Financial Times no.14,036 by HAMILTON
Posted by Ringo on June 21st, 2012
So, Hamilton, we meet again…
My nemesis from a few weeks ago is on rather more enjoyable form today, not quite having me clicking my heels with joy (it takes more than a crossword to do that on a rainy Thursday morning) but offering up a straightforwardly pleasing puzzle. Only 15ac. remains stubbornly unparseable. Perhaps it’ll come to me as I type…
ACROSS
1. TRYST Try [go] + regular letters of SiTe
4. CLOSE-KNIT Anagram of clients OK
9. BARGAIN Double definition
10. IMPREST Sounds like impressed [moved]
11. MARILYN MONROE Anagram of norma role in my, the &lit alluding to the erstwhile Norma Jean
14. ULNA In odd letters of UpLaNd Area
15. LUBRICATE Aha – it’s just a double definition, isn’t it?
18. DETRACTOR Tract [leaflet] within anagram of rode
19. USED Anagram of loudest minus the letters of lot
21. AGREE TO DIFFER Reverse clue: eager is an anagram (indicated by to differ) of agree
24. GENUINE Ingenue [young woman] with in transposed
26. ADORNED A + reversal of den [study] + rod [pole]
27. EGLANTINE Anagram of get in lane
28. THEME Hem [edge: see 23dn] within TE [as in TE Lawrence (of Arabia)]
DOWN
1. TUBE Double definition
2. YORK MINSTER Min [minute, short time] + (bring)s (benefi)t within yorker [delivery in cricket]
3. TEA URN Ea [each] within turn [go]
4. CANDLELIT Anagram of T(ed) called in
5. ONION Coronation minus the letters of actor
6. EUPHONIA Sounds like you phoney [you impostor] + a
7. NEE Hidden in juNE Eighteen-ninety-nine
8. TITLE DEEDS Anagram of detest idle
12. REASSURANCE Re [about] + ANC [African National Congress] within assure [guarantee]
13. QUADRANGLE Quad [one in four] + R [Republican] + angle [viewpoint]
16. BARRICADE BA [Bachelor of Arts, graduate] + anagram of carried
17. VALERIAN Valeri(e) [girl] + an [indefinite article]
20. EFFORT E F [two musical keys] + fort [defence establishment]
22. OBELI First letters of Once Bill Explains Linotype Ian
23. EDGE Double definition
25. NIL Hidden in reversal of deLINquent
June 21st, 2012 at 1:14 pm
My last cryptic today and one of the more straightforward offerings. Thanks to Hamilton and Ringo
June 21st, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Thanks Hamilton for an enjoyable crossword and Ringo for the blog. Favourite clue 5dn for getting a very precise cryptic indication into a good surface.
16dn: I think you need to take “graduate being” as the indicator for BA.
25dn: I think this clue would be better without the word “who”.
June 21st, 2012 at 4:12 pm
15 across is probably a double definition lubricate meaning to oil a meachnism, car engine, etc and lubricate as to bribe (grease one’s palm)
June 21st, 2012 at 10:42 pm
seeing Ms. Monroe for 2 days in a row in FT!