Financial Times 16,453 by BRADMAN

16 comments on “Financial Times 16,453 by BRADMAN”

1. Thanks, Turbolegs: a wee typo in your blog — the boy in 29ac is Ed, not Ted. And thanks to the Don for a pleasant Friday breeze

2. Didn’t know HETERODOX or, typically for me, two of the place names: VALLETTA & BLOOMINGTON. All easy to get from the clues though. What is it with US singers, Johnny Cash and Johnny Paycheck – obviously obsessed with money.

   Minor error in blog for 29a. The boy is ED not TED. Thanks to S&B.

3. Crossed again.

4. Thanks Hovis and Hornbeam. I guess I was in too much of a hurry. 🙂

   Regards,

   TL

5. Thanks Turbolegs.

   Typo in the clue of 21ac? Don’t think so.

6. The crossers in 17d are all contained in verbally and I was convinced I needed an anagram of it.

   The sense of “ton” in 21a is new to me. I shall certainly bear it in mind.

7. Thanks Bradman. Missed ALMA,SHUFTI, and OYSTER but otherwise had little problem. Liked EVERT, DISTORTED, and AVIATE in particular. Thanks Turbolegs for explaining answers I got mostly from the definition and crossings like BLOOMINGTON and D-DAY.

8. Hovis@2 In addition to Johnny CASH and Johnny Paycheck you can add Eddie Money and 50 Cent to your list of US singers “obsessed with money.”

9. We didn’t find this a slog; in fact we fairly rattled through it.  Nothing really that we didn’t know, although GARNISHMENT isn’t a word we’d use very often if at all, and we were only vaguely aware of BLOOMINGTON – probably only come across it in crosswords.

   Favourites were HETERODOX and OYSTER.

   Thanks, Bradman and Turbolegs

10. Thanks to Turbolegs and Bradman

    I’m having a little trouble with 17d – shouldn’t it be “literarily” abused, or perhaps “graphically”? or are we to take it as “verbally i.e. not physically”?

11. Didn’t know HETERODOX and BLOOMINGTON, so had to Google them. Not aware GARNISHMENT was a word, but got it easily enough. Knew what a SHUFTI was, and knew TON for FASHION only from doing crosswords. Been to VALLETTA, lovely place for a holiday, but I won’t be going anywhere for quite some time.

12. I live in Chicago, but resided many years in Indiana, and went to school in Bloomington. NO ONE in Indiana, or for that matter, in the U.S. calls places in Indiana “Indianan”. It is the Hoosier state, that’s how they refer to themselves. “Where are you from?” “I’m a Hoosier.” And no, no one really knows where the term originated!

    Lovely puzzle, though. Thanks to turbolegs and Bradman!

13. ilene@12: I always wondered what a Hoosier was ever since I came across the word in a novel some years ago.  Thanks for the enlightenment.

14. Re 17d: libel is the written word, the spoken abuse is slander. Would have been more accurate to say “literally abused” rather than “verbally abused”. But a good bit of exercise from Bradman. Dansar, above, is correct I think.

15. thanks B and T! I found this a bit hard as well… had heard of SHUFTI but I didn’t see M=mezzo-soprano and kind of handwaved at parsing “fairly quiet”.

     

    Thought that the STRUMPET was very topical (perhaps would have been more so when Stormy Daniels was in the spotlight.

16. Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs

    Finished in normal time but did need help to get BLOOMINGTON and SHUFTI and even though thought that there was more to CALDERA rather than a long convoluted definition, I didn’t spot the wordplay – not helped by initially spelling it with an O instead of an A.  Also had issues working out the M bit of IMP.  Had to use Google to understand the relationship of OYSTERs with Lewis Carroll – not knowing the contents of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” poem.

    Knew the capital of Malta, but always think that it only has one L and one T for some reason.

    So tougher than normal and don’t reckon that I could’ve finished it at all without aids.

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