Financial Times 16,474 by PETO

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1. In 11a I think UP is “over”, which is “turned”

2. To Andrew @1:
   Yup, that seems to work better. ‘Up’ as in ‘finished’, VG, ta.

3. Pretty gentle fare on offer today, though I only half-parsed REPUTATION – your parsing looks good, Andrew @1. I thought the ‘English’ in 26a was perhaps a bit over-generous of our setter.

   I enjoyed LEG SLIP and RUN-IN, both of which, true to form for me for cricketing clues, took a bit of nutting out.

   Thanks to Peto and Grant

4. Parsed 11a as Andrew. You’ve missed out the die = depart part of 21d. Thanks Peto and Grant.

5. @Grant: In 1a the ‘church’ is CE not CH. And in 21d it’s ‘to depart’ = DIE + U.

   Fun but fast. I solved this before going to bed last night, which is very rare for me as my brain is always frazzled by midnight. Although reading the blog highlighted a mistake I’d made in 23a, where I’d entered LEG SPIN, thinking of ‘pin’ as a slang word for ‘leg’.

   Thanks to all.

6. To Hovis@4 & Angstony@5:
   Mea culpa for not showing my workings for ADIEU.
   Not that it matters – & I think that anyway my answer was at best interestingly wrong – but I’d parsed it in my head as ‘A’ + D[epart] + IEU, a (spurious) homophone (‘say’) of ‘you’.
   My mistake was in thinking that Peto had taken the pronunciation of ‘adieu’ as ‘ad-you’ (as in the song ‘Goodbye, Farewell’ in The Sound of Music) whereas I personally would say it something more like the French; ‘Ad-yuh’, perhaps.
   The second mistake was that ‘D’ = ‘D[epart], whereas on travel timetables it’s clearly D[eparts].
   Sorry I brought it up now.

7. We didn’t find this a particularly fast solve, but we did manage to parse most things as we went along.  We too had LEG SPIN for 23 ac and parsed ADIEU as A + D + a poor homophone of ‘you’ (we usually read D in timetables as ‘depart’).  We also struggled with the parsing of ‘up’ in 11ac – once we’d checked in Collins that ‘opinion’ was an acceptable definition.  And we think RUN-IN isn’t exclusively a cricketing term – we’d normally refer to a bowler’s run-up in any case.

   But a satisfying solve, nevertheless.  Favourite was MUSICIAN for the mental picture of a manic pianist – would he/she, in the words of the next clue, attempt to hurry through rehearsal?

   Thanks, Peto and Grant.

8. Thanks Peto & Grant.

   In 12 across, the b in boys that is replaced is the first letter of building, of course.

9. Thanks Peto and Grant. Liked HERETIC, DISMANTLE, and UMPTEEN. Had to look up BRUNEL — unknown to me. Failed on LEG SLIP — cricket’s a mystery to me. Overall a breezy crossword.

10. I parsed 21 Down as A (Adele’s first) to die (depart) and then u (you say).

11. To Sharon Bear @10:
    Re 21d (ADIEU):
    You & everyone else (see Hovis @4) except me & allan@7. We are wrong & you are right. Blogging is not the same as omniscience. That’s why it’s fun.

12. Thanks Peto and Grant
    Actually struggled with this in places, having trouble with RUN-UP (where the word play finally gave RUN-IN), PUT UP (where the word play worked but the crossers didn’t), then PUT IN (where the word play tenuously worked but was wrong in the end) and ALL ROUNDER (where weight of crossers got to the right outcome eventually).
    The rest of it went in fully parsed after looking up Mr BRUNEL who I’d not heard of.
    Finished with REPUTATION and TRIAL RUN as the last couple in.

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