Sunday seems to have become quite the regular slot for Filbert of late.
Filbert and his usual bag of tricksy tricks and misdirections. Thanks Filbert
I assume we’re meant to think of Raheem Sterling who was Erling Haaland’s predecessor at Manchester City. ST – saint , someone very good & ERLING (haaland) and so an all-in-one clue. Not a great start for footballer loathers.
SOW – broadcast seed say inside DIN – noise
Sedan chairs are a type of LITTER, [DANISH CARE]* about
AD – poster, notice & AM(erican)
MUM & PS – postscript. Not an illness men want to get in later life
UP – along & STICK – stand, bear & end of seatS
[LOAN DEBT SELL]* managed
Cryptic def
Most of NAKE(d) – bald inside SOIL – mud
TOPER – drinker reversed
If you’ve lost everything you’d WIN 0 – nothing
IP – intellectual property, copyright & ART – pictures all in TRITE – stock, dull
X – cross in SET ON – attacked
H AND H – both sides of HigH & OLD – antique
A failing [IN HER MOT]* These days they tend to called electrons. You can find out more here
REAL – concrete & end of farM
Losing braces – pairs from the outside (pr)INCESS AN(ne) & start of Tailor
GRAN & a skimmed (y)ULE
End of timetableD & ARTS – music etc
TATI’S – French director’s & T(esla) all in SIC – as intended
Everything inside sACKs, inside WHO
KEIR* ordered inside – nursed by STOUT – resolute
ENTER – register & TA – thanks & IN – elected
TOTE – to lift – reversed inside blanketed by TEAL
[HAIR GEL]* anew
Sounds like – as said by a lecturer – IN SIGHT – visible
O – nothing & FT – newspaper & outside of EveN
C(old) inside PATH
Thanks flashling and Filbert. Took me a while but worth it to complete. Great clues. Likes for HANDHOLD, SNAKE OIL, WINO, RALEIGH, and LONSDALE BELT loi.
Really enjoyed this although failed on TRIPARTITE, and needed the blog for INCESSANT
I was focussed on the DD for Raheem Sterling and Very Good, missed the St Erling part which now makes this even better and my COD.
I don’t get Up = Along
Gnomad@2 I think it’s like move up, move along …
Liked STERLING, INCESSANT, WINO and RETURN TICKET.
Thanks flashling and Filbert.
I don’t think of a SEDAN CHAIR as a litter (which I associate with reclining rather than sitting), Wikipedia notwithstanding. See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/litter, for example. They are similar, of course, but to are a canoe and a kayak, yet they are different things.
[14d STRIKE OUT is “to be dismissed” (in baseball)]
Pace Ian Sw3, I liked SEDAN CHAIR. STERLING was an excellent clue as well. Thanks, both.
I’m a Filbert fan.
My online download of the Independent cryptics doesn’t show the setter: I completed this one thinking, ” gosh… a lot of devious wordplays and misdirection; I wonder who?”
Should’ve known.
I don’t see, how along = up, in 12(ac), UP STICKS.
May be “Move higher on stand” ?
1(ac) is a superb play, ‘though I can see it might be a stinker for those solvers not into footie.
Hopefully, 17(ac) the “Back pass”, made up for it, equally excellent.
Best devices: 5(dn), “Christmas skimmed”; and 8(d), “everything in sacks”. Both of them new to me.
By no means an easy puzzle, but very accomplished.
ta, Fil, and great blog flashling
Best I could come up with for along = up was ‘I walked up/along the garden path’. Not convinced.
My personal favourite was INCESSANT.
Another solid Filbert on a Sunday.
I’m not a football fan at all but did rather like STERLING. Other faves inc MUMPS for the credible surface, LONSDALE BELT for the anagram spot, SNAKE-OIL which made me laugh, particularly as I am somewhat follically challenged, WINO for the ‘apparently’ clue, SEXTON for its simplicity, INCESSANT for another lovely surface, WHACKO and ENTERTAIN for their smoothness and RALEIGH for another neat anagram.
I didn’t think of it at the time of solving but I believe Ian @3 makes a fair observation. Filbert has solid dictionary support – Chambers second def for sedan is ‘litter’. But the defs for litter all refer to a couch which implies recumbency. Ho hum.
Thanks Filbert and flashling
Thanks for the puzzle Filbert – Bert had a good laugh when he solved 5d declaring that you are obviously not a cook. There’s not a granule in sight in our household when we make gravy.
Thanks flashling.
I had never heard of the LONSDALE BELT, and, having now looked it up, it’s no wonder–I despise boxing, and I’m not British. But once I put in the BELT bit and had the crossers, it was the only arrangement of the remaining letters that made a plausible British-y name.
Always surprised to see a baseball surface in a British crossword, but I think Frankie G is right that the clue for STRIKE OUT works better in that context. Of course, the baseball analogies of yesteryear are the cliches of today, and the cliches crossed the Atlantic more successfully than the sport they came from did. So you can therefore strike out at many non-baseball related activities (hitting on people at bars, for example, not that that’s ever happened to me…).