Scotsman crossword

[galasalmon]

12 /14 across ---Any deed badly managed could still win the 9 down in 3: 49 : .48 ( 4 , 8 ) -n - y / _ a - - L - - -

9 DOWN IS imagine me taking on the Italian in a world- class Oslo race won by 12, 14, across. ( 9 )
sxth letter M

Thanks to anyone who can solve this.

[ladyalex]

Could 12/14 across be
Andy Baddeley ?
That is an anagram of any deed badly.
Still thinking about 9d

[ladyalex]

If 9 down is two words it could be DREAM MILE, which Andy Baddeley won and is held in Oslo. (I think...not a great sports person )

[ladyalex]

You would be better posting this in Quizzes and Puzzles or Crossowrds, by the way...

[gen2]

Yeas it is Andy Braddeley.

Andy Baddeley won the 'Dream Mile' in Oslo on 9th June 2008

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/insport/jun e08/andybaddeleyrevivesbritishhopes.htm

so 9d is DREAMMILE

[ladyalex]

Is dreammile one word, then , gen2 ?

[gen2]

Only problem is though that it says he did so in 3:49:38

[ladyalex]

I think we could let that go...one hundredth of a second ?

[ladyalex]

OOps , a whole tenth of a second, maybe we can't

[gen2]

I only know what it says in the article and it is two words there but the wordplay of the clue fits it

imagine = DREAM
me = ME
the Italian = IL

so dream with il inside me = dreammile

[ladyalex]

Agree that it is right, don't think the compiler is up to much if he thinks it is two words.
:-)

[gen2]

I wonder why this finished up in Adverts

[ladyalex]

You've got me, there.
The poster doesn't seem to have checked it either...after all our brain power too... :-)