Financial Times 12,717 by Cincinnus
Posted by Pete Maclean on March 27th, 2008
Some snazzy clues here but also one that I could not solve (11D)!
Across
1. SO CALLED - anagram of ALL CODES
5. SHAPES - S[tylis]H + APES (copies)
9. HESPERUS - HES (He’s) + PERU (land) + S[chooner]
10. IGNORE - anagram of REGION
12. ROLLS - double definition
13. DIRECTION - double definition
14. ISOBAR - IS (is) + O (round) + BAR (obstruction)
16. GRANITA - GR (Greek) + ANITA (girl)
18. RUN OVER - double definition
20. PAST IT - PAS (governors) + TIT (bird)
22. MAHARISHI - MA[ta] HARI (thankless spy) + anagram of HIS. Nice one!
23. TENOR - anagram of NOTE + R[ecital]
24. LUANDA - L (Lake) + U (superior) + AND (as well as) + A (a)
25. STYLISED - anagram of TIDY LESS
26. ISRAEL - LEAR + [lo]SI[ng] backwards
27. GRANDSON - GRAND (a lot of money) + [o]S[b]O[r]N[e]
Down
1. SAHARA - A (a) + RA (painter) + HAS (has) all backwards
2. CASTLES IN THE AIR - double definition
3. LEEDS - homophone
4. ECUADOR - anagram of ROAD by ECU (City University). Where does the E come from?
6. HIGH CLASS - HIGH (type of school) + CLASS (form)
7. PROHIBITIONISTS - anagram of BRITISH POSITION
8. STEINWAY - STEIN (Gertrude) + WAY (direction — from 13A)
11. TRUG - R (skipper’s last) in TUG (boat) — See comments below.
15. BEVERIDGE - EVE (female) in BRIDGE (bit of a fiddle — as in violin)
17. GRIMALDI - anagram of A DIM GIRL. Perhaps not the first Prince Albert one thinks of!
19. REST - double definition
20. PAINTER - A (a) in [Harold] PINTER
21. DRYDEN - RYDE (island resort) in D[eadly] N[ightshade]
23. TALON - hidden word
March 27th, 2008 at 3:57 am
11 Skipper’s last seen in boat getting a basket (4)
was among some three that I left unsolved.
Now, going by the wordplay,
Skipper’s last - R
seen in- container/contained ind
boat - TUG (tug-boat)
getting - T(R)UG
a basket - def?
Reaching for Chambers, I find
trug: a shallow wooden fruit-basket (Chambers)
Not surprising that this unusual word not known to me in all my reading is marked ‘dialectical’
March 27th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Bravo, Rishi! And thanks.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:32 am
The Beveridge report (published during the second World War) proposed setting up the National Health service.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Thanks, Gouldman. I did not comment on that myself because I was unsure if the Beveridge concerned was that one or a reporter in the media sense of the word whom I was unfamiliar with.