A straightforward puzzle today. Thank you Sleuth.
| Across | ||
| 1 | MANIFESTO | Party platform given by chairman defending Ulster party? (9) |
| MAO (chairman) contains (defending) NI (Ulster, loosely speaking) and FEST (party) | ||
| 6 | PRANG | Crash arose with sun obscured (5) |
| sPRANG (arose) missing (obscured) S (sun) | ||
| 9 | LONER | Solitary figure still on errand partly (5) |
| found inside (partly) stilL ON ERrand | ||
| 10 | THEREFORE | Word of sympathy supporting European consequently (9) |
| THERE (word of sympathy) FOR (supporting) E (European) | ||
| 11 | NORTH KOREA | It’s foolish to rank hero in Asian country (5,5) |
| anagram (foolish) of TO RANK HERO | ||
| 12 | STIR | Prison disturbance (4) |
| double definition | ||
| 14 | IN FOCUS | Cousin abroad entertaining fellow with a clear outline (2,5) |
| anagram (abroad) of COUSIN containing (entertaining) F (fellow) | ||
| 15 | STOICAL | Clio sat composed and uncomplaining (7) |
| anagram (composed) of CLIO SAT | ||
| 17 | FATUOUS | Rich university attracting old American that’s stupid (7) |
| FAT (rich) U (university) with O (old) US (American) | ||
| 19 | TAVERNA | Tax reversed near exotic restaurant (7) |
| VAT (a tax) reversed then anagram (exotic) of NEAR | ||
| 20 | NOTE | Observe bit of music (4) |
| double definition | ||
| 22 | ZABAGLIONE | Dessert in a carrier left by one in area (10) |
| BAG (carrier) L (left) by I (one) in ZONE (area) | ||
| 25 | INDUCTION | Form of reasoning in prelude (9) |
| double definition | ||
| 26 | TRAMP | Hobo getting little money on public transport (5) |
| P (penny, a little money) following (on) TRAM (public transport) | ||
| 27 | ERROR | Troublesome child overlooking initial mistake (5) |
| tERROR (troublesome child) missing first letter (overlooking initial) | ||
| 28 | ANECDOTAL | Loan cadet arranged, based on hearsay (9) |
| anagram (arranged) of LOAN CADET | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | MELON | Fruit found in some London markets (5) |
| found inside soME LONdon markets | ||
| 2 | NON-PROFIT | Poor Finn treated before time – it’s typical of a charity? (3-6) |
| anagram (treated) of POOR FINN then T (time) | ||
| 3 | FOR THE CHOP | Repetitive element in river parking soon to be scrapped (3,3,4) |
| ECHO (repetitive element) in FORTH (river) P (parking) | ||
| 4 | SIT-COMS | Model with male in Greek island – a TV staple? (7) |
| SIT (model) with M (male) in COS (Greek island). it looks like there might be a singular/plural mismatch here but I think “Sitcoms are a TV staple” reads well enough | ||
| 5 | ONENESS | Son seen to fragment unity (7) |
| anagram (to fragment) of SON SEEM | ||
| 6 | PEEK | Take a look at food on way up (4) |
| KEEP (food, room and keep) reversed (on way up) | ||
| 7 | AFOOT | Current pair featuring in a paper (5) |
| OO (pair, two zero scores in cricket) inside A FT (paper) | ||
| 8 | GUERRILLA | Bandit, familiar figure in jungle reportedly (9) |
| sounds like (reportedly) of “gorilla” (a familiar figure in jungle) | ||
| 13 | CONVOLUTED | Complex book kept by enthusiast in school (10) |
| VOL (volume, book) inside (kept by) NUT inside (in) COED (a school |
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| 14 | INFANTILE | Home supporter with headwear is childish (9) |
| IN (home) FAN (supporter) TILE (a hat, headwear) | ||
| 16 | CORMORANT | Roman and Croat at sea missing a seabird (9) |
| anagram (at sea) of ROMAN and CROaT missing A | ||
| 18 | STAMINA | A route fringed by revolutionary workers showing endurance (7) |
| A MI (M1 motorway, a route) inside (fringed by) reversed (revolutionary) ANTS (workers) | ||
| 19 | TRAINEE | Elder, say, protecting first class new novice (7) |
| TREE (elder, say) contains (protecting) AI (A1, first class) N (new) | ||
| 21 | TUDOR | Tour planned to cover Dutch house (5) |
| anagram (planned) of TOUR containing (including) D (Dutch) | ||
| 23 | EXPEL | Get rid of first of pollution in river and lake (5) |
| Pollution (first letter of) in EXE (the River Exe) and L (lake) | ||
| 24 | SCAR | Mark award, nothing less (4) |
| oSCAR (award) missing O (nothing) | ||
definitions are underlined
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Thanks Sleuth and PeeDee. Re 13d, in US “coed” is a female student i.e. a noun. When referring to the noun “school” it would be an adjective. I find the clue a bit sloppy.
Also I found 6d and 7d obscure as far as the parsing was concerned. Otherwise pretty easy puzzle.
Hi john, I wasn’t sure about this at the time so I looked it up in Chambers. It gives coed as a noun meaning a girl as “chiefly N American” but coed as a noun meaning a school not so. I guess the school usage must be more of a UK thing. I have never heard coed used to mean a school myself, but then there are a lot of word in the dictionary I have never heard used in real life!
Thanks to Sleuth and PeeDee. Enjoyable. I was unsure about PEEK (“keep” = food?) and took a while spotting AFOOT (my LOI). PRANG is one of those terms not used in the US that I’ve learned from UK puzzles as is also true of the verb form of “career.” As to “coed” in the US, as an adjective it describes a school that teaches both males and females (so co-educational). As a noun it’s commonly used for a female student in a college that also includes men. I can’t remember coming across the term as a noun referring to the school itself.
I came to this late afternoon and enjoyed it.
I did not have any problem with “coed” as a school. I still have a number of friends and acquaintances whose (now) grandchildren are at private schools. To show some interest I enquire whether they are at “boys “, “girls” or “coed”. It, of course, is not a relevant enquiry in the state system.
Thanks to Sleuth and PeeDee.
Single sex schools do exist in the state sector. No problem using coed for school for me. A commonly used term.
Thanks Sleuth and PeeDee
Found this one pretty straightforward as well, getting the two hidden clues as my first couple in – and thinking that they were gimmes to get started.
I remember when ZABAGLIONE used to be my favourite dessert in the 1980’s, but it then seemed to slip off the menus in most of the Italian restaurants here – wonder if I’d still like it now. The clue brought back fond memories anyway.
PEEK was my last one in, although I’d seen it much earlier and like ACD took a while to find ‘keep’ as a term for food. Didn’t know the second definition of INDUCTION and kept trying to do something with INtroDUCTION – just gave up on that half of the parsing in the end. COED presented no problems.