Financial Times 17,106 by Redshank

11 comments on “Financial Times 17,106 by Redshank”

1. My overall experience was not dissimilar to Pete’s on this occasion. I also liked TELL, WELL-BALANCED and BRAINWASHING.
   Thanks for an enjoyable puzzle, Redshank, and to Pete, as ever, for filling in a few blanks, notably ‘bay/yell’ (HALF VOLLEY) and ‘monk/brother’ (ADMONISH) where I had relied on crossers.

2. Thanks Redshank, that was fun with my top choices being T-SHIRT, SUMMON, SPEECH, and TATTOO, the latter for its seamless surface. I never solved TABLE D’HOTE and I needed to research Blondin to get 18a. Thanks Pete for the assistance.

3. Why is Harry HAL? Enjoyable otherwise

4. 2 down. The foreign is “el” I think?

5. Another very enjoyable puzzle from Redshank ( the fifth this year, actually, Pete).
   As well as Pete’s favourites, I particularly liked T-SHIRT and OCCIDENTAL.
   Adam Lutz @3 – see here
   Many thanks to Redshank for the fun and Pete for the blog.

6. Not much more to say really – an enjoyable crossword. I add IMPOSTER to the list of favourites

   I have a different idea to Redshank about the meaning of a number of words. In my mind BAYing is not yelling, a HALF VOLLEY is not a drop, and a SARI is not a dress. But it would not be a crossword without testing the limits of the English language.

   Thanks to Pete and Redshank

7. Martyn,
   I pondered ‘sari’ like you. I thought of it being ‘traditional dress’ rather than ‘a dress’ and it is certainly ‘long’, metre upon metre (or now yard upon yard again?!) of fabric.
   Then I started to think that a dress these days can mean virtually anything; sleeveless, long, short (tunic), slit to the thighs, backless or midriff baring. And a sari involves skirt and drapery across the torso, shoulders and even the head. In the end, I shrugged and thought why not?

8. Thanks for the blog Pete.
   I agree with Adam@4, re the parsing of HOME LOAN. It is EL in MOAN.
   I also looked sideways at those mentioned by Martyn@6 but, as he says, this is crosswordland.
   Thanks for the fun Redshank.

9. Thanks for the blog, very good puzzle , BRAINWASHING my favourite.
   Chambers does not give direct support for BAY = YELL but gives HOWL for both so just about okay.
   In rugby a DROP kick/goal/out is a player dropping the ball and striking it on the HALF-VOLLEY.
   For NONSENSE I just had the anagram for seen or it is very indirect with the poles.

10. Thanks Redshank and Pete
    Like others, found this a really enjoyable puzzle that took up three sittings across last Saturday afternoon which added up to just over the hour of solving time. Like Pete, TEST TUBE kicked things off with T-SHIRT closely following, but it got a little tougher after that. Had similar thinking around some of the definitions, but Roz nails the ‘drop’ as a kick in football rather than the tennis shot which makes a lot more sense.
    A number that took a little while to understand the word play, such as ADMONISH, TATTOO and TABLE D’HOTE – but so clear once the penny dropped.
    Finished in the NE corner with IMPOSTOR (another tricky parse), TATTOO and TABLE D’HOTE (which I needed a word finder, tricked a little by the apostrophed D’ counting in the 5 – and only remembering the meaning after checking it).

11. My apologies for my error in the (now corrected) 2dn (HOME LOAN).

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