Financial Times 16,386 by JULIUS

The usual entertaining and varied mix from Julius. Thank you.

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1 GRETA GARBO Actor Bogart shaking with rage (5,5)
anagram (shaking) of BOGART with RAGE
6 EMIL Continental chap seen in vermeille every now and again (4)
every other letter (now and again) of vErMeIlLe
9 REDEPLOYED Embarrassed editor hiding base gambit assigned elsewhere (10)
RED (embarrassed) ED (editor) contains (hiding) E (e, base of natural logarithm) PLOY (gambit)
10 SNUB Ignore small Greek character… bye! (4)
S (small) NU (Greek character) B (bye, a non-hit score in cricket)
12 BODICE RIPPER Sexually explicit British epic period novel Romeo? (6,6)
anagram (novel) of B (British) EPIC PERIOD then R (romeo, phonetic alphabet)
15 EAST COAST Each way price laid about a side of Great Britain? (4,5)
EA (each) ST (street, way) COST (price) contains (laid about) A
17 HELOT He’s enthralled by the lottery (5)
found inside (enthralled by) tHE LOTtery – a slave
18 ROOTS Test batsman, opener from Somerset, becomes established (5)
ROOT (Joe Root, test batsman) then first letter (opener) from Somerset
19 AIR GUITAR Instrument invented by plucky performer? (3,6)
cryptic definition
20 ACTION REPLAY Reprise Cleopatra in new year (6,6)
anagram (new) of CLEOPATRA IN then Y (year)
24 KIEV Capital that is outwardly grand. Very (4)
IE (that is) inside (outwardly has…) K (one thousand, grand) V (very)
25 OFF BALANCE Somewhat unstable, Oscar leaves money in the bank (3,7)
O (oscar, phonetic alphabet) FF (following pages, leaves) BALANCE (money in the bank)
26 TATE Going around French State Gallery (4)
ETAT (state, French) reversed (going round)
27 STROKE PLAY Some golf kept royals busy (6,4)
anagram (busy) of KEPT ROYALS
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1 GORY Bloody good men – last in infantry (4)
G (good) OR (other ranks, men) then infantrY (last letter in)
2 ENDS Puts a stop to English nudist regularly getting stripped (4)
E (English) then NuDiSt (every other letter, regularly getting stripped)
3 APPROACH SHOT A good one might make chap shoot par! (8,4)
anagram (might make) CHAP SHOOT PAR – read the definition as: a good one (the solution) might make…
4 AIOLI Top quality oil stirred into dressing (5)
AI (a1, top quality) then anagram (stirred) of OIL
5 BEEFEATER Yeoman’s ale containing iron consumed (9)
BEER (ale) containing FE (iron) ATE (consumed)
7 MANIPULATE Met Al up in Ambleside about upcoming work (10)
anagram (about) of MET UP AL IN Amble (side, one edge of) – I’m not sure how upcoming fits in found reversed (upcoming) inside (with…about) mET AL UP IN AMbleside
8 LABORATORY Research facility in which question of political leaning is asked? (10)
LAB OR A TORY (question of political leaning)
11 WITHOUT A CLUE Morse completely stumped, unable to start the crossword (7,1,4)
double cryptic definition – fictional detective Inspector Morse was a keen crossword solver
13 BEAR MARKET Identify gamble covering weak investment climate (4,6)
EARMARK (identify) inside (with…covering) BET (gamble)
14 ASSORTMENT Sanction old registered trademark “Bottled Potpourri” (10)
ASSENT (sanction) contains (…bottled) O (old) RTM (registered trade mark)
16 AT A PROFIT Throw up some confetti for Pat Archer, making hay (2,1,6)
found reversed (throw up) inside (some) congetTI FOR PAT Archer
21 PABLO Spanish chap game to get infusion of different blood type? (5)
PoLO (game) with O replaced with AB (getting infusion of different blood type)
22 ANIL Indigo metal block (5 down) (4)
ANvIL (metal block) missing (down) V (5)
23 DEFY Stand up to democratically elected Free Yemen leaders (4)
leading letters of Democratically Elected Free Yemen

 

15 comments on “Financial Times 16,386 by JULIUS”

  1. thanks PD and J — I misled myself into parsing 25a OFF BALANCE as [o]OFF,BALANCE with OOFF being another version of OOF=money.  Oh well.  Didn’t see leaves=pages=ff.

  2. Thanks Julius and PeeDee

    Enjoyable solve as usual from this setter and found it not quite as hard as he can be.  Seemed to be a bit of sport floating around in the answers but nothing connecting to a theme.

    Was another who didn’t see the FF (pages) at 25 but everything else was able to be parsed.

    Finished down the bottom with ANIL, ACTION REPLAY and the tricky to parse PABLO the last one in.

  3. No, absolutely not. If ff (following sections,pages, lines, whatever is deemed appropriate by the educated reader) = leaves, then I give up.

    I prefer the ooff option, but only one man knows

  4. Thanks PeeDee for your blog and thanks too to those who have commented.

    In Chambers, p=page and pp=pages. Although a folio is a leaf, it’s probably a bit of a stretch to make f=folio ff=folios=leaves.

    I’m sorry that this has so exercised Dansar that s/he is contemplating taking up sudoku or decoupage and I hope that a solution can be found. Thoughts with you, etc.

    best wishes to all, Rob/Julius

  5. Dansar @9, Julius @10

    What’s the problem? From Chambers:

    ff – 2. Folios (printing)

    folio
    noun (pl folios)

    1. A leaf (two back-to-back pages) of a book
    2. A leaf of paper in a manuscript, numbered on the front only and blank on the verso

  6. Thank you Gaufrid @12

    Folios works much better. I should have seen that Julius gave that parsing @10 but I was too busy looking up “decoupage” to notice.

  7. Thank you Julius, PeeDee and others!

    I am so ignorant of finances that I did not know BEAR MARKET: apparently it is so called because a bear attacks by going down on its paws (whereas a BULL MARKET is so called because the bull attacks by raising its horns.

    If I can be so bold, I think to have SHOT as part of an anagram that includes SHOOT is not very elegant.

    On the other hand, I thought that 8d was great!

     

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