Financial Times 15,444 by Gaff

This morning’s puzzle is not available on the FT website yet.   I will give it some time before I go out and trying to find somewhere with a paper copy of the FT.

What a palaver!  The puzzle was not on the FT website today and the paper copy contains two mistakes in the grid, and one clue I cannot solve.  A special thank you to Stephen for posting a scanned image of the puzzle that enabled me to write this post.

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Financial Times 15,433 by DANTE

I find some of Dante’s clues quite brilliant, but then some of them I just don’t get at all. Happily the balance always falls down on the positive side for me, so I’m still a happy bunny.  Thanks Dante.

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AZED 2,321

Another enjoyable and educational tour of the forgotten corners of the English language with Azed as the guide.

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Financial Times 15,411 by CHALMIE

I was clealry not on Chalmie’s wavelength this morning as it took me an age to solve and I struggled to explain many of my answers.  Did anyone else find this a particularly opaque puzzle or am I just having an off day?

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Independent on Sunday 1,396 by Kairos

I struggled a bit with this.  I spent a lot of time looking up familiar words in the dictionary thinking “but does it really mean that?”.   Of course in every case the dictionary agreed with Kairos that it did, so well done Kairos!

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