Financial Times 16,471 by REDSHANK

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1. Thanks for the blog, Turbolegs.

   A most enjoyable puzzle. I particularly liked 24ac EDIFIED, 26ac MASS-PRODUCED, 19dn KEROUAC and 22dn EIDER – there could have been more.

   I didn’t know 19ac KNISH but just did what it says on the tin.

   For overseas solvers, 11ac refers to this lady.

   Many thanks to Redshank.

2. I originally put in ELDER for 22d but then realised it has to be EIDER (the duck grows down).

   For anyone confused by the GBBO in 11a, it refers to “The Great British Bake Off” TV series (never watched it myself).

   Thanks to Turbolegs and Redshank.

3. We crossed Eileen.

4. 22d is shown as ELDER, I think should be EIder as Eileen mentioned above.

5. Very enjoyable thank you Redshank and Turbolegs.   My particular favourite was 11a

   I’d also like to know whether people got their deja-vu moments solving this one after the Guardian Nutmeg or vice-versa?

6. Re 11a: I should have said ‘refers ironically’. 😉

   crypticsue – I’d already seen comments before starting this one: remarkable to have two instances.

7. Thanks @2 Hovis — GBBO was a mystery to me, and spoilt the clue. Perfect otherwise.

8. Another excellent offering from Redshank.  I found early clues like PREPOSTEROUS and APOSTROPHISE difficult enough and the unknowns KNISH and the LANGUR ‘monkey’ didn’t make things easier later on. I also had no idea about the GBBO wordplay so could only solve 11a unparsed from the first def – thanks to Eileen for the explanation and link.  I won’t give the game away, but one clue was fresh in my mind, both the clue itself and position in the grid, for the Nutmeg which followed.

   Challenging but satisfying. Favourite was KEROUAC, who made a change as a ‘US writer’ from Poe or Twain and is hardly someone usually associated with a ‘Royal couple’!

   Thanks to Redshank and Turbolegs

9. crypticsue @5: Yes – I tackled Nutmeg first, then this. I immediately noticed that LOOSE-LEAF appeared in both, but was even more surprised when OCARINA also turned up. A remarkable coincidence.

10. Re. this puzzle and the Guardian: it wasn’t just the two instances LOOSELEAF and OCARINA – the two puzzles also used the identical geometric grid! Seems like a staggering coincidence to me. OCARINA appeared in the exact same place in both.

11. I noted the grid/OCARINA thing in the Guardian blog — but missed LOOSE-LEAF.

12. We had no real problems with this.  The only new word to us was KNISH but it was easily got from the wordplay and swiftly confirmed in Chambers.  We weren’t too sure of the parsing of PAISLEY and INTONED, and needed the blog to confirm.

    Thanks, Redshank and Turbolegs.

13. Thsnks Julius and Turbolegs
    Found this one the hardest puzzle of the week, taking about twice as long as any of the others. Probably more about me than the crossword looking back on it – e.g. took ages to wonder why a LOOSE LEAF ‘may drop’ … duh!
    Having said that, there were quite a number of new words in the answers that were new learning – answers at 16a, 19a, 7d and the German river at 22d along with GBBO in 11a.
    Always try to spell 9a as LANGOUR for some reason, but fortunately at the U crosser before I got to it today – must remember languish first in future.
    Liked the original clue for IMAGINE. Finished on the left after finally getting APOSTROPHISE, then EDIFIED and POINTED.

14. Thanks to both. I am an other for the duck rather than the old person for 22d. Rest was fine after GBBO finally clicked and I had done Nutmeg first so was quite surprised at the coincidences.

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