Financial Times 16,507 by CHALMIE

13 comments on “Financial Times 16,507 by CHALMIE”

1. “The Eagle has landed”. Took me a while to see that.

2. Tough by Chalmie’s standard, I thought. And, sorry Hovis, I still don’t get 21ac LEM. Thanks, TL, for the hard work and Chalmie for the enjoyment.

3. Thanks TL.

   The Eagle which landed was a Lunar Excursion Module.

4. Good fun, although perhaps a bit of a shame that the theme was so overt. Still, enjoyed looking up the strangely-named revolutions I didn’t know; there were several.
   LEM & IPO were clever abbs I’d not seen before. Always something new.
   Thanks very much to Chalmie & Turbolegs.

5. @Grant

   Having thought about the strangely-named revolutions, most of which I’d never heard of either, I thought the best thing to do was simply to list them to say, as it were, “Did you know all these were names of revolutions?” – partly in the hope that some would do as you did and look them up to find out.

6. Thanks Turbolegs.
   Did not complete this, as I have Couloured for 1d, a national character (classification) in former South Africa and coloured revolutions in the USSR break-up

7. Thanks, Chalmie, for a satisfying and enjoyable workout today. Starting in the NE corner and working clockwise, I was alert to the theme once UMBRELLA popped up. As it’s my neck of the woods, it was gratifying to spot FISHBALL with which I was familiar. Really kicked myself for failing to spot 30ac though. Thanks Turbolegs

8. Thanks Chalmie for a most enjoyable and educational crossword. I was only familiar with two of the revolutions so some exploration’s in store. Enjoyed CULTURAL, PEACHY, and SCHNITZEL, the latter for its amusing surface. Thanks Turbolegs for parsing — in SITS BY, how does HOB mean “range?”

9. An enjoyable and not too taxing solve, particularly once we got 6dn, although we weren’t too sure where/when some of the REVOLUTIONs occurred.  OLLAV and the abbreviation IPO were new to us but easily confirmed in Chambers.  It wasn’t clear at first whether 25ac was ODER or REDO (unless the latter is enumerated 2-2) but at least the crossing letters settled the issue.

   We liked ANIMIST and SHERPA.  Incidentally Bath (the place) is a spa – at any rate the railway station is still called Bath Spa, although the other station, Green Park, closed over 50 years ago.

   Thanks, Chalmie and Turbolegs

10. Tony@8: A hob, something to cook on, may be part of a range (a cooker such as an Aga).  An example of the figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole or vice versa?

11. allan_c @10 Thanks. Could one call a control dial on such a thing a hobnob? Sorry!

12. Tony, I liked your word play!

13. Thanks Chalmie and Turbolegs

    Entertaining puzzle that I didn’t get to until the weekend and didn’t check until today.  6d was close to the end of the solve so the theme was notionally of no help and only knowing two of them off the top of my head, practically it wouldn’t have helped anyway – still an interesting learning exercise post solve.

    Wasn’t able to parse RIP OFF – know of IPO but for some reason just couldn’t see it staring out at me – was fixated on the IP component only.  Hadn’t heard of OLLAV and had to check what that was when the word play suggested it.  Particularly liked the cryptic directions for SITS BY and SHERPA.

    Finished with three of the down clues in the NE corner – SHEARS, that OLLAV and VELVET.

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