There must be an issue with the FT website: they have not posted any puzzles since Friday. Fortunately, the FT is the paper I read on the train this morning, so the blog will go on. A pretty easy one today from Armonie, finished well before we rolled across the Harlem River into Manhattan.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | COPIER CO (firm) PIER (support) |
| 4 | ACCOLADE C (college) O (old) LAD (boy) in ACE (master) |
| 10 | TOOTHSOME *(OTTO’S HOME) |
| 11 | CLUBS L (student) in CUBS (litter) |
| 12 | REED E (point) in RED (Trotskyite) |
| 13 | INCOMPLETE *(TEMPLE ICON) |
| 15 | CYCLONE ON (working) in CYCLE (period) |
| 16 | TOTTER T (tango, in the NATO phonetic alphabet) OTTER (swimmer) |
| 19 | CLOSER C (see) LOSER (failure) |
| 21 | CHOPPER H (husband) in COPPER (policeman) |
| 23 | EXPOSITION EX (former) POSITION (site) |
| 25 | SNAG S (small) NAG (shrew) |
| 27 | TRADE DART (rush) reversed + E (oriental) |
| 28 | LUCRATIVE *(VITAL CURE) |
| 29 | DILATORY *(DALI) + TORY (politician) |
| 30 | BRIEFS dd A “brief” is a slang term for a barrister, presumably drawn from the term for papers submitted in court (which are generally anything but brief) |
| Down | |
| 1 | CATARACT C (caught) A TAR (a sailor) ACT (exploit) |
| 2 | PROVENCAL PROVE (establish) + *(CLAN) |
| 3 | ECHO hidden in CzECHOslovakia |
| 5 | CHEROOT HERO (brave man) in COT (bed) |
| 6 | OCCUPATION dd |
| 7 | AMUSE AM (morning) USE (service) |
| 8 | ENSUED SUE (girl) in END (reason) |
| 9 | BOUNCE B (black) OUNCE (a cat) |
| 14 | CONSISTENT SIS (sibling) in CONTENT (comfortable) |
| 17 | EXPENSIVE EX (old) PENSIVE (thoughtful) |
| 18 | PROGRESS PR (prince) OGRESS (man-eater) |
| 20 | RATTLER [p]RATTLER |
| 21 | CROUCH R (king) in COUCH (Chesterfield) |
| 22 | HEATED T.E. (Lawrence) in HEAD (supervisor) |
| 24 | PEARL P (penny) EARL (nobleman) |
| 26 | LAIR L (sinister) AIR (impression) |