Financial Times 17,712 JULIUS

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1. Another great crossword from Julius. My favourite was the splendid cleaner helped by fairy, closely followed by Kent’s changing space

   Many thanks to Julius and Turbolegs

2. I too liked Kent’s changing space and had never heard of Pele’s Hair. A very satisfying solve!

3. To be persnickety, in 9a, AT is included (‘caged’) in an anagram of SUPPLY. In 23/28, I took “sop” as “soaked food”.
   Can now add CLEEK to NIBLICK & BRASSIE (or BRASSY).

4. Exactly what crypticsue said.

5. What crypticsue said – same two favourites for me, v witty definitions. Thanks, Julius and Turbolegs.

   Pele’s hair is an interesting term. Sounds like it could be a bit racist but apparently long predates the footballer.

   Hovis – I have no interest in golf but know about all the old clubs from the excellent PG Wodehouse golf stories, which I highly recommend.

6. PLATYPUS and CHOP SUEY: Parsed them as Hovis did.
   Liked PERCEPTION and BUTLER.
   Thanks both.

7. What Hovis@3 said. (And what KVa@6 said, agreeing with Hovis@3) about PLATYPUS and CHOP SUEY.
   But butler = valet, eh? – Not according to Upstairs, Downstairs; Downton Abbey; The Gilded Age &c.
   Thanks J&T

8. Another excellent offering from Rob. My fave setter.

9. Part of the challenge for me is translating concepts into the UK idiom, for example: Clark Kent usually changes in a phone booth (US), not a phone box (UK). Fun puzzle and good blog. I could not find the “cleek” homophone (obvious, though), so thanks for the explanation.

10. What crypticsue and cineraria wrote

    Thanks Julius and Turbolegs

11. Had to Google for Pontypridd and Pele’s Hair, but otherwise no problem. Liked Cinderella and Fu Manchu. Thank you to Julius for the puzzle and to Turbolegs for the blog, especially for parsing the Spoonerism and “Duck Soup”.

12. Thanks for the blog, a sticklebrick grid is unusual for Julius but the clues were the usual high quality .

13. Very late to this, having been out this afternoon. Super puzzle as usual from this compiler. Peles Hiar – who’d have thought. Lovely underplayed anagram for JANE EYRE, nice use of Fairy Liquid, a cheeky £51 and an even cheekier L&S squeezed in at the end.

    Thanks Julius and Turbolegs

14. Very, very late as I have been saving this up to do when I had time to appreciate it as Julius is becoming one of my favourite setters. Great puzzle with Cinderella and the Phone Box among the best of a good bunch.

15. If the previous two are very late and very very late then I am very very very late 🙂 !
    Wow, this was tricky. Never heard of Pele’s hair, assumed it was a reference to the fooballer! Cleaner helped by fairy was my LOI, a definite penny-drop. I enjoyed the fifty-one quid. Jane Eyre took a while to spot, as did the second ‘P’ in Pontypridd. Using… ‘feeling’ as a def for ‘perception’ is maybe a bit cheeky. Thank you Julius, enjoyed this. And thanks turbolegs – I had missed ‘golf backwards’ in 12/17.

16. jeebs jvector @15! 😀 I’m also with crypticsue @1, and followers but I’m also with FrankieG @7, although in my case I may have read way too much Georgette Heyer (the battle of the valets in The Unknown Ajax is a joy). But that was a tiny blip in an otherwise fantastic puzzle. Thanks Julius and turbolegs.

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