Financial Times 17,419 by BUCCANEER

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A fun challenge from BUCCANEER to end the work week.

FF: 9 DD: 8

ACROSS
9 COLD-HEARTEDNESS
Do scolds show this lack of concern for others? (4-11)

cryptic def; viewed as COLD being at the heart of "sCOLDs"

10 NEVER
Republican, yet left-leaning? No way! (5)

reverse of R ( republican ) EVEN ( yet )
11 CHEMISTRY
Subject of lines concluding revolutionary film (9)

CHE ( revolutionary ) MIST ( film ) RY ( lines, railway )
12 MANY-SIDED
Varied Disney works caught by mother and daughter (4-5)

[ DISNEY ]* in [ MA ( mother ) D ( daughter ) ]
14 SNIFF
Start to scent odour? (5)

&lit; S ( Scent, first letter ) NIFF ( odour )
16 SITUATION COMEDY
Friends perhaps arrive in suit today, and in pants (9,6)

COME ( arrive ) in [ SUIT TODAY IN ]*
19 RINDS
Outer parts of Derby or Leicester? (5)

cryptic def; referring to cheese
21 THEREUPON
After that time, Hungarian on vacation tours Europe, travelling (9)

T ( time ) { HN ( HungariaN, on vacation i.e. without inner letters ) containing [ EUROPE ]* }
23 FLIPPANCY
Imagine pinching cheek softly, being irreverent (9)

FANCY ( imagine ) containing [ LIP ( cheek ) P ( softly ) ]; i think the grammar in the clue needs a rethink.
25 BRIEF
Silk underwear concealing rear end (5)

BRIEFs ( underwear, without last letter ) ; i learnt SILK means a QC or KC ( lawyer )
26 DOUBLE STANDARDS
Flag during tennis game displaying unfair rules (6,9)

STANDARD ( flag ) in DOUBLES ( tennis game )
DOWN
1 ECONOMISER
One saving English business, not a skinflint (10)

E ( english ) CO ( business ) NO MISER ( not a skinflint )
2 SLOVEN
Partners at the table admitting affection for pig (6)

LOVE ( affection ) in SN ( partners at the table, bridge )
3 CHARISMA
Attractive quality maintaining one’s appeal primarily? (8)

&lit; [ CHARM ( attractive quality ) containing IS ( one's ) ] A ( Appeal, first letter )
4 MARC
Brandy butter knocked up before 3rd of December (4)

[ reverse of RAM ( butter, as in something that butts ) ] C ( deCember, 3rd letter )
5 ATTENDANCE
A figure stops Ant and Dec performing for those present (10)

A { TEN ( figure ) in [ ANT DEC ]* }
6 AD LIBS
Politician in party political broadcasts goes off script (2-4)

not sure if my parsing is correct but this is what i have; LIB ( politician ) in ADS ( party political broadcasts ) – someone please improve upon this.

7 BESTRIDE
Walk across theme park’s main draw (8)

cryptic def; read as BEST RIDE ( theme park's main draw )
8 ASHY
Pale American has fling (4)

A ( american ) SHY ( fling )
13 DAINTINESS
Delicacy isn’t included in feasts, having seconds (10)

AINT ( isn't ) in [ DINES ( feasts ) S ( seconds ) ]
15 FLYING FISH
Swimmer very loudly admits dishonesty, to an extent (6,4)

[ FF ( very loudly ) containing LYING ( dishonesty) ] ISH ( ~to an extent )
17 TINNITUS
Ringing idiot going up and down America (8)

TIN NIT ( idiot going up and down ) US ( america )
18 OVERBIDS
Offers too much R&B in funky videos (8)

RB in [ VIDEOS ]*
20 SUPPLE
Showing flexibility, what drug dealers do losing yen (6)

SUPPLy E ( what drug dealers do, without Y – yen )
22 PRIORY
Be curious about site of carnival in religious building (6)

PRY ( be curious ) around RIO ( site of carnival )
23 FADO
Craze over folk music (4)

FAD ( craze) O ( over ) – needed help to confirm the solve
24 YEAR
Period of time that’s long up until November? (4)

YEARn ( long, until N – november )

21 comments on “Financial Times 17,419 by BUCCANEER”

  1. Hey, this was totally enjoyable, with lots of smiles. Too many great clues for me to begin listing them.

    Hadn’t heard of marc brandy, nor niff as an odour (it would appear that the latter is unique to the UK). Like you, Turbolegs, the clue for FLIPPANCY had me looking for an adjective. Not sure where pants come into 16a, is it an anagrind? Not seen it before, that I recall.

    Thanks Picaroon & Turbolegs.

