Dt Prize Gk 474

[BabsM]

Has anyone managed to complete this successfully? I wonder if there's an error (or if I've just missed something...).

13D: - Stevens, character in "To Catch a Thief" (7). The answer appears to be Frances - the checking letters fit apart from the "s" where it meets 22A...

22A: A character in "A Room with a View" (4,11): this can (surely...) only be Lucy Honeychurch - again, the checking letters (9 of them...) fit.

Is it just me...?

[dannyk13]

I have the same problem. The relevant answers are as you say Frances and Lucy Honeychurch.I will be contacting the Telegraph later today.

[BabsM]

Ah - good - not just me, then! If you've got a problem with it too, Danny, it's definitely an error!

Will be interested to know what they say...

[dannyk13]

I will post as soon as I know anything,

[dannyk13]

Contacted the Telegraph.They will e-mail me when they have sorted it out.

[murraymints]

morning Danny xx

[dannyk13]

Good morning Minty xxx

[BabsM]

Thanks, Danny. I'll be even more interested to see how they "sort it out"! Don't think I'll hold my breath...

[dannyk13]

Nor me Babs :-)

[dannyk13]

I have now received an e-mail and the explanation is that Frances should be Francie.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3FN4BgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+F.+Dodge%27s+novel+%27To+Catch+a+Thief+"francie"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEw

[BabsM]

Thanks, Danny. Couldn't open the link on the tablet but have now caught up.

Hmmm- not impressed... It's up there with "alternative spelling" - the two most depressing words to find in a crossword clue...!

[jeffreywoodham]

The clue actually says character in the novel, which is Francie, it was changed to Francis for the film.

[jeffreywoodham]

Or even Frances.