Financial Times 17,475 by Mudd

12 comments on “Financial Times 17,475 by Mudd”

1. 

   Diane

   #1 - Fri 28th Jul 23, 23:51

   
   

   I second Pete’s sentiments and many of his favourites – felt like old times!
   Also liked GRAVE, CORK, TANGERINE and ENGLISH.
   Thanks, Mudd.

2. 

   Martyn

   #2 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 02:23

   
   

   I almost asked last week “what ever happened to Mudd?”, and I was delighted to see him back again. This was a little more difficult than I remember his puzzles, and did not seem to have the same sparkling wit. But, maybe I am seeing the past through rose-coloured spectacles.

   Diane and Pete summed up my favourites. I could not parse SPRINKLING, and were it not on Pete’s authority, I would seriously doubt that PRINK is an actual word.

   Thanks Mudd – it really is great to see you back. And thank Pete for the great blog.

3. 

   Tony Santucci

   #3 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 02:31

   
   

   Thanks Mudd, that was enjoyable. I ticked SHTICK, MAMMOTH, and TANGERINE as favourites. I couldn’t parse SPRINKLING, not knowing “prink”. By the way, how is Yes! the definition of SWORDPLAY? Thanks Pete for the blog.

4. 

   KVa

   #4 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 02:43

   
   

   Thanks, Mudd and Pete Maclean!
   Liked ASTRONOMER, MERCURY, CORK, SWORDPLAY and GRAVE.

   ASTRONOMER
   Some must have seen Ptolemy as a monster for what he knew or some would
   have adored him for what he knew!

   CORK
   Port being wine, I was checking out if there is a Cork wine.
   Both Cork and Bordeaux are ports. Right?. Just saying…
   Cork is only the gateway to a bottle (of Bordeaux wine)! Not a wine.
   Maybe there is some interesting info in the surface regarding how Cork and Bordeaux are connected.
   Many layers.

   SWORDPLAY
   &litish.
   Blades ultimately (is) my art-YES: as if the SWORDPLAY says ‘yes’?

5. 

   Roz

   #5 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 05:48

   
   

   Thanks for the blog , I agree it is good to see Mudd again, the FT has diversified a lot with Saturday puzzles but we could still have Mudd in the week sometimes.
   I did not know this meaning of SHTICK, I thought it just meant spiel .
   My favourites all accounted for.
   Ptolemy gave us 48 constellations in his great work The Almagest, he used many sources and his only “new” one was Libra . We still use these names today. He did not know about the truly Southern constellations.

6. 

   Andrew B

   #6 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 06:49

   
   

   Good to have Mudd back, although equally it has been good to have the different range of setters rather than Mudd every fortnight.

   More difficult than his usual offerings I found – in contrast to the Paul crossword in that day’s Guardian which took less than half the time of this to solve

7. 

   Shanne

   #7 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 07:27

   
   

   If I remember correctly, I found this easier than the Guardian crossword. It’s one my daughter and I did on the tube as part of my ongoing teaching her cryptic crosswords.

   I really enjoyed this.

   Thank you to Mudd and Pete Maclean.

8. 

   Malcolm

   #8 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 08:32

   
   

   Growing up, my mother, who made a lot of clothes, embroidery, etc, had a pair of prinking shears, scissors sized, which were used to cut an indented line (zig zag shaped) in a piece of cloth.

9. 

   Roz

   #9 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 09:59

   
   

   Malcolm I made the same mistake as you , they are called PINKing shears. When I looked up PRINKing it was not there but I did find PRINK meaning to preen etc.

10. 

    Diane

    #10 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 10:12

    
    

    I know ‘pinking shears’ but I’m more familiar with ‘primp’ than ‘prink’ (apparently from old English, “prinken’). I think I replied on crossers and definition for this one.

11. 

    Diane

    #11 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 10:34

    
    

    I mean I relied!

12. 

    Malcolm

    #12 - Sat 29th Jul 23, 14:44

    
    

    Oops. a failure of my memory.

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