Financial Times 17,016 by GOLIATH

15 comments on “Financial Times 17,016 by GOLIATH”

1. Goliath always guarantees a solid, enjoyable puzzle. Ticks for 7, 10, 20 and 21 but the best of the bunch was that referencing Orwell which made me laugh out loud.
   11 and 23 (LOI) went in on unparsed so thanks especially for clarifying those, Turbolegs.
   Much appreciated, Goliath.

2. My Fun Factor was a bit higher than my Degree of Difficulty, which I’m not complaining about. The only way I can remember the spelling of 13d is to think TAO IS EACH, so the wordplay was particularly helpful. Favourites were the BRA IN STORM and the naughty surface for ROVING EYE.

   It’s effectively the same thing and ends up with the same result, but I parsed 21a as an anagram of ‘squared’ within ‘Mae’.

   Thanks to Goliath and Turbolegs

3. Like WordPlodder, I found this less challenging than usual for Goliath – but I’m not really complaining, either. 😉
   I have the same mnemonic for TAOISEACH, too, since seeing it clued with reference to the Chinese religion before.

   I enjoyed Mae (by herself, as I once saw ‘squared’ clued) in disguise, the surface of ROVING EYE and the construction of TOMBOYISH and MAUVE – and the clue for CORDIAL made me smile.

   Thanks, as ever, to Goliath and to Turbolegs.

4. An excellent challenge indeed but gratifyingly I found this one easier than some this week. Some very amusing clues with some groans for many e.g. 3d.
   21a clever. 23a was my LOI too. Thanks to both .

5. Thanks to Goliath and Turbolegs. Lots of fun. I needed help parsing DWELT, had to google GOSPORT, needed all the crossers to get TOMBOYISH, and especially liked OINK and MASQUERADE.

6. I too found this easier than other Goliaths. In fact, it is the only one FT crossword I’ve completed this week. That seems to put paid to the idea that the puzzles become increasingly difficult as the week goes on. I have felt that while it definitely applies to some papers, it doesn’t to the FT. My LOI was tomboyish – a super clue once the penny dropped. Thanks Goliath and Turbolegs. Took longest to parse MAUVE.

7. Thanks Goliath for another solid crossword. I enjoyed the simple ASPS, CACHE , and BRAINSTORM in particular. MAUVE went in unparsed and TOMBOYISH went in partially parsed; I never could figue out HAIRCUT. All of those seem excellent in retrospect. Thanks Turbolegs for the blog.

8. Thanks for the blog, a lot of fine clues. BRAINSTORM is very clever , I have seen a similar clue for BRAINWASH ( Bust down reason ). MAUVE a very neat compound anagram. I also liked DWELT and many others.

9. I completed, whereas generally I struggle with Goliath. Maybe I’m improving?? I wish I could use emojis on this site. Lots of smiley laughs following idea that I’m improving!
   Some great clues. Particularly like Mae etc.

10. Hi Moly ‘9 – see here http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/06/19/emoticons/#comments 😉

11. Roz @8: “Bust down reason?” for BRAINWASH was the first prize winner in Azed 92 (December 1973).

12. Most enjoyable. We liked BRAINSTORM (although it evoked a groan); MAUVE was great and MASQUERADE was brilliant!
    Thanks, Goliath and Turbolegs.

13. Thanks Pelham@11 it has been used again, with acknowledgements .

14. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Thank you Eileen

15. Thanks Goliath and Turbolegs
    Picking up some backlog puzzles and this was a beauty, taking less time than usual but still across four different sittings when I could grab time.
    Wasn’t able to see the D[IE] bit of 22d after discovering the German word for world. The MASQUERADE was quite brilliant and always appreciate his compound anagrams, of which MAUVE was a superb example.
    Finished in the SW corner with COURTESY (tricky parsing), TAOISEACH (am getting better at spelling it) and that very tricky HAIRCUT as the last one in.

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