Financial Times 13,935 / Jason
Posted by Gaufrid on February 23rd, 2012
Work commitments have prevented Ringo from blogging today. I hadn’t intended to solve this puzzle, and certainly hadn’t allowed any time for writing this post, so I have had to limit my input to an analysis of the clues and will leave others to comment on the puzzle itself.
| Across | ||
| 1 | CHEMIST | HEM (edge) IS in CT (court) |
| 5 | ACCEPT | ACT (sketch) around CEP (mushroom) |
| 8 | SMALL BEER | double def. |
| 9 | TRAMP | TRAM (city vehicle) P (power) |
| 11 | DRIFT | [roun]D RIFT (break) |
| 12 | PEPPERONI | PEER (look) around PP (pages) ON (about) I (one) |
| 13 | SUNDRESS | SUN (start of week) DRESS (clobber) |
| 15 | GRAPPA | GRA[s]P (understand) PA (dad) |
| 17 | EVINCE | [th]E VINCE (Cable) |
| 19 | UNCLOTHE | UN (peacekeepers) CLOT (set) HE (high explosive) |
| 22 | SOFT PEDAL | anagram (frightfully) of DATES FLOP |
| 23 | AMBLE | M (Monsieur) in ABLE (fit) |
| 24 | RINSE | RISE (get up) around N (noon) |
| 25 | INSIDE JOB | INSIDE (locked up) JOB (book {of the Bible}) |
| 26 | MYRTLE | anagram (entwined) of TRY ELM |
| 27 | MANAGER | A (answer) in MANGER (crib) |
| Down | ||
| 1 | CASH DISPENSER | anagram (foreign) of PRINCESS HEADS |
| 2 | ELATION | [r]ELATION (sister, say, runs away) |
| 3 | ISLET | homophone (is said) of ‘eyelet’ (small hole for peeping) |
| 4 | TRESPASS | SPAS (spring resorts) in TRES (France most) |
| 5 | ABRUPT | A B (British) RU (game {Rugby Union}) PT (point) |
| 6 | CATHEDRAL | anagram (extraordinary) of CARTEL HAD |
| 7 | PEA SOUP | hidden in ‘hoPE AS OU Proposes’ |
| 10 | PRIVATE MEMBER | double def. |
| 14 | RECIPIENT | anagram (is altered) of NET PRICE I |
| 16 | UNCLE SAM | cryptic def. – see Wikipedia |
| 18 | INFANCY | N (northern) FAN (supporter) in ICY (chilling) |
| 20 | TOBY JUG | cryptic def. – a beer mug or jug typically in the form of a stout seated man wearing a three-cornered hat and smoking a pipe. |
| 21 | ADMIRE | DA (attorney) reversed (rising) MIRE (a sticky situation) |
| 23 | ADD-ON | A D (daughter) DON (senior collegian) |
February 23rd, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Thanks Jason for a nice gentle puzzle and Gaufrid for blogging it. Two clues I particularly enjoyed were 19ac and 1dn.
June 9th, 2012 at 11:27 am
Bit of poetic licence in 4dn as “most” approximates to PLUS. “very” would be more accurate for TRÈS.
But then the clue might need to read:
“Spring resorts enter France very illegally”