Now that Friday’s puzzle has been added to the FT website here is a quick analysis of the clues.
Across
1 JURIST RIS[k] (much danger) in JUT (project)
4 AMPERAGE A MP (a politician) E[xpenses] RAGE (anger)
10 NOVELTIES *(TELEVIS[i]ON)
11 GAUZE U (acceptable) in GAZE (look)
12 BORE triple def.
13 RESENTMENT SENT (dispatched) MEN (troops) in [f]RET (worry, not at start)
15 NAIVETY NA[t]IVE (resident with no time) T[he] Y[ard]
16 REEFER REF (judge) EER (always) reversed
19 EGRESS [r]EGRESS (go back initially missing)
21 EXTREME EX (former) M (motorway) in TREE (plant)
23 GOOSEBERRY GOOSE (silly person) homophone of ‘bury’ (hide)
25 AGIO I in AGO (past)
27 EXTRA hidden in ‘sEX TRAde’
28 TREATMENT EAT (destroy) M[icrobes] in TRENT (river)
29 SCREENED RE (engineers) in SCENE (picture) D (degree)
30 SEANCE SEAN (Irishman) CE (church)
Down
1 JUNK BOND JUNK (refuse) BOND (join)
2 REVERTING EVERT (tennis champion) in RING (buzz)
3 SILO SIL[t] (deposit almost) O (nothing)
5 MISHEAR IM reversed SHEAR (stress)
6 EIGHTEENTH *(TIGHTEN HEE[l])
7 AMUSE A (answer) E (energy) SUM (problem) reversed
8 EVENTS T (time) in EVENS (quits)
9 FINERY N (new) in FIERY (passionate)
14 DEGENERATE D E (poor grades) *(TEENAGER)
17 EVERGREEN cd
18 DELOITTE D (daughter) *(TO ELITE)
20 SHEATHE SHE (lady) A THE (articles)
21 EARNER [l]EARNER (student, not initially)
22 AGREES RE (note) in AGES (a long time)
24 OUTER *(ROUTE) (cycling course)
26 STYE STY[l]E (pattern’s left out)
Hi Gaufrid
Thanks for filling in for me for the Friday puzzle’s blog. I hope that FT fixes the problem of late upload of puzzles.
I got round to solving today. Enjoyed this, many clues had great surfaces especially the topical AMPERAGE clue.