Financial Times 16,074 by WANDERER

10 comments on “Financial Times 16,074 by WANDERER”

1. 

   Chadwick Ongara

   #1 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 16:18

   
   

   Meatier than Chifonie over there. One error, MOTHER for TOTHER, a word l’ve never heard of.

2. 

   Chadwick Ongara

   #2 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 16:24

   
   

   Just seen it in Merriam-Webster (meaning ‘the other one’). l blame myself for missing ‘small child’=tot.

3. 

   Sil van den Hoek

   #3 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 16:32

   
   

   And the nina might have been helpful! (left and right columns).

4. 

   Steve

   #4 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 16:47

   
   

   Thanks WANDERER and Turbolegs; very enjoyable. For me, this was towards the easier end of WANDERER’S spectrum in that I was able to finish it relatively quickly and unaided. Re 13a, I now live in the US but grew up in Kent many years ago and my recollection is that t’other was a Yorkshire (or general Northern England) contraction of ‘the other’ e.g. ‘pull t’other one’. Re 25a, the ‘in some sort of firm’ part of the surface seemed a bit clunky and somewhat redundant.

5. 

   Steve

   #5 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 16:49

   
   

   Oops – please disregard ‘some’ from my ‘in sort of firm’ comment

6. 

   Eileen

   #6 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 17:00

   
   

   Thanks, Turbolegs and Wanderer.

   Another enjoyable puzzle – I was amused to find TOTHER [a word I use often] in the dictionary.

   I too was puzzled by the ‘sort of firm’ and, initially,  ‘game’ in 9,10, until I realised it must be the other meaning [‘lame’. as in ‘gammy leg’] and thus the anagram indicator.

   [A wee slip, Turbolegs: in 6ac, ‘of a duck’ is not part of the definition.]

7. 

   Chadwick Ongara

   #7 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 17:16

   
   

   Thanks Sil for the nina which l never would spot in a month of Sundays.( LECTURER & LEARNERS)

8. 

   acd

   #8 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 21:17

   
   

   Thanks to Wanderer and Turbolegs. Enjoyable. Yes, I found this puzzle a bit easier than usual from this setter. I had no problem with TOTHER, but I struggled a bit with Paisley as a manager, Natal as a former colony, and the first word in UNIT TRUST.

9. 

   Dansar

   #9 - Fri 25th Jan 19, 21:47

   
   

   Thanks to Turbolegs and Wanderer

   I think I can imagine the struggle to find the link words in 9,10 but surely the setter eventually gave up. If GAME = LAME or even if it means ACTIVITY then BECOME should be BECOMES.

   Likewise at 23a –  what do the dashes signify? Are they there simply because there was no ready way to incorporate that awkward B into an anagram?

   In 25a I can only see SORT OF FIRM as a separate definition i.e. wordplay plus double definition.

   I still quite liked it as a whole though.

   BTW what does the nina mean?

    

10. 

    brucew@aus

    #10 - Sat 9th Feb 19, 02:38

    
    

    Thanks Wanderer and Turbolegs

    Actually did this on a flight back from Malaysia at the end of January, and although distracted, it still took longer than normal for a puzzle by this setter – maybe it was the altitude !   Anyway, eventually was able to finish off the last couple of words (CAUDAL and LOTION – both which took a long time to parse) early the next morning.

    Didn’t spot the nina.   I notice that with CRYPTOGRAM – you have omitted the P (quietly) from your parsing.  I’d actually parsed it differently – having CRY (sob) + PTO (flipping) + MARG (French girl) – which I now see relies on ‘flipping’ doing double duty.

    The term ‘luvvie’ to mean ACTOR was new to me – but having looked it up and seeing the context, I thought made it a very clever clue.  Didn’t know Mr PAISLEY either.

    Found it a quite challenging and enjoyable crossword.

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