A nice mix (unless you’re anagramphobic) from the boy from Bowral this morning. I learned a couple of words, sniggered admiringly once or twice, and have a question that perhaps a Whovian could answer for me…
ACROSS
1. BAD MANNERS Spoonerisation of mad [extremely enthusiastic] + banners [flags]
6. IBIS I [one] + bis(hop) [senior cleric]
9. HAIRCUT Hair [rude show] + cut [shortened]
10. MOHICAN Hic [Latin for ‘this’] within moan [grumble]: a Mohican is, of course, both a native American and a haircut (see 9ac.)
12. FLAMBOYANT A Russian doll: boy [younger companion] within man [male] within flat [apartment]
13. LOB Lobby [corridor] minus by
15. PARSON Reversal of nos [numbers] + rap [talk]
16. RESIDING E [English] + [society] within Riding [former division of the county of Yorkshire]
18. NEONATAL Anagram of alienation minus the two is [one repeatedly]
20. OBECHE OBE [Order of the British Empire, award] + che [Guevara, guerrilla fighter]
23. SAT Very nice double definition, with sat standing for Saturday [a day]
24. IN THE CLEAR Anagram of hear client
26. ATINGLE At [by] + ingle [fireside]
27. STORAGE OR [Other Ranks, soldiers] within stage [theatre]
28. SLEW Misleadingly simple (for me) double definition
29. FLORENTINE Loren [Sophia] + (Pe)t(er) within fine [exquisite]
DOWN
1. BAHT Bath [English city] with the latter half ‘confused’
2. DAIMLER Reversal of MI [M1, motorway] within dale [valley] + r [right]
3. ACCOMMODATING Co [company, firm] within anagram of man dogmatic
4. NOTION Not I [anyone but yours truly] + on [performing]
5. RAMPAGED A + MP [politician] within raged [was angry]
7. BACILLI B [British] + a + c [cold] + ill [bad] + i [one]
8. SANDBAGGER Anagram of and beggars
11. HOT-AIR BALLOON Anagram of oho all in abort
14. UPANISHADS Pan [pagan god] + is + had [encountered] within US [American]
17. HARTNELL H(aving) + art [skill] + n [name] + ell [measure of cloth]: the definition refers, I assume, to William Hartnell, the first Doctor Who, but the &lit seems a little obscure. Number one? Put name in here – “who”? Am I missing something, Who-heads? As Bradman kindly points out below, this is nothing to do with Who, but instead refers to the couturier Sir Norman Hartnell.
19. OUTLINE Out [revealed] + line [policy]
21. CHAPATI Cha [tea] + pati(o) [paved area, minus o [nothing]]
22. CENSER Anagram of screen
25. FETE F [fine] + ete [French for ‘summer’]
Sir Norman Hartnell was a famous couturier, hence the & lit. Thanks for the blog.
Ah! Barking up thr wrong tree entirely. Thanks, Bradman, for the explanation, and of course the puzzle!
Nice.
SW took ages. Last in 17d – pearler that one. It’s been around before (maybe also as the Dr Who guy) but never clued as well as that.
Thanks both.