Financial Times 15,705 – Falcon

Monday Prize Crossword / Nov 13, 2017

A Falcon puzzle which I found very easy but it will surely have pleased those longing for a gentle start of the FT week.

Not too challenging but there were some real crackers among the clues.

Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate.

Across
1	STAR WARS	Big names describing realistic revolutionary film (4,4)
		STARS (big names) around reversal [revolutionary] of RAW (realistic) The film that everybody seems to love but I didn’t even see. Anything with ‘war’ makes me walk the other way.
6	STRESS	Force small lock (6)
		S (small) + TRESS (lock)
9	TONGUE	Mouth organ? (6)
		Cryptic definition Only every now and then, Falcon does cryptic definitions. This one, I thought, was lovely.
10	CLAIMANT	I must interrupt noisy petitioner (8)
		I inside CLAMANT (noisy) Indeed, ‘I must interrupt’ and not just ‘I interrupt’.
11	SHOT	Crack marksman (4)
		Double definition
12	SALAD CREAM	Shriek, coming across a young man dressing (5,5)
		SCREAM (shriek) around A LAD (young man)
14	MANITOBA	Obsession consuming old boy after short time in part of Canada (8)
		MANIA (obsession) around {OB (old boy) coming after T (time, short)}
16	NAIL	Catch slowcoach heading off (4)
		SNAIL (slowcoach) minus the first letter S
18	ENID	Girl from Southwold, in England, going west (4)
		Hidden answer [from]: Southwold in England, then reversed [going west]
19	VINDALOO	After six, northern youth returns and rings for a curry (8)
		VI (six) + N (northern) + reversal of LAD (youth) + O,O (rings)
21	FUNDRAISER	Charity event Freudians organised on river (10)
		(FREUDIANS)* + R (river) n [* = organised]
22	DOCK	Cut off tail of pollock, food fish, on the way back (4)
		[polloc]K + COD (food fish), together reversed [on the way back]
24	ACCURATE	Faithful, a key member of the clergy (8)
		A + C (key) + CURATE (member of the clergy)
26	DRIVEL	Bull and steer on left (6)
		DRIVE (steer) + L (left)
27	TRENDY	Hear about object, all the rage (6)
		TRY (hear) around END (object)
28	SERGEANT	Strange arrangement involving English police officer (8)
		(STRANGE)* around E (English) [* = arrangement]
Down
2	TOOTH	Peg overly thin? Not half! (5)
		TOO (overly) + TH[in]
3	RIGHT-MINDED	Having good principles, like one thinking of voting Tory? (5-6)
		Double / Cryptic definition
4	AVERSION	Dislike a model (8)
		A + VERSION (model)
5	SICILIAN VESPERS	Slip in as service unfolds – holy day massacre results (8,7)
		(SLIP IN AS SERVICE)* [* = unfolds] For those interested in this terrible event: Sicilian Vespers .
6	SHANDY	Dubious about new drink (6)
		SHADY (dubious) around N (new)
7	RUM	Odd coming from instruments, trumpet and drums (3)
		Triple hidden answer [coming from]: instruments, trumpet, drums Quite novel – very easy though.
8	SAN MARINO	Oarsman in races representing country (3,6)
		(OARSMAN IN)* [* = races] No ‘Romanians’ this time!
13	RANK AND FILE	Ordinary workers standing together with line of people below (4,3,4)
		RANK (standing) + AND (together with) + LINE (line of people)
15	ANNOUNCER	Can one run broadcast? (9)
		(CAN ONE RUN)* [* = broadcast] 100% &lit – very good.
17	INTRUDER	Unwelcome guest at home, more ill-mannered after drop of tequila (8)
		IN (at home) + T[equila] + RUDER (more ill-mannered)
20	MALADY	Illness of mother, duchess? (6)
		MA (mother) + LADY (duchess, for example)
23	CLEAN	Completely innocent (5)
		Double definition
25	URN	What may be kept by mourner? (3)
		Hidden answer [kept]: mourner The clue as a whole is the definition … and a dark one it is.

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