Gurney is this morning’s FT setter.
I found this puzzle a bit chewy, partly down to hard to spot definitions and partly due to the parsing of some of the words (MARIONETTE and MANAGEMENT, for example). I’m not sure if TURN is right (and even less sure of the parsing).
Thanks Gurney.
| ACROSS | ||
| 1 | PIRATE |
Angry after parking not authorised (6)
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| IRATE (“angry”) after P (parking) | ||
| 4 | RESIDENT |
Trump, Biden, say, ignoring outsiders, staying at home? (8)
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| (p)RESIDENT(s) (“Trump, Biden, say”, ignoring outsiders) | ||
| 10 | RESERVOIR |
Errors I’ve corrected supply (9)
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| *(errors I’ve) [anag:corrected] | ||
| 11 | VALUE |
Worth not clearly stated — good to turn to pounds (5)
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| VA(g)UE (“not clearly stated”) with G (good) turned to L (pounds) becomes VA(L)UE | ||
| 12 | BUNK |
Eleventh sweet cake? Nonsense! (4)
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| If there were a row of buns (“sweet cakes”), each one lettered (as in BUN A, BUN B etc,) the “eleventh” would be BUN K | ||
| 13 | MARIONETTE |
Strangely at the outset referring to amazing one-time puppet (10)
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| *(rta onetime) [anag:strangely] where RTA is [at the outset] R(eferring) T(o) A(mazing) | ||
| 15 | LINEAGE |
Stock material almost mature (7)
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| LINE(n) (“material”, almost) + AGE (“mature”) | ||
| 16 | GRILLE |
For example, recalled including stream’s protective feature (6)
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| <=e,g, (for example, recalled) including RILL (“stream”) | ||
| 19 | REPAST |
Meal, concerning, tense (6)
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| RE (“concerning”) + PAST (“tense”)
I think this clue should end with a question mark, as PAST is a definition by example. |
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| 21 | FULSOME |
A little mouthful, so meaningless, insincere (7)
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| Hidden in [a little] “mouthFUL SO MEaningless” | ||
| 23 | ANSWERABLE |
Responsible — as exam questions should be! (10)
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| Double definition | ||
| 25 | MALL |
Heads for much-liked area, local, lively, this? (4)
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| [heads for] M(uch-liked) A(rea) L(ocal) L(ively) | ||
| 27 | TRACE |
Run down ultimately flat competition (5)
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| [ultimately] (fla)T + RACE (“competition”) | ||
| 28 | TANGERINE |
Colour of somewhat indignant anger in end (9)
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| Hidden in [somewhat] “indignanT ANGER IN End” | ||
| 29 | DILATORY |
Slow to make progress in diary — lot unhappy (8)
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| *(diary lot) [anag:unhappy] | ||
| 30 | FRIEND |
Saturday follows this, mate! (6)
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| “Saturday follows” the END of FRIday, so FRI-END | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | PARABOLA |
Soldier shy about a path taken (8)
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| PARA (“soldier”) + <=LOB (“shy”, about) + A | ||
| 2 | RESONANCE |
Near Scone recollected special meaning (9)
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| *(near scone) [anag:recollected] | ||
| 3 | TURN |
Move beyond bend (4)
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| Slightly cryptic definition? | ||
| 5 | EARRING |
English coming in — six missing jewellery (7)
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| E (English) + ARRI(vi)NG (“coming in” with VI (six) missing) | ||
| 6 | INVINCIBLE |
With no losses incurred, popular French wine book gets new start (10)
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| IN (“popular”) + VIN (“French” for “wine”) + (b)IBLE (“book”) getting new start becomes (C)IBLE | ||
| 7 | ECLAT |
Success story brought up, impressing Charlie (5)
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| <=TALE (“story”, brought up) impressing C (Charlie, in the NATO phonetic alphabet) | ||
| 8 | TIERED |
Cup game — Liverpool or Man Utd fan in seat like this? (6)
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| TIE (“cup game”) + RED (“Liverpool or Man Utd fan”) | ||
| 9 | LOCALE |
A cello involved in play scene, say (6)
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| *(a cello) [anag:involved] | ||
| 14 | MANAGEMENT |
Heart of Viennese team with game changing control (10)
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| *(nn team game) [anag:changing] where NN is [heart of] (vie)NN(ese) | ||
| 17 | LOOKALIKE |
Ladies maybe okay, edging away, fancy a double (9)
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| LOO (“ladies, maybe”) + (o)KA(y) [edging away] + LIKE (“fancy”) | ||
| 18 | WELL-READ |
Perhaps knowing you and I are going to study (4-4)
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| WE’LL (“you and I are going to”) + READ (“study”) | ||
| 20 | TRACTOR |
Vehicle’s course unfinished on hill (7)
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| TRAC(k) (“course”, unfinished) on TOR (“hill”) | ||
| 21 | FELINE |
Kitty’s policy — iron to start with (6)
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| LINE (“policy”) with Fe (chemical symbol of “iron”) to start with | ||
| 22 | PARTED |
Of expected standard, trendy, regularly visited Split (6)
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| PAR (“of expected quality”) + T(r)E(n)D(y) [regularly visited] | ||
| 24 | STALL |
Be evasive, spiel at first difficult to believe (5)
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| S(piel) [at first] + TALL (“difficult to believe” as in a tall tale) | ||
| 26 | HEAR |
Try expression of agreement? Not half! (4)
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| HEAR (hear) (“expression of agreement”, not half) |
Very enjoyable. I had to reveal TIERED. I’m more familiar with bunkum than BUNK.
