Financial Times 18,026 by SLORMGORM

18 comments on “Financial Times 18,026 by SLORMGORM”

1. 9a [in]ACCURATE: Is the WP cluing two Rs?

2. I thought there were too many wordy clues with fillers, clunky surfaces and obscure references, alleviated by plenty of approachable anagrams

   I best liked ROOSEVELT (loved it), and NORWAY. There were many contenders for the clue I least liked, and possibly BEANOS takes the prize

   Thanks Slormgorm and Cineraria

3. Thanks Slormgorm for a fun ride with my top picks being DEADBEAT, ROOSEVELT, CONFORM, BURRO, and ADORE. Thanks Cineraria for the blog.

4. Why is motor bowl?

5. GDU@4: As a verb, “bowl along” is equivalent to “motor along,” as in: driving a car.

6. I enjoyed the puzzle with my favorites being ROOSEVELT (I’d trade what we have now for either) and HORDE. Thanks to Slormgorm and to Cineraria for a great blog,

7. I wondered the same thing and came to the same tentative conclusion. Tentative because I do not think the two expressions mean the same thing.

8. Thanks for the blog , very enjoyable with clever clues .
   Well spotted Frankie @1 , these things are bound to happen , change rogue to copper .
   ANTARES very interesting , clearly red to the naked eye and the brightness varies over several years , alas we never get a really good view from the UK . A good candidate for the next supernova .

9. Ironic that 9(ac) is actually slightly inaccurate, ‘though I didn’t spot it until reading FrankieG@1. It doesn’t detract from a clever and entertaining puzzle.
   Some novel definitions, ( an old elevator = STAIRLIFT; skinny = EPIDERMAL ), excellent surfaces, and (I found) some cracking misdirections.
   STOOLBALL is a new one on me, interesting to read about it, ‘though.
   No quibbles, big thumbs up, Slormgorm and Cineraria

10. GDU – let me look that up in a dictionary for you…

    From Collins:
    Bowl – to move easily and rapidly, as in a car
    Motor – to move fast; make good progress

    I share ENB’s appreciation for the witty definitions. Fun puzzle.

11. An enjoyable puzzle. Many thanks to Slormgorm and Cineraria.

    I had the same impression as others (Cineraria, FrankieG@1) about the two Rs in 9a. However, and this might be stretching the clue a little, could “locking up” indicate the overlapping Rs? In this case, the R is locked up between CUR and RATE. In my Chambers, lock may be defined as “unite or engage fully”.

12. Martyn@2 nearly sums of my opinion of this one. I completed it, but slightly painfully, though also managed to parse everything, so that was pleasing.

    Thanks

13. Thanks Widdersbel @10 for the education. Neither my vocab nor the dictionary I looked at had that interpretation of motor. We see again that no meaning can be dismissed until every dictionary is consulted.

    Thanks again to Slormgorm and Cineraria

14. RINSES was my COD purely for the surface which didn’t seem like a clue at all.

    I couldn’t account for the extra R in 9a, the attempts above seem a bit of a stretch, I think this was an oversight. I agree with Martyn @2, many clues were painful.

    STOOLBALL – I had some friends back in the day who would quite happily claim this as something they invented when drunk and couldn’t be bothered to find a toilet, I was surprised to see this was actually a thing.

15. What a delightful puzzle, with lots of witty clues.

    The surfaces of two of my favourites, 1a DEADBEAT and 17d STAIRLIFT made me think it was Paul, not Slormgorm.

    Another favourite was 25d HERON, with its zoological deception leading us away from the drug.

    13a would have been another favourite, for the surface and the good anagram, but for the fact that it reminded me of the current greatest threat to Canada’s autonomy.

    Martyn@2, I’m not sure why you didn’t like 22d BEANOS. (You didn’t say why.) Runners are employed in the film industry, which makes the Oscar party surface particularly good. I quite liked that clue.

    Thanks Slormgorm and Cineraria for the excellent puzzle and blog.

16. Like Martyn@2 we thought there were too many wordy clues with fillers, clunky surfaces and obscure references, so this didn’t really float our boat.
    Thanks, though, to Slormgorm and Cineraria.

17. I liked this, sneaky in places but easy enough to parse, although I didn’t solve it very quickly. In Sussex, primary school kids play both stoolball and rounders. I didn’t realise stoolball was so obscure until I was a bit older. Thanks to Slormgorm and Cineraria.

18. Martyn – Collins is recommended. Very good dictionary and available online. It will see you right for most words seen in blocked crosswords in the UK national dailies.

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