Financial Times 18,071 by PETO

10 comments on “Financial Times 18,071 by PETO”

1. Nice puzzle. Super blog.
   My top picks: NIGER, UNDERSCORE, OVERSHADOW, BONESHAKER and CONCESSION.

   Thanks Peto and Cineraria.

2. Yes, I agree – an enjoyable puzzle and a thorough blog which confirmed for me the use of ‘spoon’ as ‘golf club’.
   The NE held out longest for me with SEAMAN my LOI because I was hung up on ‘handles’ as ‘straps’ and didn’t really switch on to ‘rating’ and ‘names’ until the crossers made it obvious.
   My favourites were BONESHAKER (haven’t heard that in a while) and ALL THUMBS.
   Thanks to Peto and Cineraria.

3. Heard boneshaker recently watching an old Midwife; a nurse complained about having to ride one. Meanwhile, no complaints here, though bugbears was slow (fans, nuts … er), as was names = handles (d’oh, it’s a regular). And a dnf as I gave up staring dumbly at _ora_e (thinking soldiers = OR) and revealed the M. Silly really, but enjoyed it ntl, ta Peto and Cineraria.

4. Not much to add, except I really liked FOI DRIVEN and it was nice he gave us an easy clue for ACIRI where he had clearly painted himself into a corner.

   Thanks Pete and Cineraria

5. Can someone please explain EN for space (8d). Excuse my ignorance but I’ve only been doing these things for 3 or 4 years and I’ve never seen this before and can’t find it in any of the help manuals. Thanks.

6. In the context of typography, “en space” refers to a unit of measurement and a type of spacing, half the width of an em. An em is the width of the typeface’s body height, so an en space is equivalent to half of that. It’s used to create a specific amount of space between words or characters in text.

   Eric@5
   EN & EM stand for space quite often in crosswords. Useful to remember.

7. KVa@6 Thanks. I knew about EM for a typographical space, but not the EN. I use the EM hyphen thingy quite a lot, as it happens.

8. Thanks for the blog , good variety and clever clues .
   Additional for EN and EM , also known as nut and mutton , a relic from type-setting rooms which were very noisy , these turn up sometimes , mainly Azed .

9. I found this a bit of a curate’s egg. Some excellent clues, as already noted, but also a few which were a bit too clever for my liking. Eg. Bugbears, Underscore.

   Thank you for the blog.

10. Thanks for the puzzle and blog. I enjoyed completing this in front of the telly this evening. I didn’t know that meaning for RIGMAROLE and thought another anagram might be hiding. No major hold ups though.

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