Independent 11,464 by Filbert

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Monday rolls around and Filbert once again starts us off.

Not as tricky as Filbert usually is to my mind, I was glad as I’m actually now going away on holiday and needed to get this done in a rush before I no longer had internet connectivity.

picture of the completed grid

ACROSS
1. Bin the last of Geraldine’s pickle (6)
SCRAPE

Another fine mess… SCRAP = bin & end of (geraldin)E

4. Jumping in is too cold, equally salty (8)
ISOTONIC

[IN IS TOO]* jumping & C(old)

10. Ruby perhaps cut sandwiches the day before – make fresh? (9)
REDEVELOP

RED – ruby coloured & LOP – cut sandwiching EVE – day before

11. Sorcerer on island is character for show (5)
IMAGE

I(sland) & MAGE – sorcerer

12. Pretty short of time, so prompt (3)
CUE

CU(t)E – pretty with T(ime) removed

13. Impractical, dreadful clutches affected Cortina (11)
DOCTRINAIRE

DIRE – dreadful clutching CORTINA* affected

14. When tailed, quick agents dash (6)
FASCIA

A tailed or rather de-tailed FAS(t) & CIA – agents

16. PM unlocked success? (7)
BALDWIN

Stanley. BALD – un-locked i.e. no hair & WIN – success

19. Love beastly mother returned furiously (4,3)
LIKE MAD

LIKE – love, I love it, I like it & DAM animal esp. horses mother reversed

20. New supermarket opening in Queens offers American exchange (6)
NASDAQ

N(ew) & ASDA – uk supermarket & Q(ueens)

22. Japanese vessels saw Sumatra out east (7,4)
SATSUMA WARE

[SAW SUMATRA]* out & E(ast)

25. Pay close attention to the first person you hear (3)
EYE

Sounds like I – the first person

26. Arab shortly coming over (5)
OMANI

A reversed IN A MO – shortly

27. Thrill with fight after a football game (9)
KICKABOUT

KICK – thrill & A & BOUT

28. Large and one supposes, slightly shorter overalls (8)
FATIGUES

FAT – large & I – one & most of GUES(s)

29. Harry back in Montecito after court, in that woman’s embrace (6)
HECTOR

C(our)T & end of (montecit)O all in HER

DOWN
1. Street fight cancelled (6)
STRUCK

ST(reet) & RUCK – fight

2. Large dog, good during journey home (9)
RIDGEBACK

G(ood) inside RIDE – journey & BACK – home, I’m back, I’m home

3. Timid lady famous for singing comes up to piano (5)
PAVID

I had to check this in the dictionary, wordplay is easy enough thankfully. P(iano) & DIVA reversed

5. Saucepan burned stews far too much (14)
SUPERABUNDANCE

A stewed [SAUCEPAN BURNED]*

6. Audibly have a bash on old German’s percussion (9)
TRIANGLES

Sounds like TRY – have a bash & ANGLES – old Germans

7. Canteen provided society for drinkers, any number turning up (5)
NAAFI

IF – provided & AA – no not the drivers club but Alcoholics Anonymous & N – a number, all reversed

8. Indians nomadic hence carrying foreign money (8)
CHEYENNE

YEN – Japanese money inside a nomadic HENCE*

9. Two options to stop striker lifting equipment? (5,3,6)
BLOCK AND TACKLE

Double cum cryptic & def. BLOCKs and TACKLEs are ways for defenders against strikers

15. Head of marketing docked ÂŁ1,000 by company’s calculation (9)
COMPUTING

CO – company & M – head of M(arketing) & PUT IN – docked as in a ship put in to port & G(rand) – ÂŁ1000

17. Vessel with lid full of bitter, nasty smell (9)
WHALEBOAT

W(ith) & [ALE – bitter, beer & B.O. – nasty smell] in HAT – lid

18. Rats disembarked for launch (5-3)
BLAST-OFF

BLAST – rats, bother, how annoying & OFF – disembarked

21. Enthusiastic singer, quivering treble (6)
BELTER

TREBLE* quivering

23. Oven needs higher temperature for grill (5)
TOAST

T(emperature) & OAST – oven

24. Times table finally clear (5)
ERASE

ERAS – times, ages & end of (tabl)E

 

23 comments on “Independent 11,464 by Filbert”

  4. flashling@3
    I thought Q was shown as an abbreviation for Queens.
    Sorry. I was mistaken.

    Have a great time!

