Financial Times 15,825 by WANDERER

15 comments on “Financial Times 15,825 by WANDERER”

1. the nina helped me twig nettle but i was looking for an oxygen as i was getting thirsty. had to settle for a beer.

2. 23 dartboard

3. Thanks for a great blog, Turbolegs and for another great puzzle, Wanderer.

   My favourites today were HENCHMAN [I can’t see anything amiss with your parsing, Turbolegs], NOBILITY, MONASTIC and HANG.

   Thanks for the dartboard explanation, Dis @2.

   Most enjoyable – thanks again, Wanderer.

4. Put me down as another who missed the dartboard (as I often did decades ago when I tried the game). I thought your explanation, Turbolegs, couldn’t be correct but was brilliant in its ingenuity.

   I was trying to parse BEETLE for 27a for some time until I spotted the Nina and then, like copmus twigged the answer.

5. Thanks Wanderer and Turbolegs

   Does 27 really work? I can see NET = CATCH and CAUGHT = NETTED, but I’m struggling with NET = CAUGHT.

6. Same here.

7. Thanks both.

   Did anyone else grate at DEERS as the plural of DEER? Its use nowadays must be pretty rare and commonly regarded as incorrect.

8. Bracoman @7

   I didn’t read it as a plural but parsed it as DEER’S KIN.

9. Thanks Gaufrid. All is clear now.

10. So. no answer to Simon S’s question @5?

11. Thanks to Wanderer and Turbolegs. EIGHTEEN  defeated me, so I had trouble with the SW corner, but I enjoyed the rest of this puzzle.

12. ACD, you enjoyed the rest of the puzzle (including 27ac)?

    So you might perhaps be the one to explain 27ac to Simon and me then?

13. I guess, from the fish’s point of view, NET then LTE can be viewed as caught then let loose. Best I can come up with but not entirely satisfying.

14. Thanks Wanderer & Turbolegs.

    This is a companion to Wanderer’s FT 15,808 puzzle that filled the outer columns of the same grid with the symbol for Hydrogen.

    In 27 across, caught is presumably just a misprint, and the clue should be something like:

    Bug — catch then let loose (6)

15. Thanks Wanderer and Turbolegs
    A quicker solve than normal for this setter – less haste and more care may have saved me from not re-checking my not fully parsed BEETLE at 26a though ! Tend not to think of this setter with themes or ninas so didn’t look – which as others experienced could have saved the error.
    Don’t think that there is any feasible explanation for ‘caught’ = NET – put it down as one that got through the editor’s ‘sense of tense net’ !
    Interesting take on the Cockney slang by TL to mean plate – always had it as China = ‘china plate’ that is slang for MATE.
    Liked the construction of both the adjacent 9ana 10 across clues.
    DYKE, as a watercourse which I didn’t know until looking it up, was my last in.

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