Financial Times 12,687 by Cincinnus
Posted by Pete Maclean on February 21st, 2008
Another beauty from Cincinnus. Don’t you love 27A? Also great are 12A and 26D.
Across
1. ABOVE SUSPICION - anagram of OBVIOUS IN SPACE
10. ALGOL - hidden word
11. NARRATION - ARR (arranged) in NATION (people)
12. ESTATES - double definition
13. SHINGLE - anagram of ENGLISH
14. YALTA - LAY (deposit) reversed + TA (cheers)
16. ELEGANTLY - A (a) + NT (midwinter) + L (lake) in ELEGY (poem)
19. FREIGHTER - RE (engineer) in FIGHTER (aircraft)
20. YIELD - double definition
22. RESOLVE - double/cryptic definition
25. PILOTED - LOT (a considerable number) in PIED (sort of Piper)
27. UNTOUCHED - UN (one in Nancy) + TOUCHED (batty)
28. GROWL - GR (Greek) + OWL (bird),
29. AUDITORY SYSTEM - anagram of A MYSTERY STUDIO
Down
2. BAGATELLE - GAT[eau] (a cake cut in half) in BELLE (beauty)
3. VALET - VALE (farewell) + T[o]
4. SENESCENT - SE (area of Kent) + NE (area of Northumberland) + SCENT (fragrance)
5. SARIS - [a]S[i]A[n] R[a]I[l]S
6. IMAGINARY - I (island) + MARY (girl) with GIN (drink) inserted
7. ICING - double definition
8. NUNNERY - NUNN (director — Trevor) + ER (Queen) + [mar]Y
9. BARELY - BA (graduate) + RELY (bank)
15. ANGEL DUST - ANGEL (backer) + DUST (clean)
17. EURIPIDES - PI (constant) + RUE (regret) reversed + IDES (date in Rome)
18. TWENTY ONE - double definition
19. FORTUNA - FOR (in favour of) + TUNA (fish)
21. DODDLE - DD (divine) in DOLE (benefit). I think of DD as meaning Doctor of Divinity and am unsure how just “divine” clues DD.
23. SATED - hidden word
24. ESHER - [fr]ESHER
26. LAGOS - LA (US city) + GO (try) + S (South)
March 29th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
DD - divine (21dn)
Divine as a noun makes it just about OK I think, although a “perhaps” or some such was perhaps needed.
March 30th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Ah, yes, I see. Should have looked it up. I was thinking of divine only as an adjective or verb. Thanks, Wil!