The puzzle has not appeared on the FT’s website today. Here is a basic explanation of the solutions. Thank you to Aardvark and to Stephen for posting a scan of the printed version for me to solve and kindly creating an image of the completed grid.
ACROSS
1 WRESTLING W (with) then LING (fish) following REST (holiday)
6 BRASS double definition, section of the orchestra
9 LUIGI U (universal admittance) in reLIGIon (letters from teh centre of the word)
10 STEVENSON SeaT (vacated, nothing inside) then EVENSONg (prayers, briefly)
11 ZABAGLIONE BAG (catch) then LION (cat) in A and E (accident and emergency, hospital department)
12 VEIL oVEn wILl (marrows, inner parts of)
14 BURETTE BE (stand) containing (around) URE (an English river) and TT (tea total, drying out)
15 RAINBOW RAIN (shower) BOW (front)
17 ETHANOL found inside seventiETH AN OLd
19 REALTOR LT (lieutenant, officer) O (over) in REAR (the back) – Georgia indicates an American word
20 HIDE HIts DEck (half missing)
22 ETON COLLAR anagram of LATER containing (outside) ON COL (route through uplands)
25 VERTIBRAE VERT (gree) BRA (underwear) inside (with…covering) EffectivE (extremes of)
26 AT ALL cAT cALL (cry of disapproval) missing C (college) twice
27 NORSE majoR (ending letter of) in NOSE (hooter)
22 YOU NAME IT YO (greeting) UNA (a lady) then anagram (to arrange) of TIME
DOWN
1 WALTZ LAW (police force) reversed (up) on T (tense) Z (zone)
2 EDINBURGH DIN (commotion) then GRUB (food) reversed (raising) in EacH (outskirts of)
3 TAILGATING GAG (joke) containing TIN (money) following TAIL sounds like (told) tale (account)
4 INSPIRE IN (burning, opposite of out) SPIRE (ecclesiastical feature)
5 GREENER RENE (Frenchman) with ERG (unit of work) all reversed (turned)
6 BREW heBREW (tounge) missing HE (His Excellency, ambassador)
7 AISLE ILSE (Isle of Man) underneath (supporting) A
8 SUNFLOWER SUN (star) FLOWER (something that flows, a runner)
13 PINA COLADA A NIP (small measure) reversed (knocked back) then CO (company) LADA (car)
14 BEETHOVEN BE (to remain) with anagram (new) of THE and OVEN (a kitchen appliance)
16 BATTLE AXE AXE (to terminate) with (at) BATTLE (Waterloo perhaps)
18 LITURGY LIT (illuminated) URGe (drive, endless) then Y (Yankee, phonetic alphabet)
19 RONDEAU R (right) ON then DEAU sounds like (when recited) “dough” (the money)
21 DURER enDUER (one who suffered) missing E (energy) and N (noon)
23 RELET anagram (exotic) of TREstLE missing ST (street, a way)
24 FETE sounds like (discussed) “fate” (outcome)
https://1drv.ms/b/s!ArzUxAekWjHpm0t3YXRN2tqCs6OF
Thanks for the scan of the puzzle Stephen, I will write up the post from this.
My stab at it
https://1drv.ms/i/s!ArzUxAekWjHpm0wmm9sd9S1nRcJ8
My apologies, I have posted an unfinished version by mistake. Will fix that in a minute or two.
OK, all done now.
I’m at a loss to understand why I still (5.30pm UK time) can’t see this puzzle on my saved FT crossie tab………anybody got any bright ideas?
baerchen – crossword editor off sick today?
@PeeDee
quite possibly; but my query was intended to be a genuine one: it seems that some people have been able to see the puzzle on ft.com since the wee small hours but I cannot – even now – and dunno why (being a Bärchen of little IT brain).
PS I realise that this isn’t the help desk 🙂
Thanks Steven for the scan.. completed it using that. still.not up on the FT website..
I notice that the ft.com I see describes itself as the UK edition. Perhaps some other users get a non-UK edition complete with the latest crossword.
PeeDee, you’re right. Those of us that I know could see the puzzle on time were all in Australia.
The FT moves in mysterious ways. Being in Australia like Louise it came up on the site.
Anyways I enjoyed it being blissfully unaware of the plight of most (would-be) solvers.
Thanks Aardvark and PeeDee
Did get to this last week, but got sucked into the Io maelstrom before having a chance to correct this one. From memory this had its own challenges as well
A new word in BURETTE and the return of an old favourite in ZABAGLIONE (jeez I used to love that as a dessert – it’s been many years now – doesn’t seem to get made in Italian restaurants here any more).
Finished in the SW corner with NORSE, DURER and FETE the last few in.