Financial Times 17,064 by BRADMAN

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Friday fun from BRADMAN!

FF: 9 DD: 9

ACROSS
1 CATHOLIC
Christian at Indian festival among two hundred (8)

[ AT HOLI ( indian festival, of colours ) ] in CC ( two hundred, roman numerals )
5 LAMBDA
Essayist and daughter joining a Greek character (6)

LAMB ( essayist ) D ( daughter ) A
10 ASCETIC
A doubter not keeping quiet, one for self-denial (7)

A SCEpTIC ( doubter, without P – quiet )
11 MUSKRAT
Ark must get organised for one of a pair therein? (7)

[ ARK MUST ]*
12 BRIEF
Legal document not long-winded? (5)

double def
13 POINTLESS
Instruction not to be so digitally rude is serving no purpose (9)

cryptic def; read as POINT LESS
14 FORCE MAJEURE
Major cure – fee terrible – it’s something unavoidable (5,7)

[ MAJOR CURE FEE ]*
18 REMONSTRANCE
Objection about receptacle used in church (12)

RE ( about ) MONSTRANCE ( receptacle used in church ) – had to confirm with chambers for the latter.
21 LAST-DITCH
Desperate model longing to hug daughter (4-5)

[ LAST ( model ) ITCH ( longing ) ] containing D ( daughter )
23 RECTO
Page in ministerial residence ushering last couple out (5)

RECTOry ( ninisterial residence, without last couple of letters )
24 GOING ON
Making stage entrance and speaking at length (5,2)

double def
25 RANKING
Position in society possibly organised by top man (7)

RAN ( organised ) KING ( top man )
26 EL NINO
Current line unexpectedly meeting with refusal (2,4)

[ LINE ]* NO ( refusal )
27 IMPARTED
Transmitted confession of one not full-time journalist? (8)

cryptic def; read as I'M PART ED ( ~ confession of one not full-time journalist )
DOWN
1 CRABBY
Bad tempered passenger’s last to be carried by taxi-driver (6)

R ( passengeR, last letter ) in CABBY ( taxi-driver )
2 TOCSIN
Alarm when bed is made the wrong way – something wicked! (6)

TOC ( bed = COT, reversed ) SIN ( something wicked ) – didnt know the word but could get it from the clue
3 OUT-OF-TOWN
Not in, frequently now wandering away from built-up area? (3-2-4)

OUT ( not in ) OFT ( frequently ) [ NOW ]*
4 INCAPACITATING
Disqualifying one captain acting badly (14)

[ I ( one) CAPTAIN ACTING ]*
6 ABSIT
Leave sailor with model (5)

AB ( sailor ) SIT ( model )
7 BORDEAUX
Carried money, reportedly, to get wine (8)

sounds like BORE ( carried ) DOUGH ( money )
8 ATTESTED
New date set around the end of August to be confirmed (8)

[ DATE SET ]* around T ( end of augusT )
9 OMNIUM-GATHERUM
This and that could get our team humming (6-8)

[ OUR TEAM HUMMING ]* – didnt know the word but could get it from the wordplay
15 JACARANDA
Man stopping short north of a river and beginning to axe tree (9)

JACk ( man, stopping short ) A R ( river ) AND A ( beginning of Axe )
16 PROLOGUE
Professional record — one hears that introduction (8)

PRO ( professional ) LOGUE ( sounds like LOG – record )
17 OMISSION
Old religious outreach exposing a type of sin? (8)

O ( old ) MISSION ( religious outreach )
19 SCHIST
Church is participating in street rock (6)

[ CH ( church ) IS ] in ST ( street )
20 GORGED
Feature of Cheddar, ultimate bit of food to be eaten with gusto (6)

GORGE ( feature of cheddar ) D ( fooD, last letter )
22 DAGON
No tribe of Israel set up Philistine god (5)

NO GAD ( tribe of israel ), all reversed

14 comments on “Financial Times 17,064 by BRADMAN”

  1. Very enjoyable. I don’t understand why a muskrat is one of a pair. Hadn’t heard of a monstrance, and my knowledge of Britain was insufficient for Cheddar gorge.

  5. I rather liked MUSKRAT (the animals went in two by two, hurrah, hurrah…), along with the wine in 7d, the cheesy gorge, FORCE MAJEURE and the beautiful JACARANDA which flowers here very soon.
    Thanks , Bradman, for a grid filled with good cheer and to Turbolegs (from whom I learned MONSTRANCE).

  6. Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs. It has certainly been a good week in the FT for fourteen letter anagrams.

  7. A vocabulary builder as well as being very enjoyable. A bit of entering from wordplay for the unknown words but my luck ran out with DAGON. Good to see TOCSIN again and I liked I’M PART ED.

    Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs

  9. Good grid. Thanks Turbolegs and Bradman.

    In 21a why is Model == LAST?

    and again in 6d, why is MODEL == SIT?

  10. Hello Harry , more crossword tricks. A LAST is a shoemaker’s MODEL of a foot used for cobbling.
    To MODEL can be to pose or SIT for photographs or maybe an artist .
    File them away for future puzzles.

  11. Thanks Bradman for a nicely crafted crossword. I found much of this fairly easy but for some reason I could not solve the rather simple RANKING. I had to check 9d and 15d to make sure my parsing was leading me to the correct answers. Otherwise it was smooth sailing with LAMBDA, ASCETIC, and GORGED being favourites. I visited the Cheddar Gorge on my 1st trip to England years ago and I remembered “monstrance” from 12 years of Catholic school so those tidbits helped. Thanks Turbolegs for the blog.

  13. Very enjoyable with no problems. We knew holi in 1ac and monstrance in 18ac having encuntered them in other crosswords recently. So much to like we can’t single out a CoD.
    Thanks, Bradman and Turbolegs.

  14. Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
    Posting a week late but doing a Friday puzzle on a Friday ! Was able to finish in average time in a couple of sittings with a number of new terms, including HOLI, MONSTRANCE, OMNIUM GATHERUM and ABSIT. Should have remembered Holi, as it was only recently celebrated amongst our Indian community here with pictures of people throwing the coloured powder around.
    EL NINO has been prevalent here over the past weeks with heavy flooding across our central eastern coast.
    LAMBDA was the first in with REMONSTRANCE, the clever RANKING and that Latin phrase of 9d the last in a very enjoyable solve.

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