Financial Times 16,555 by GOLIATH

16 comments on “Financial Times 16,555 by GOLIATH”

1. What a good puzzle, with unusual or original cluing everywhere I looked. Thanks to Goliath and Turbolegs — it may have been harder to blog than to solve, I suspect. I really liked 22D, the cross-reference  at 16/19A and the pairs at 6/26 and 29/30. I needed the blog to parse postcode. In 13A (repidity), I also read it as E being an abbreviation for error. I don’t know if a dictionary confirms it, but in America E=error on ballpark scoreboards.

2. Thanks fir parsing ASCITES-I failed to factor in the elipsis

   As for ACROSTIC should get a prize for weirdestclue.

   Thanks Goliath and Turbo

3. Thanks to Tubolegs and Goliath

   13a is a Goliath “decapitation” clue (t)error, (t)repidity

4. Thanks for parsing ASCITES-I failed to factor in the elipsis

   As for ACROSTIC should get a prize for weirdestclue.

   Thanks Goliath and Turbo

5. Goliath up to all his tricks today – hugely enjoyable. Far too many ticks to list.

   Many thanks to Goliath for all the fun and to Turbolegs for the blog.

6. What a wonderful puzzle to get stuck into on a Friday afternoon. Too much to enjoy here to enumerate all the favourites from the variety of the clues and witty pairings to the inventive, often cheeky, wordplay. Thanks, Goliath, it was well worth the trouble and for Turboleg’s much appreciated efforts.
   Dansar’s explanation for 13ac is welcome.

7. I loved the acrostic, marred only slightly by the fact that the last 2 lines don’t rhyme but that’s my trade & I’m overly picky about these things.
   Many lovely devices including the splitting of “in spire” and the American bottom thing, although the ASCITES took some flushing out (yuck).
   Great entertainment. Thanks to both.

8. I knew there was something more to 13a than just ‘e’ being a ‘wrong’ letter but couldn’t work it out. The explanations given by ub @1 and Dansar @3 both sound plausible to me, but I couldn’t find E for ERROR in a couple of (admittedly not American English) dictionaries I looked at, so Dansar’s “decapitation” clue idea is most likely what was meant.

   Yes, ACROSTIC was very clever but my favourite bit was the ‘musical problem’ in MARINA.

   Thanks to Goliath and Turbolegs

9. I’m sure Dansar’s right about ERROR: as s/he says, it’s one of Goliath’s trademarks.

   I meant to say that I loved the musical problem, too.

10. Witty puzzle with great cluing.   ACROSTIC, CHEVRON and MARINA all favorites!

11. Smashing crossword! But Turbolegs what’s the meaning of FF: 9 DD: 9 ?

12. Thanks Goliath for what turned out to be my favorite puzzle of the week. Reasons include the great surface in 21a to yield the hidden CHEVRON, ATONE, OUTLAW, and the witty ACROSTIC. Thanks Turbolegs for parsing — I could not figure out POSTCODE on my own.

13. This kept us on our toes right to our LOI which was TECHIE.  So much to like we can’t really pick a favourite but we liked the necessary use of ellipses between 16 and 19, as well as using 12 as the definition for 1/5.  But we needed Dansar’s comment to see the parsing of ERROR.

    Thanks, Goliath and Turbolegs – and Dansar too.

14. Thanks Goliath and Turbolegs

    Cracking puzzle that took a couple od sessions to get the grid filled and then some to understand how the wordplay worked.  Didn’t pick up on the insertion into SPIRE trick with 1,5a and didn’t see the [T] removal from ‘rapidity’ at 12a.

    Loved the diversity of the clue structures in the puzzle which kept me on my toes for the entire solve.  ASCITES was the only new term, which was the last in after getting the very clever ACROSTIC clue.

15. Thanks all, for stopping by. Great to see a good FT challenge get the interest it deserves.

    Dansar@3, Thanks for the help with 13a.

    Barbj@11 – Ref your query, see https://www.fifteensquared.net/2014/08/08/financial-times-14695-by-goliath/. Sheer coincidence that I started this with a puzzle from the same setter, almost exactly 6 years ago.

    Regards,

    TL

     

16. Thanks Turbolegs

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