Financial Times 14,040 by PHSSTHPOK

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For some reason there was no blog for the FT yesterday, so here is my effort…

Hold the mouse pointer over any clue number to read the clue.

Across
1 EUROSCEPTIC (OCCUPIER SET)*
7 GAS double defintion
9 DAMNS N (indefinite number) in DAMS (bars,blocks) – definition ‘convicts’
10 MAKESHIFT double definition
11 NONPLUSES NONE (noboby) S (succeeded) takes in (wins) PLUS (bonus) – definition ‘puzzles’
12 SIEVE I (one) in SEVE Ballesteros – definition ‘strain’
13 EDIFICE IF (providing) taken in by (is earned by) E (online) DICE (bet) – definition is ‘pile’
15 NEED NEE (born) D (died)
18 KRIS K (king) with SIR (knight) reversed – definition is ‘dagger’
20 PALOOKA A LOOK (spy) in PA (Panama) – definition is ‘bungler’
23 OPENS O (love) PENS (confines)
24 LIMESTONE LIMES (fruit) TONE (colour)
26 INTERFACE (REINFECT A)* device=anagram
27 RAISE sounds like (on the radio) “rays” (beams)
28 HOT sHOT (photo) with S=special omitted
29 EVENING STAR EVENING (becoming smooth) STAR (celebrity)
Down
1 ENDANGER END ANGER (so bring peace) – definitio is ‘hazard’
2 ROMANTIC ROM (computer memory) ANTIC (hanky-panky)
3 SISAL S (success) IS AL (always) An ingredient of succesS IS ALways – fibre that string is made into string.
4 EN MASSE MASS (church service) in E, N and E (directions)
5 TAKES ON TAKE (kidnap) SON (child)
6 CAST STEEL STEEL CAST (set into a new shape) makes SLEET
7 GUIDES U (university) in Andre GIDE’S – definition is ‘tutors’
8 SETTER cryptic definition
14 IN RESERVE IN (fashionable) RESERVE (book)
16 MOTORIST One who takes (in this solution you will find) … OR (otherwise) in (acompanying) MOT (driving test, sort of) and IST (first) – definition is &lit I think
17 CAMELEER Over CAME is LEE containing (being cut by) R (river) part of (a cutting from) oveCAME LEE River
19 SALTATE SALT (season) ATE (wore away) – definition is ‘spring’ meaning jump
20 POMPEII starting letters of Panic Once Major Planetary Eruption Inundates Inland
21 POLISH double definition
22 BEAT IT “a small bird might BE A TIT”
25 SCRAG S (small) BLUFF (crag)

*anagram

4 comments on “Financial Times 14,040 by PHSSTHPOK”

  1. Bryan
    #1 - Wed 27th Jun 12, 14:49

    Many thanks, PeeDee, for riding to the rescue.

    I’ve never heard of CAST STEEL previously, only CAST IRON but it was nice to know thet I had guessed correctly.

    Also, many thanks Fishpok – which is how I pronounce your otherwise unpronounceable alias.

  2. Steve
    #2 - Wed 27th Jun 12, 14:55

    Thanks PHSSTHPOK and PeeDee for stepping into the breech. It took me a while to sort out the anagram at 1 across. There’s a minor typo at 18 across – should be ‘K’ for king. Also, I thought 3 down was a container: succesSISALways. Also, for 5 down you parsed this correctly but wrote in ‘TAKES UP’ rather than ‘TAKES ON’

  3. Ernie
    #3 - Wed 27th Jun 12, 18:09

    17D
    I took this just to be part of the consecutive letters (cutting) of
    (over)CAME LEE R(iver)

  4. PeeDee
    #4 - Wed 27th Jun 12, 18:25

    Thanks Steve and Ernie, these are much simpler explanations than my rather cumbersome ones.

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