Financial Times 12832 / by Quark
Posted by C G Rishikesh on July 29th, 2008
Across
1 CHAIRPERSON – anag. of ‘parishioner, c’ after deleting one I from the anag. fodder
9 VACUA - CD – the very last answer for me – pl. of vacuum – ‘pump’ must be reference to a vacuum pump – anyway not a clue worth sweating over
10 MEANWHILE – anag. of ‘a new h’ in ‘mile’
11 RUDIMENTS - RU, d(I’m)ents – RU: Rugby Union – Good surface reading
13 NANNIES – The penultimate answer for me. Of course, the definition was clear from the beginning. And also the content in the c/c clue. But even now I am doubtful about the container.
20 UNEARTH - anag. of ‘run’ and ‘heat’
24 APPRAISAL – anag. of ‘paris’ in ‘a pal’ (note that here the indefinite article is part of the container but in 10 ac above it is to be overlooked)
26 TURNTABLE – anag. of ‘run battle’ – I have nostalgic memories of 78rpm records.
27 PRANG - (-s)prang – it’s a “vehicle crash” (airmen’s slang, acc. to Chambers)
28 RUT – rev. hidden in ‘lecTURer’, ‘contribution’ being the hidden signal
29 DERANGEMENT – anag. of ‘need garment’ – Woe unto you if you thought ‘garment torn’ was anag fodder, ‘in disturbance’ was the anag. signal and ‘need’ was the def.
Down
1, 21 COVERING LETTER – two def. – I put down the second word of the phrase first. It is by no means a difficult clue, yet I did not get the first word as quickly as I should have got. With C as the first letter, I had to banish ‘circular’ [letter] from my mind before, well, getting round to ‘covering’.
4 ERMINES – ‘min.’ in ‘eres’
5 SWANSEA – ‘sea’ (“the main”) being at the base of this Down entry is a supporter of ‘swan’ (“a bird”). Again the answer was slightly delayed because, with that final letter a in the answer word and the word ‘supporter’ in the clue, I was trying to fit in a bra (size 42 C).
7 APIARY - anag. of ‘pair’ in ‘ay’ (“yes”)
8, 17 SEEING THE LIGHT – two def. – Here I got the first and second words of the phrase quickly enough but not the third – The first def. is new to me.
16 DRESSAGE – dress, age
19 CHAMBER - MBE in ‘char’
20 UMPTEEN – nothing cryptic about this clue
22 CLARET - anag. of ‘article’ after deleting I
25 AMPLE - (-s)ample
July 29th, 2008 at 10:13 am
The paper version has it as one of Quark’s puzzles.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Sorry. That was my mistake. I am making amends.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:33 am
13a “But even now I am doubtful about the container”
I have this as ‘ANNIE’ (girl) in ‘NS’ (certain extremes, ie North and South).
July 29th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Thanks, Geoff. I was looking for the extremes of a certain word!
July 29th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Yes, on the first run though I started off with CN for ‘certain extremes’ but quickly had to discount it once 1d was in.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:53 am
On reflection, the ‘certain extremes’ could refer to the first and last letters of ‘nurses’. I am now unsure as to Quark’s intention here.