Financial Times 18,166 by Julius

17 comments on “Financial Times 18,166 by Julius”

1. Always like Julius

   Favourites: CAMPHOR, TAILS, DOGMATISM, CHIANTI, TATTOOIST

   Thanks Julius and Pete Mclean

2. Thanks Julius and Pete

   22ac: I took “when retired” as indicating a reversal not an anagram.

3. I think 22ac is a reversal with s swapped for i

4. Thanks for the blog Pete, especially for your help in parsing ELASTIC. I had tried to make (t+scale)* work somehow. My take on the DD at 17 is “approach green” and “area for playing cricket”. Ta Julius.

5. A lovely puzzle from Julius this weekend with a handful of answers to tantalise the tastebuds and, indeed, influence my choice of restaurant for lunch.
   Agree with Fiona @3 re 22A.
   2D was my FOI and generous enough with crossing letters to allow me to finish on the first pass. It was also among my favourites along with 7D and APHRODITE, all with great surfaces.
   Naturally, there were others.
   Thanks to Julius and Pete

6. Thanks Julius for another excellent crossword. I found this on the easier end of the Julius spectrum & I was able to solve & parse all clues. Particular favourites included TAILS, ST EMILION, UPLOADED, & BIRTHDAY PRESENT, the latter for its great anagram & surface. Thanks Pete for the blog.

7. Julius – ever the master of anagrams – has excelled himself. BIRTHDAY PRESENT and WIENER SCHNITZEL, both top notch. Plenty of other good stuff but those two are tremendous spots.

   (Tiny typo in the anagram fodder for the second of those, Pete M)

   Thanks both

8. Yup, good puzzle/blog.

   Yes 17a approach green = pitch in golf – i think Coloradan has it right

   Liked a team, elegiac and especially Wiener schnitzel.

   Looks like julius did this one while hungry and thirsty.

9. I had PITCH as the blogger – the PITCH / approach is a big part of Dragons Den. And I was impressed by the reversal of ANIMATION in 22A.

   Thank you to Pete Maclean and Julius

10. Do you ever get off to a flyer and think “If I’d kept that going, I’d have finished in no time.” Well, it finally happened for me. So, I enjoyed this, of course, but it didn’t last long.

    I liked BIRTHDAY PRESENT and WIENER SCHNITZEL.

    Thanks Julius and Pete.

11. Thank you Julius. This was great fun to solve.

12. Yes, thanks, very enjoyable. NHO Dynamo, but I guessed it was the sort of name a magician might have.

13. 17ac further to various earlier comments: When solving, I thought in terms of “sales pitch” for the first definition, but was struggling to fit both “green” and “cricket” into the second definition. The split suggested by Coloradan@4 as explained by James@8 seems to work more clearly. I suppose we will have to wait to see if Julius will drop in and shed any further light on this.

14. Thanks for the blog, dear Pete, and thanks to those who have left a comment.
    My intended parsing for PITCH was “approach green” = play stroke with pitching wedge at golf + “area for playing cricket”.
    Best wishes to all, Rob/Julius

15. Julius@14: Thank you for dropping in, and especially for sorting out PITCH.

16. Late to the party but I agree totally with Diane @5.

    Many thanks to Julius, as ever and to Pete.

17. I think the definition in AMBIT is ‘range’. Clue is ‘gambit’ (strategy) without ‘g’ (golf).
    Thanks for all the other solutions though!
    Tom

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