Bradman for me yet again. From next week onwards, I am going to keep a running tally of who I get on Fridays just for kicks – as of now, Bradman is way above the rest!
Decent puzzle this – pleasant cluing and easy to work through most of them. This would be appropriate fare for someone starting out on the FT.
| Across | ||
| 1 | GENOCIDE | Large-scale killing, gosh, with no detectives to probe it! (8) |
| GEE (gosh) with NO CID (no detectives) | ||
| 5 | ETHNIC | Cultural moral code involving knight (6) |
| ETHIC (moral code) involving N (knight) | ||
| 9 | OUTRAGED | Old university facing terrible event, almost completely shocked (8) |
| O (old) U (university) TRAGEDy (terrible event, almost) | ||
| 10 | DEACON | Junior minister and senior one holding firm (6) |
| DEAN (senior minister) holding CO (firm) | ||
| 12 | CANDIDATE | Frank, mischief-maker who tries to get elected? (9) |
| CANDID (frank) ATE (mischief-maker, greek god of mischief) | ||
| 13 | ASTOR | Female politician as Conservative falling short (5) |
| AS TORy (As Conservative, falling short; after Nancy Astor – first woman to sit in the House of Commons) | ||
| 14 | AHOY | Sailor’s cry from a Scottish island (4) |
| A HOY (a Scottish island, Hoy is an island in Orkney) | ||
| 16 | BARONET | British portraits possibly including one Sir Somebody-or-other? (7) |
| B (British) [ ART (portraits) including ONE ] – Lowest order who can use the title ‘Sir’ | ||
| 19 | RELAXED | Relative given the push is not uptight (7) |
| REL (Relative) AXED (given the push) | ||
| 21 | VISA | Endorsement of view with little time wasted (4) |
| VIStA (view, with time wasted) | ||
| 24 | SCRAM | Start of summer – pack and go away (5) |
| S (start of summer) CRAM (pack) | ||
| 25 | MARCH PAST | Tense after month’s military exercise (5,4) |
| PAST (Tense, a type of) after MARCH (Month) | ||
| 27 | BLOTTO | Drunk bishop joins gambling game (6) |
| B (bishop) LOTTO (gambling game) | ||
| 28 | MARRIAGE | Union? Spoil one with anger around? (8) |
| MAR (spoil) [I (one) with RAGE (anger) around)] | ||
| 29 | RESORT | Once again select holiday destination? (6) |
| RE (once again) SORT (select) | ||
| 30 | STRESSED | Insisted on passing sweets around (8) |
| DESSERTS (sweets, reversed) | ||
| own | ||
| 1 | GROUCH | Complaint from Greek that was painful (6) |
| GR (Greek) OUCH (painful) | ||
| 2 | NOTING | Observing nowt, having lost heart (6) |
| NOThING (nowt, losing heart) | ||
| 3 | COATI | Fur maybe on one wild animal (5) |
| COAT (Fur, maybe) on I (one) | ||
| 4 | DIETARY | Languish before attempt to eat a restricted amount of food (7) |
| DIE (languish) before [TRY (attempt) eating A] | ||
| 6 | THESAURUS | Crossworder’s aid the man’s brought into The Bull (9) |
| HE’S (man’s) in TAURUS (Bull, zodiac sign) | ||
| 7 | NICOTINE | Poison in old container with pleasant packaging (8) |
| [O (old) TIN (container)] in NICE (pleasant) | ||
| 8 | CONCRETE | Study island’s building material (8) |
| CON (study) CRETE (island) | ||
| 11 | BEEB | Broadcaster has to be looking in two directions (4) |
| Slang for BBC, looking in two directions is an allusion to a palindrome | ||
| 15 | HEXAMETER | Bit of verse there for translation – test being tackled (9) |
| Anagram of THERE around EXAM (test) | ||
| 17 | CROSSBAR | One of two on football field getting angry, facing ban (8) |
| CROSS (angry) BAR (ban) | ||
| 18 | GLORIOUS | Strange girl amazingly full of love gets round you and me (8) |
| [Anagram of GIRL (amazingly – anagrind) around O (full of love)] O (round) US (you and me) | ||
| 20 | DAMP | Democrat, a politician seen as a bit wet (4) |
| D (Democrat) A MP (a politician) | ||
| 21 | VARIANT | Very short song books in church, not of the usual type (7) |
| V (very) ARIA (short song) NT (books in church) | ||
| 22 | SALADS | Food provided by junior salvationists? (6) |
| SA (Salvationists – salvation army) LADS (junior) – I would have liked for something more concrete/suggestive of the order of the words. | ||
| 23 | ATTEND | Be present when last thing comes through the airwaves (6) |
| END (last thing) comes through (moves to the end) after ATT (in reference to AT&T, the american telco – referenced by airwaves) / As Geoff opined, the more likely parsing is sounds like AT END (last thing comes through) with the airwaves reference being an indicator of the homophone. | ||
| 26 | HORSE | Animal sounding croaky (5) |
| Sounds like ‘hoarse’ – croaky | ||
*anagram
Yes, I agree as I am fairly new to the FT. I found this one very straightforward, except I started 22d with Salami, before re-reading the clue!
Yes, Bradman always delivers a breakfast treat. Not too difficult, and pretty good surfaces. I’m ashamed to say I breezed through until I hit 30ac STRESSED. The solution was clear, but I had to come back again to work out the reason. Thanks, Turbolegs.
Bradman says thank you and shamelessly advertises his thematics in today’s Telegraph and tomorrow’s Guardian and Independent ( three different themes appearing close together by a lucky accident from someone who doesn’t set that many of them!).
Very nice puzzle, with few problems.Bradman appears to have learned to be a bit more polite after last week’s outburst in the Telegraph.
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
11dn: I took this as BE + (BE reversed)
22dn: For the order here, SA LADS would be lads belonging to the SA, hence junior salvationists.
Bradman is always polite, but that Giovanni in the Telegraph, well… !
Well, now I am very curious about what’s going to happen in tomorrow’s Guardian!
Meanwhile, this may perhaps be a friendly puzzle, appropriate for starters too, but I am as ever impressed by the effortlessness [if that is a word 🙂 ] of the cluing.
The Picaroons, Arachnes, Lorosos, Monks, Nutmegs and Imogens of the World may be my real heroes, I will never skip a DM puzzle.
Quality.
Inspirational.
Many thanks, Turbolegs, for the blog.