Financial Times 17,189 by BRADMAN

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An enjoyable challenge from BRADMAN , our usual Friday host.

FF: 9 DD: 8

ACROSS
1 LEFTOVERS
Socialist maidens? They are unwanted at the meal table (9)

LEFT ( socialist ) OVERS ( maidens, from the game of cricket )
6 HOT UP
Backward place, what? Makes one agitated (3,2)

reverse of PUT ( place ) OH ( what ) .. i dont believe i have come across what for OH before this , would have gone with EH usually
9 GRANITA
Something cold and crunchy served by gross girl (7)

GR ( gross ) ANITA ( girl )
10 CONFUSE
Study piece of electrical equipment giving puzzle (7)

CON ( study ) FUSE ( piece of electrical equipment )
11 TWILL
Work around weak material (5)

TILL ( work ) around W ( weak )
12 PASSERINE
Bird gives donkey hesitation when entering wood (9)

[ ASS ( donkey ) ER ( hesitation ) ] in PINE ( wood )
14 DUE
Report of deposit being expected (3)

sounds like DEW ( deposit )
15 MORNING STAR
Strong man out to protect one, having right heavenly body (7,4)

{ [ STRONG MAN ]* containing I ( one ) } R ( right )
17 EIFFEL TOWER
We need fewer to file around prominent landmark (6,5)

[ FEWER TO FILE ]*
19 PAD
The old man had temporary lodgings (3)

PA ( old man ) 'D ( had)
20 MANHANDLE
Deal roughly with fellow, northern worker being kept in (9)

MALE ( fellow ) containing [ N ( northern ) HAND ( worker ) ]
22 ARROW
Cockney school? It did for Harold or Robin! (5)

hARROW ( school, cockney pronunciation i.e. without first letter ) – i dont know the harold or robin reference so any help here would be welcome; googling helped me find that harold, king of england was killed by an arrow , and cock robin from the nursery rhyme was claimed to have been killed by an arrow ( as confessed by the sparrow ) .. but not sure if thats the parsing here; do = kill.

24 ARISING
A gang crossing island is becoming apparent (7)

A [ RING ( gang ) around IS ( island ) ]

26 KIDDING
One theologian entertained by monarch is fooling around (7)

KING ( monarch ) around [ I ( one ) DD ( theologian ) ]
27 DODGE
Avoid magistrate, admitting misdeed finally (5)

DOGE ( magistrate ) around D ( misdeeD, finally )
28 SIDE DOORS
Odd roses I arranged in entrances (4,5)

[ ODD ROSES I ]*
DOWN
1 LIGHT
Land journey – female heading off (5)

fLIGHT ( journey, without F – female )
2 FRAGILE
Line on outside of material that’s cheap and apt to rip? (7)

FILE ( line ) outside RAG ( material that's cheap )
3 ORIFLAMME
Standard email form needs to be revised (9)

[ EMAIL FROM ]*
4 EXASPERATED
Former lover, a dear pest troubled and annoyed (11)

EX ( former lover ) [ A DEAR PEST ]*
5 SIC
Thus one art form puts Greek character off (3)

muSIC ( art form, without MU – greek character )
6 HINGE
Joint aching excessively? Not entirely (5)

hidden in "..acHING Excessively.."
7 TOURIST
“To the biblical city first!”: is that what I say? (7)

TO UR ( biblical city ) IST ( first )
8 PREFERRED
Quiet football official, having made a mistake, is favoured (9)

P ( quiet ) REF ( football official ) ERRED ( made a mistake )
13 SHIPWRECKED
Awful whisper on troubled deck – with sailor in danger of being this? (11)

[ WHISPER ]* [ DECK ]*
14 DREAMLAND
A country with a vision? (9)

cryptic def ; DREAM ( vision ) LAND ( country )
16 GARLANDED
Decorated message from successful angler? (9)

cryptic def; read as GAR ( a type of fish ) LANDED
18 FANCIED
Made up to be appealing to the opposite sex? (7)

cryptic def
19 PORTICO
Drink one firm provided in entrance to building? (7)

PORT ( drink ) I ( one ) CO ( firm )
21 AGILE
Lively time in which one’s turning 51 (5)

