Financial Times 17,535 by NEO

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An interesting challenge from NEO this Friday.

FF: 8 DD: 8

 

I have 1 clue that I cant parse (29a) and would appreciate any help.

9 HEARTBURN
Deer must cross eastern stream in pain (9)
[ HART ( deer ) containing E ( eastern ) ] BURN ( stream )
10 ASTER
Daisy’s teacher docking marks (5)
mASTER ( teacher, without M – marks )
11 ANAGRAM
What makes trestle from mixture of letters? (7)
straight def?
12 PALADIN
Champion youth slicing French bread (7)
LAD ( youth ) in PAIN ( french for loaf )
13 TWO
Couple in Longleat Woods (3)
hidden in “..longleaT WOods”
14 EXTERMINATE
Destroy pests initially missed in old gallery (11)
EX ( old ) [ vERMIN ( pests, without initial letter ) in TATE ( gallery ) ]
17 AMATI
Article One restricts covering expensive fiddle (5)
[ A ( article ) I ( one ) ] containing MAT ( covering )
18 MOG
Moment good to find cat (3)
MO ( moment ) G ( good )
19 LIPPY
Fresh cosmetic item (5)
double def
21 ENLIGHTENED
Made aware in the legend, exploded (11)
[ IN THE LEGEND ]*
23 RHO
P for Plato? That’s Listener’s line! (3)
sounds like ROW ( line ); referring to the greek character that is shaped like a P
25 DENMARK
Men moved into Black Country (7)
[ MEN ]* in DARK ( black )
27 BAIL OUT
Withdraw finance after sub-prime crash? (4,3)
double def
28 TREAD
Beginner in truck on notice to put foot down (5)
T ( Truck, first letter ) RE ( on ) AD ( notice )
29 LIONESSES
One ship is located outside for victorious English team (9)
i am not able to parse this; [ ONE SS ( ship ) ] in LIES?
1 THWART
The endless growth in snooker? (6)
THe ( endless ) WART ( growth )
2 PARANOIA
Fear soldier on holiday regularly going missing (8)
PARA ( soldier ) NOIA [ “..oN hOlIdAy..” ]
3 STARVELING
Oven contents fed to bird — hungry creature (10)
VE ( oVEn, contents of ) in STARLING ( bird )
4 GUAM
Island’s ace: stick around! (4)
GUM ( stick ) around A ( ace )
5 SNAPDRAGON
Photograph monster one encountered in bed? (10)
SNAP ( photograph ) DRAGON ( monster ) – type of flower
6 BALL
Googly say — it’s bowled everyone! (4)
B ( bowled ) ALL ( everyone ) – cricket terminology
7 STADIA
Venues made from stone elevated Verdi opera (6)
ST ( stone ) reverse of AIDA ( verdi opera )
8 ORANGERY
Track to follow round peaks where fruit trees thrive (8)
O ( round ) RANGE ( peaks ) RY ( track )
15 TIME TO KILL
Opportunity for murder? Nothing doing! (4,2,4)
cryptic def [ TIME – opportunity; KILL – murder ] ; i liked the surface for this
16 ILL ADVISED
Student involved with gyrating devil said to be reckless (3-7)
L ( student ) in [ DEVIL SAID ]*
17 ANECDOTE
Complex dance, toe damaged: that’s the story (8)
[ DANCE ]* [ TOE ]*
20 PORPOISE
Small whale quietly entering three rivers (8)
P ( quietly ) in [ PO ( river ) R ( river ) OISE ( river ) ]
22 LINDEN
Tree’s large planted by popular sanctuary (6)
L ( large ) IN ( popular ) DEN ( sanctuary )
24 OBTUSE
Dull books about British employment (6)
[ OT ( books ) containing B ( british ) ] USE ( employment )
26 AIDE
Military officer thought to have a first (4)
IDEA ( thought ) with A moving to the front
27 BOOM
Explosive upsurge in markets? (4)
cryptic def

19 comments on “Financial Times 17,535 by NEO”

  2. Parsed 29a as in blog. LIES = ‘is located’ with ‘outside’ giving its location. Wasn’t sure a PORPOISE was a small whale and had to check OISE was a river.

  3. I regret that I cannot do better than you, Turbolegs , on parsing 29ac. I had ONE SS IS and LE as the anagram fodder with the LE coming from the outside letters of LOCATED OUTSIDE but I appreciate this might not be strictly kosher.

    Anyway I enjoyed the puzzle and greatly appreciated the blog. Thanks to both

  7. I agree with KVa and Hovis re the parsing of 29 – and victorious is part of the definition.

    An enjoyable puzzle, my favourites being 12ac PALADIN, 14ac EXTERMINATE, 23ac RHO, 25ac DENMARK, 1dn THWART, 7dn STADIA and 15dn TIME TO KILL.

    Thanks to Neo and Turbolegs.

  8. I had trouble with rho. To me P for Plato would be pi, I saw no indication that I should consider what the letter looks like.

    Have to admit I was straight onto the lionesses

  9. Julia @8. The clue is cunningly deceptive. The P in Plato would be ‘pi’ but to Plato, as a Greek, ‘P’ is an upper case ‘rho’. The lower case looks a little like ‘p’ but not enough, so Phi has correctly indicated otherwise.

  11. Enjoyed that with the LHS going in much faster than the RHS

    Favourites included: PORPOISE, LIONESSES, PALADIN, LIPPY, THWART

    Thanks Neo and Turbolegs

  12. An enjoyable crossword

    Thanks to Neo and Turbolegs (always nice when you type Neo and, and the predictive text suggests Turbolegs 🙂 )

  14. Didn’t know a porpoise was a whale. Who’d’ve thunk it?

    Didn’t get RHO or BAIL OUT, otherwise plain sailing.

  15. Thanks Neo, that was excellent as usual. Since I was able to solve and parse nearly everything (wasn’t certain how Googly say=BALL) this must have been on the easier end of the Neo spectrum. I had many favourites including ANAGRAM, EXTERMINATING, RHO (simply brilliant), DENMARK, STARVELING, SNAPDRAGON (great surface), STADIA, ORANGERY, ILL-ADVISED, and AIDE. Thanks Turbolegs for the blog.

  16. Another excellent puzzle from Neo. The ANAGRAM clue at 11a was particularly good with the apt choice of letters for the fodder. I also liked the construction and surface of 29a LIONESSES.

    But my favourite of course had to be 17a AMATI. His cellos were even better than his fiddles.

    Thanks Neo and Turbolegs for the fun.

  17. We needed a wee bit of help in the SE corner to get LIPPY but then the rest of that corner fell into place. Favourite, though, was AMATI.
    Thanks, Neo and Turbolegs.

  18. I went to a concert this evening to hear the Doric Quartet . The cellist’s instrument was made by a member of the Amati family in 1584 and sounded wonderful. I had no idea that instruments that old are still in use. Almost incredible.

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