Financial Times 17,645 GURNEY

An easy challenge from GURNEY this Friday.

FF: 8 DD: 6

ACROSS
1	CAVALIER	Spanish wine? It’s not true — at first really casual on detail (8)
		CAVA ( spanish wine ) LIE ( not true ) R ( Really, first letter )
6	COMELY	Attractive domestic gets new start (6)
		hOMELY ( domestic, with change of first letter )
9	UPLIFT	Introduction of flowers in tulip arrangement gives boost (6)
		F ( Flowers, first letter ) in [ TULIP ]*
10	IDEALIST	Dreamer, I distribute cards first (8)
		I DEAL ( distribute cards ) IST ( first )
11	UNDENIABLY	New deal, buy inn in a certain way (10)
		[ DEAL BUY INN ]*
12	DARK	Old craft departs before night (4)
		D ( departs ) ARK ( old craft )
13	LA-DI-DA	Leading couples in large dinner dance seen as affected (2-2-2)
		first two letters of "..LArge DInner DAnce.."
15	WAR DANCE	Draw back — front’s come off weapon in preparatory event (3,5)
		[ reverse of DRAW ] lANCE ( weapon, without first letter )
18	REVERENT	American hero, Paul, extremely neat, respectful (8)
		REVERE ( american hero paul ) NT ( NeaT, end letters )
20	SHAMAN	Priest exposing counterfeit article (6)
		SHAM ( counterfeit ) AN ( article )
21	ACME	High point from champion bringing in millions (4)
		ACE ( champion ) containing M ( millions )
23	FREELOADER	Sponger’s ordeal possibly? (10)
		reverse anagram clue for ORDEAL
25	GADABOUT	Restless one in Georgia seen with lawyer before fight (8)
		GA ( georgia ) DA ( lawyer ) BOUT ( fight )
26	ENAMEL	Paint European celebrity by lake (6)
		E ( european ) NAME ( celebrity ) L ( lake )
27	ULSTER	Rugby team’s unexpected result (6)
		[ RESULT ]*
28	PETULANT	Long to include musical instrument on return, becoming irritable (8)
		PANT ( long ) containing reverse of LUTE ( musical instrument )
DOWN
2	APPENDAGE	Addition showing program finish time (9)
		APP ( program ) END ( finish ) AGE ( time )
3	ABIDE	An offer ultimately unnacceptable: stand fast (5)
		A BID ( offer ) E ( unacceptablE, last letter )
4	INTRICATE	Hard to understand strange recitation, Oscar’s put off (9)
		[ RECITATIoN ( without O – Oscar ) ]*
5	RAINBOW	Colourful display with many different groups involved (7)
		cryptic def, ref LGBTQ connotation
6	CHEWY	Client having engaged with you initially, needing extra work (5)
		first letters of "Client Having Engaged With You.."
7	MELODRAMA	Genial, say, with drink, leading to a histrionic show (9)
		MELO ( sounds like MELLOW – genial ) DRAM ( drink ) A
8	LOSER	One unsuccessful in polo series (5)
		hidden in "..poLO SERies"
14	INELEGANT	Popular English worker admitting stage is awkward (9)
		IN ( popular ) [ { E ( english ) ANT ( worker ) } containing LEG ( stage ) ]
16	RESILIENT	Buoyant, go again at exam, assuming legal right (9)
		RE SIT ( go again at exam ) containing LIEN ( legal right )
17	CHAMELEON	Fickle person, one acting badly in church north of Spanish city (9)
		[ HAM ( one acting badly ) in CE ( church ) ] LEON ( spanish city )
19	TREETOP	Nowhere further to climb — potter gets to work with energy (7)
		[ POTTER E ( energy ) ]*
22	CRAWL	Lacking experience in class, move slowly (5)
		RAW ( lacking experience ) in CL ( class )
23	FLOOR	In favour of including large, old, puzzle (5)
		FOR ( in favour of ) containing [ L ( large ) O ( old ) ]
24	AVAIL	A cover, we hear, to be of use (5)
		A VAIL ( sounds like VEIL – cover )

20 comments on “Financial Times 17,645 GURNEY”

KVa

#1 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 03:59

Thanks GURNEY and Turbolegs!
FF8 DD6. Yes Yes!

KVa

#2 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 04:08

LA-DI-DA (my parsing was very slightly different)
Def: Affected (‘seen as’-link words).

Geoff Down Under

#3 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 04:30

A “Huh?” list of zero. Doesn’t often happen. An enjoyable puzzle with nothing too obscure, thanks Gurney & Turbolegs.

Diane

#4 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 04:59

A lovely puzzle from Gurney with a very pleasing set of clues overall of which my favourites were GADABOUT, CHAMELEON and INELEGANT.
Thanks to Gurney and Turbolegs.

KVa

#5 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 05:44

GDU!
I have a feeling that your ‘Huh’ list may stay this way today elsewhere too.

Martyn

#6 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 05:56

As Diane and FDU wrote. Thanks Gurney and Turbolegs

Martyn

#7 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 06:34

Oops, me@6 – make that GDU, not FDU.

KVa

#8 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 07:08

Martyn@7
Visit yesterday’s blog once!

PostMark

#9 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 08:43

Very enjoyable, top to bottom. Fun to be left staring at CHEWY at the end, having tried inserting various initial letters and hoping the synonym for ‘client’ would become clear, before realising it was the initial letters of everything.

Thanks Gurney and Turbolegs

Diane

#10 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 09:32

My last one in too, Postmark, and for the same reason!

Tony Santucci

#11 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 11:04

Thanks Gurney. This was a quick solve unlike other crosswords this week. Top picks were FREELOADER, ULSTER, CHEWY (LOI), INELEGANT, and FLOOR. Thanks Turbolegs for the blog.

FrankieG

#12 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 11:10

19d TREETOP took me back to the ’60s – ‘There’s more fruity flavour in, | Fresh fruity flavour, | True fruity flavour in, | Tree Top!’
Nice one – Thanks G&T (I’d prefer one of those these days)

Mandrake

#13 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 12:02

Can somebody tell me what FF and DD stand for

KVa

#14 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 12:21

Fun Factor and Degree of Difficulty!
This is a Turbolegs patent!

Pelham Barton

#15 - Fri 2nd Feb 24, 12:50

Thanks Gurney and Turbolegs

5dn partly in response to Peter@11: I think this is a regular double definition, the first definition “Colourful display” relating to the original meaning as a noun and the second definition (the rest of the clue) to the metaphorical meaning as an adjective, given for example in Chambers 2016 as “involving people of different ethnic origins or political views”.