IL ( in roman numerals, 51= LI, reversed ) in AGE ( time )

23 WAGES
Pay comics, including foremost of entertainers (5)

WAGS ( comics ) containing E ( Entertainers, first letter )
25 GAS
Fuel additional to requirements? Not hydrogen (3)

GASh ( additional to requirements, without H – hydrogen )

23 comments on “Financial Times 17,189 by BRADMAN”

  1. A steady puzzle which required some brow-furrowing nonetheless to finish in the tricky NE corner.
    The longer answers around the centre provided a good start and of these, PASSERINE was my favourite. LEFTOVERS was also a deft clue. Good thing 3d was an anagram though; I recognised this lovely word – though not its meaning – from an old beauty brand.
    Reliably entertaining.
    Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs.

  4. As usual I enjoyed the Don’s Friday tester.

    6a is surely ‘Het up’ , with Put and Eh both reversed.

    22a is I believe just as you explained it TL, referring to 2 beings that were done in by arrows.

  5. I’m in the “het up” brigade.

    When I was young I was interested in heraldry, so 3D came easy to me.

    I had no idea of that definition of “gash”.

    16D is a very clever clue.

  7. I must not have noticed this in the blog on a first reading but along with the comments above, I had ‘het up’ too from put (place) and eh (what) both reversed.
    I can’t offer an alternative to the Harold and Robin in the blog. Both seem fine to me.

  8. Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs

    I’m firmly in the ‘HET UP’ camp too.

    Similarly to Peter @ 5, a youthful interest in heraldry and knightly novels gave me 3 straight away.

    I’d heard of GASH as waste from a process, so it went in with a “must be”.

  10. I just remembered ORIFLAMME as a sort of ? pennant, but know nothing more about it. GAS(H) also had me stumped, though I had come across it before according to my “Words I have (not) learned from crosswords” file. Just being thick, but I still can’t quite see how FANCIED works.

    I liked the GAR LANDED ‘message from successful angler?’ and the unusual placement of the def for TOURIST.

    Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs

  11. King Harold died with “an arrow in his eye” at the battle of Hastings, and the sparrow killed cock robin “with my bow and arrow “

  12. I had granola for the “cold and crunchy” so DNF with 3d a mystery. Of course “het up”. I think 18d is a double def ‘“ to be appealing to the opposite sex” being the second.

  13. Also a HET UP, here.

    GASH in that sense is pure UK, so a guess at the solution for me. In US slang, it means quite something else again.

    Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs.

  14. Thanks for the blog , WordPlodder @10 FANCY can be a verb, to imagine, to make up.
    If you FANCY someone you find them attractive, someone who is FANCIED is appealing to the opposite sex, although that sounds a bit old-fashioned these days.

  16. Thought Robin was Hood for whom an arrow worked as a tool / weapon – so getting two meanings out of “did for”

  18. WP@15 we are all dim sometimes, just cannot see things.
    Cineraria @13 gash has a very unpleasant derogatory sense in the UK as well , I was pleased our setter avoided it.

  20. I’m firmly in the Het Up camp.

    Never heard of Oriflamme nor this sense for Gash.

    Lois were Twill and Fragile, which took rather too long to spot.

  21. Finally got round to it with breakfast coffee this morning.
    I am another HET UP.
    I also think 22a is a double definition as both parts give ARROW.
    Thanks to Bradman for the fun and Turbolegs for the explanations.

  22. An easy solve, but satisfying. We knew ORIFLAMME as the banner and thought it was also some sort of shellfish – but we must have been thinking of a similar word, not that we’ve any idea what. Google tells us, though that there’s a board game called Oriflamme; as it’s about medieval knights we guess it’s named from the banner.
    We never thought of any answer but HET UP for 6ac, the parsing’s so obvious. And the Battle of Hastings and Nursery Rhyme references for ARROW raised a smile.
    PASSERINE was our favourite.
    Thanks, Bradman and Turbolegs

  23. I think (sadly) that I have just found out the unpleasant meaning of “gash” alluded to above. which I had never heard before. If I am correct then Bradman should never have used this word in a puzzle. I may be a prude but I do respect women.

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