I think TURN might be a dd?
As in , it’s your turn / move.
And to turn, is a more pronounced change of direction than bend, e.g. as in a road.
I found this a “solid” puzzle, but no stand-out pieces of setting. Quite a few clue sentences felt a bit throw-away, such the aforementioned TURN; BUNK, FELINE, REPAST.
The NE corner was a tricky group, and in the opposite corner, I bunged in FRIDAY, as in Crusoe’s mate, before seeing the error of my ways.
Thanks to Gurney & loonapick
Me@3, my error, I meant NW corner, I should have stuck to “top left”
Yep, enjoyed it, thx Gurney and loona. Did wonder quite how the ‘beyond’ worked in 3d. And éclat is interesting; you don’t say “It was a great éclat” but you can say “It launched with great éclat/success”.
TURN is double definition – “President Trump has turned eighty”.
If doing puzzle on FT website, answers are confirmed there.
Thanks Gurney, of course, next year I’ll turn/move beyond 79.
Very late with my comment since, as with much of the past fortnight, I’ve not had the chance to look at the puzzles until the evening my time.
Anyway, I liked this very much and felt pleased to see the FRI-END trick as well as BUN-K.
I did see TURN as a double definition but didn’t twig the role of ‘beyond’ until coming here (thanks for clarifying that, Gurney).
My favourite was RESERVOIR because, for once, ‘supply’ was the definition and not an anagrind.
Thanks to both Gurney and Loonapick.
Thanks for the blog , very good set of clues with lots of variety .
Like Diane@8 I always enjoy the BUN-K sort of clue .
FULSOME is very neat and has a proper definition for once .
I enjoyed the variety. It may just be me having a different sense of humour to the setter, but I thought most of the surfaces were a bit rough. I liked ANSWERABLE and FULSOME.
Thanks Gurney and loonapick
Many thanks for the excellent blog, loonapick, and thanks also to all who commented.
A delightful puzzle completed in just two passes. Enough challenge, though, for it not to be a series of write-ins.
Thanks, Gurney and loonapick.
Good fun. Finished in front of the TV after a busy day. Not much else to add. Thanks all.
The current squandering of the excellent word FULSOME is one of my pet peeves, so like Roz@9 I thank Gurney for using it properly. (The synonym I like is one of my favourite words, obsequious.)
Like ENBolI&@3, I was another Crusoe’s FRIDAY at 30a FRIEND, until a crosser made me rethink. It is an excellent clue.
Thanks Gurney and loonapick
21ac: Collins 2023 p 789 begins its entry for fulsome with “1 excessive or insincere … “, so Gurney’s clue is undoubtedly a fair reflection of the current principal meaning of this word. However, there is a fascinating discussion of the word fulsome in Fowler 2015¹ pp 332-333, from which I will quote only the remark “this word has acquired and then largely lost many senses”. The current direction of travel appears to be the revival of the original meaning, given in the Shorter Oxford 2010 p 1055 as “1 Abundant, plentiful; full, copious, rich.” This appears to date from the 14th century, and is marked obsolete, except as passing into the current sense of the word.
¹By Fowler 2015, I mean the fourth edition of Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage edited by Jeremy Butterfield and published by the Oxford University Press.
Good point, PB, but of course you are quoting Butterfield, not Fowler. The first edition doesn’t make that point, and the editions of the Concise Oxford Dictionary edited by Fowler only give the “cloying, excessive, disgusting by excess (of flattery, etc.)” meaning.
I’m confident that Fowler, if he were still alive, would agree that reverting to the original archaic meaning negates a very useful development of the word, and makes it almost redundant, when “full” means the same thing.
(At a meeting at our university our Communications Director once promised “to provide a more fulsome explanation later on”. I couldn’t resist asking why she would wish to be even more obsequious.)
Cellomaniac@16 in the interest of keeping the record straight: First, by writing the name Fowler in italics, I was reflecting the fact that the reference is to a publication not to a person.
The earliest citation for the disputed sense of fulsome in Fowler 2015 p 332 is dated 1968, so it is not surprising that the first edition of Fowler’s Dictionary, published 1926, does not mention a later trend in the meaning of the word.
For what it is worth, the Concise Oxford twelfth edition (2011, p 574) gives meanings of the adjective fulsome as “1 complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree. 2 of large size or quantity; generous or abundant.” There is a note on usage at the top of p 575 which ends “one person may interpret fulsome praise as a genuine compliment, whereas others will regard it as an insult.”