  3. Thanks, Buccaneer and Turbolegs!

    Liked SNIFF, BRIEF, CHARISMA, SUPPLE and YEAR.

    FLIPPANCY
    The definition should be ‘being irreverent’.
    The surface conveys the sense ‘one/you being irreverent’, but the grammar seems fine to me. Am I missing something?

    AD-LIBS
    I had the same parsing.

  4. Thanks Buccaneer for an excellent crossword with COLD-HEARTEDNESS, CHEMISTRY, SITUATION COMEDY, DOUBLE STANDARDS, ECONOMISER, and BESTRIDE being my top picks. I missed RINDS and I didn’t fully understand BRIEF so thanks Turbolegs for the blog.

  5. Excellent crossword with lots to enjoy. Many particular favourite from quite a long list was 19a

    Many thanks to Buccaneer and Turbolegs

  6. For AD-LIBS I thought BUCCANEER was just expressing an opinion about “party political broadcasts” – that they’re just ads. I agree.
    As KVa@3 I parsed FLIPPANCY as “being irreverent”, and couldn’t see anything wrong with the grammar.
    Liked everything about this puzzle. Great fun!
    And yes, GDU@1, “pants” is an anagrind.
    Thanks B&T

  7. Another with FLIPPANCY defined as ‘being irreverent.
    As a Midlander, I share Crypticsue’s favourite, RINDS, and add TINNITUS and BRIEF.
    Thanks to Buccaneer and Turbolegs.

  8. “Irreverent” asks for an adjective. “Being irreverent” asks for a verb — or adjective. But the solution is a noun. All a bit sloppy.

  9. As a Leicestrian, I also, like Diane, share crypticsue’s liking for RINDS (as a solution!) and I also have a long list of ticks – I’ll just pick out SITUATION COMEDY, THEREUPON, DOUBLE STANDARDS and FLIPPANCY.

    Geoff Down Under – ‘being irreverent’ is a gerund: ‘there is no place for flippancy / being irreverent’. ‘Sloppy’ is the very last word I would use of Buccaneer!

    Many thanks to Buccaneer for the fun and Turbolegs for the blog.

  10. Very enjoyable puzzle. I liked the two &lits and RINDS, for which I initially entered “Dandy”, wondering if this would do as a description for the Earl of ‘Leicester’; no luck of course. I remembered FADO from at least one previous appearance in crossword land. Saved from a fail at the end, when I was about to put in an unparsed “supply” for 20d until I saw that what drug dealers do more specifically is SUPPLY E, rather than just SUPPLY.

    Thanks to Buccaneer and Turbolegs as well as to Eileen for the grammar lesson – I live in hope that one day I’ll really understand the difference between a gerund and a participle!

  11. Eileen, it does work when you put it like in your example. I stand corrected and will wash my mouth out with soap. 🙁

  12. Eileen @19-I studied at Leicester Uni but remember the beer (slightly)more than the cheese
    Dylan at De Montfort Hall 1965. Leicester 0 Man U 5 (first time I saw George Best)
    But lets not forget Buccaneer-to solve him and Vlad in the same day is special
    Why am I writing this drivel? I studied 11 there.

  13. Great puzzle. Is it just my perception or are more setters misdirecting us by using crossword staples like revolutionary and outer parts in a non-crossword way? Though I accept Che himself spends more time in Crossword land than the Bolivian jungle.

  14. For 25a, brief is also slang for a barrister, or KC. I started wondering this morning, what did setters use for the letters “che” before Ernesto Guevara got his moniker?
    Thanks to Turbolegs for a great blog, and Buccaneer for yet another super crossword.

  15. Can’t say i’ve ever heard of Derby cheese before. Obviously I go to the wrong supermarket:)

  16. [Mark A @15: I’ve never heard of Derby cheese either. I missed the answer RINDS because I assumed Derby was a hat, Leicester a racecourse, and the outer parts of both were “rings,” my erroneous answer.]

  19. Thanks Turbolegs. Despite being a Midlander I thought 19a a bit weak though maybe because I am from the western side and think Gloucester would have been a better pick than Derby. I thought Marc was a different thing to brandy, being made from the leftovers of wine production rather than the wine itself, but the dictionary disagrees so fair enough. Enough churlishness, this was very good so thanks Buccaneer.

  20. Simon@17 .. or chucking out. Terrible thing to do to a nice innocent bit of cheese. Meanwhile, super puzzle from Buccaneer, thanks and also to Turbolegs.
    Afraid I entered SUPPLY (as an adverb, ‘showing flexibility’) and wondered what I was missing…

  21. Glad to have another puzzle from James. The withdrawals were becoming unbearable. A fine puzzle overall despite there being a couple of clues here I’ve seen before.

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