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Financial Times no.13,847 by REDSHANK

Posted by Ringo on November 10th, 2011

Oops. Problems here. I’m not sure how it’s come out in the pink paper, but the PDF puzzle I’ve got from the FT website is all to cock: rogue white squares and clues strewn here, there and everywhere. I think I’ve managed to pick my way through the wreckage okay, though.

A shame, because this is a decent puzzle. A couple of the &lits had me on my feet and applauding wildly.

ACROSS

1. NOSINESS Double definition: curiosity, and the defining characteristic of the big-beaked Cyrano de Bergerac

5. PATOISToi [a form of ‘you’ in French] within pas [‘step’ in French]; ‘with Nancy‘ seems a strange indicator for ‘in French’, though (‘in Nancy’ would have made more sense (but would, I realise, have been less cryptic))

10. SHINGLEH(arbour) within single [one run in cricket]

11. OROGENY Anagram of one orgy to give the geologic process of mountain formation

12. LIFER Hidden in reverse in featuRE FILm

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13. WAIT FOR ITW [Welsh] + ait [island] + I [1, one] within fort [castle]

14. LABOUR LEADER Anagram of euro deal blair minus i(taly) to give the post formerly held by Gordon Brown

17. ACTUALLY 18ac. IN THE GRID SECOND FIDDLE Double definition: a second violinist (fiddler) would need a bow, and Nick Clegg plays ‘second fiddle’ to David Cameron in the UK’s coalition government

21. LAUNDERERLA [Los Angeles] + (Th)underer [old nickname for the Times of London]

23. TRUROR [river] within anagram of rout(e) to give Cornwall’s only city

24. MARTYRS Anagram of R(idle)y (L)at(i)m(e)r + s(tate); the whole provides the definition (somewhat contrivedly) and alludes to the English heretics

25. AIRLINE Double definition: a hose or line that inflates something with air, and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)

26. ON SONG S(ociety) within on [working] + on + g(olf)

27. STOLIDLYLidl [German supermarket] within anagram of toys

DOWN

1. NESTLENewcastle minus w(omen) + ca [circa, about]

2. SNIFFYIf within S(tephe)n F(r)y

3. NIGERIA Anagram of regain + a The grid provides nine squares, not seven: the FINAL two squares should be ignored

4. SHERWOOD FOREST Anagram of Hoods few resort; again, the whole, alluding to the legend of Robin Hood, provides the definition

6. ALOOF O [ring] within anagram of foal

7. OVERRIDE Anagram of o(ld) driver + (verg)e

8. SHYSTERS Anagram of theyre + sss [$$$, a few dollars…]

9. ROBIN REDBREAST Anagram of b(ird) birders are not, and a third elaborate &lit (the allusion being, of course, to Erithacus rubecula)

15. ACTUALLY 16dn. IN THE GRID O SOLE MIO Anagram of a solo melody I minus the letters of lady to give the famous Neapolitan song that translates into English as ‘Just One Cornetto‘…

16. ACTUALLY 17dn. IN THE GRID ACQUIRES Sounds like a choir’s [choral group’s]

18. ACTUALLY 15dn IN THE GRID LITERAL This one’s tricksy enough even without the (appropriate) misprint: a literal is an error in printing, and sounds like (when read out: ‘as read’ is, I think, the homphone indicator, not another definition of ‘literal’) littoral, on the beach The grid provides nine squares, not seven: the FIRST two squares should be ignored

19. BURIED(C)uri(a) within bed [plot]

20. LONELY A cryptic clue for ‘lily’ might be one [I] within lly

22. DOYEN Ye [corrupted old spelling of ‘the’] within don [fellow: it could be either a fellow’s name or an academic fellow, I suppose]