND.
However, the first word ‘calm’ does seem to be rather superfluous with this reading.

By: Rowland

Rowland — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:19:10 +0000

Agreed Mike, and the structure of the final clue is interesting too.

Cheers
Rowly.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:12:50 +0000

Thanks scchua and Jason. An enjoyable solve. I liked the image conveyed by 9a!