  5. Nice to meet PAVID (and OAST) and to reacquaint with DOCTRINAIRE as ‘impractical’. Enjoyed the Filbertian fun of LIKE MAD, BALDWIN, KICKABOUT and the reversal of OMANI. My top clue is either WHALEBOAT or BLOCK AND TACKLE. Thanks for OAST flashling. Cheers Filbert. More!

  6. A couple of thoughts…
    RIDGEBACK
    If ‘journey home’ is read together, can ‘ride back’ be taken to stand for it?
    Does it explain the ‘back’ better or does it make no difference?
    FATIGUES
    If ‘one supposes’ is read together, it stands for ‘I GUESS’.

  7. As expected from Filbert, some quite hard ones here, notably FASCIA, KICKABOUT and especially WHALEBOAT. I’d never heard of PAVID for ‘timid’ and DOCTRINAIRE is one of that long list of words the meaning of which I only sort of know. If pushed, I’d have said it meant “dogmatic”, rather than ‘impractical’, though I see both senses are given in Chambers, and the ‘impractical’ sense (yes, I suppose it’s related to “dogmatic”) is given more prominence in Collins. You don’t hear BELTER for ‘Enthusiastic singer’ very often but it’s a good, descriptive term.

    I’d like to propose PAVVAPID as a new portmanteau word for “insipidly wimpish”.

    Thanks to Filbert and flashling – if you’re still online, enjoy your holiday

  8. At 8D, I thought we weren’t supposed to use ‘Indian’ in this context now, but no doubt ‘native American’ would have been difficult to work in. Like today’s blogger, I thought this easier than usual for today’s setter, but no less enjoyable for that, so thanks Filbert and Flashling.

  9. As KVa@6 – for RIDGEBACK – took “journey home” as RIDE BACK – it’s slightly better because more concise.

  10. As KVa@6 – for FATIGUES – took “one supposes, slightly shorter” as I GUES[s]
    If we parse the “one” and the “supposes” separately we get I GUES[ses] – and that’s more than “slightly shorter”.

  11. @Wordplodder thanks, we’re by the pool in hot sunshine, drink in hand and me sad enough to check if I’ve made a dreadful blogging errors and curious to see the early comments.

  12. You bloggers are doing an exceptional service and I learn a lot from these blogs. I am always thankful to those responsible for this website.
    I have a feeling that some of my comments have offended you. My apologies.
    Your sadness should go away…
    Have a whale of a time!

  14. DOCTRINAIRE – the perfect word to describe the tory misgovernment of the last 13 years.
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doctrinaire
    Noun – DOCTRINAIRE – A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
    Adjective – DOCTRINAIRE – Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
    2009 October 8, Martin Kettle, “Doctrinaire and dangerous, Cameron’s speech could unseal the deal”, in The Guardian?: “The next government should be patient, and wait for the revenues to begin flowing. The course set by Cameron and Osborne is not just doctrinaire. It is also dangerous.”
    2022 September 4, Peter Walker; Rupert Neate, “Truss to push ahead with low-tax economy despite calls for caution”, in The Guardian: “As analysts warned that relying on boosting economic growth to reduce income inequalities could increase disparities, Tory grandees sounded the alarm over what they said risked being an (sic) doctrinaire approach”
    Thanks F&f – enjoy the break. I’ve just had a calming week away, unfortunately completely cancelled out by a horrendous “journey home” 🙂

  15. I made it! Nice mix of easier and harder clues. PAVID, NAAFI and OAST were never heard ofs , and I mainly know FASCIA as an anatomy term, so I’m still unsure of how that gives dash. The wordplay for all those clues was clear enough, and I was thrilled to see that all my (un)educated guesses turned out to be correct.

    After the slightly incongruous Q in NASDAQ I was on the lookout for a pangram, but it was not to be.

    Thanks filbert & flashling

  17. Thanks both. Really enjoyed this following a sluggish start. I had no idea ISOTONIC means equally salty, but science has never been my strength – I’m more into sport, so applauded BLOCK AND TACKLE when I eventually saw the light. Assumed OMANI was the Arab, but also took ages to note the reversal involved three words not one

  22. Thanks Filbert. I liked BALDWIN, EYE, KICKABOUT, HECTOR, and WHALEBOAT. I used a word finder for TRIANGLES, not knowing “have a bash” means “try”. (I know “have a bash” to mean “throw a party”.) PAVID and NAAFI were unknown to me but easy to discern from the wordplay. Thanks flashling for the blog.

  23. Wasn’t planning on solving the Indy today, but I’m a big Filbert fan. Lovely stuff, as is tradition.

    Thanks Filbert and flashling.

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