Financial Times 16,205 by WANDERER

9 comments on “Financial Times 16,205 by WANDERER”

1. Enjoyable solve – thank you Wanderer and Turbolegs

2. Yup, enjoyed this.
   Coupla points:
   In 10a, not that it matters, I don’t think ‘one’ is necessarily on double-duty: ‘who’s never arrived’ serves – just – as a stand-alone definition.
   Blyth wasn’t quite the first to circumnavigate solo. That would be Francis (later Sir Francis, knighted on the quayside) Chichester. But Chay (sic) was the first to do it non-stop.
   And, out of interest, ‘Johnny’ was for years the only word I knew for a ‘condom’, which I probably had to look up the first time I saw it. ‘Rubber’ is American: to us, a ‘rubber’ is a pencil eraser.
   Tricky chaps, words.
   But a fun puzzle, succinctly blogged, so thank you both.

3. Most enjoyable, as always – many thanks to both.

   I read 10ac as Grant @2 did.

   I had to look up LATHI once I’d uncovered it and found, in Collins, ‘a long heavy wooden stick, used as a weapon in India, esp by the police’, so that’s part of the definition – it’s redundant otherwise.

4. I parsed 8d as horse (definition) and younG Girl with inclusion indicated by the apostrophe s.

   Thanks all.

5. Rubber Johnny’s and Chay Blythe on Blue Peter – pretty much pinpoints me in a particular generation in the UK.  Great puzzle and blog, thank you both

6. Very enjoyable and repaid the effort to work out the tricky parsing for a few that could be bunged in from the def such as RUBBER STAMPS, CARNIVORE and SMELL A RAT. Some other hard ones such as the sneaky ‘in a row’ def for 26,27.

   Chay Blyth was retrieved from the memory banks somewhere, after I’d been hoping in vain there might be a ‘Chichester’ homophone. I’ll never forget the excitement when ‘Gypsy Moth IV’ went around the Horn.

   You can probably argue the toss but I thought Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail solo around the world. Anyway, Blythe, Chichester, Slocum – they were all extraordinary blokes.

   Thanks to Wanderer and Turbolegs.

7. I think Wanderer really brings something different to crosswords such as the ‘expansion’ clue ORDNANCE SURVEY, and the ‘hidden’ inclusion  GEE-GEE (I agree with Hovis on the parsing). Very refreshing! Thanks S & B.

8. Thanks Wanderer & Turbolegs

   There’s no homophone indicator but perhaps the young girl in 8 down is Gigi?

9. Thanks Wanderer and Turbolegs
   There is always a lot of substance in the puzzles of this setter … and this one had it in spades. There is always as much work in working out why as there is in worfking out what. Took ages to untangle all the S’s in 26,27.
   Finished with ORDNANCE SURVEY (with it’s clever abbreviation hint), CLUELESS (simple but tricky at tbe same time) and the sailor BLYTH homophone whom I hadn’t heard of (only knew Chichester).

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