Financial Times / 12709 by Flimsy
Posted by C G Rishikesh on March 6th, 2008
Across
1 NESTLE - two definitions - the accent mark on the final e in the first definition is ignored
8 PATRIOT - A trip*, to* - charade with two anagrams
11 LAWN TENNIS - lawn, in nest* - in ’snake’ (to move sinuously) we have a nice anagram indicator. The not-so-obvious def. and ’snake’ as noun in surface reading delayed the answer
12 FORM - two definitions - when I was in school I was in ‘form’ but present-day schoolboys in India are in ‘class’
20 STIR - s(t)ir - ‘finally’ goes with ‘Opponent’, not ‘caught’
23 KILOTON - kil(oto*)n - actually it’s a measure of explosive force
24 PIE-EYED - pi, E, eyed
Down
1 NGANA - from visitiNG AN Abattoir - a hidden clue that is really hidden; Chambers has definition in its variant ‘nagana’
2 STRINGY - try sing* - ‘high’ does double duty as anag. ind. and as part of def.
5 X-RAYS - no fractures here!
6 CHAFFED - cha(f)fed; when we embrace someone we had better take care!
10 INTORSION - in [tors(i)o]n - double container-contained
15 ADDICTION - addiction - ‘ground’ is noun in surface reading but verb as anag. ind.; surface reading is not very elegant, though
17 TURMOIL - t(urm*)oil
March 11th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
9A Caraway - apparantly cara + way, but where’s the ‘tropical tree almost’? Surely not carob.
26A Unison, but why, anagram of unions? But that doesn’t appear directly in the clue.
22D Grein, not a word; what has this to do with ‘long’?
March 11th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Re 22dn
Grein (green) is a Scottish word that means ‘long, yearn’.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Re 9ac
The tropical tree in question is carap. So ‘tropical tree almost’ gives the component ‘cara’.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Thanks. I see that in the OED carap is not a tree, but an oil from the carapa tree, and that grein is found in none of my dictionaries. I can’t say that I’m impressed!