A brisk WANDERER challenge this Friday AM. Thanks WANDERER, for the workout.
FF: 8 DD: 8
| ACROSS | ||
| 1, 6 | JOBS FOR THE BOYS | Former IT boss faces current online stink? Yes, if heartlessly restricted access to posts (4,3,3,4) |
| JOBS (former it boss, steve) FORTH (current, river) E (online) BO (stink, Body Odor) YeS (heartlessly) | ||
| 10 | HOBBS | Former cricketer, one who philosophised on the radio (5) |
| sounds like HOBBES (thomas, english philosopher); cricketer is jack HOBBS, | ||
| 11 | PUNCTILIO | Wordplay one clot misconstrued, retaining setter’s strict attention to etiquette (9) |
| PUN (wordplay) { [ I (one) CLOT ]* containing I (setter) } | ||
| 12 | ALTER EGO | Trusted friend spinning tale before about-turn (5,3) |
| [ TALE ]* RE (about) GO (turn) | ||
| 13 | BATIK | Printing process Christopher and Jack recalled (5) |
| KIT (christopher) AB (jack), all reversed | ||
| 15 | REGRESS | Go back through right exit (7) |
| R (right) EGRESS (exit) | ||
| 17 | PROVISO | Condition for face covering finally to be removed (7) |
| PRO (for) VISOr (face covering, without last letter) | ||
| 19 | NAMIBIA | First-rate bishop, one with staff all over South-West Africa once (7) |
| AI (first rate) B (bishop) I (one) MAN (staff), all reversed | ||
| 21 | ANNATTO | Female, going back and forth, put back over-the-top food colouring (7) |
| ANNA (female, going back and forth – palindrome) TTO (reverse of OTT – Over The Top) | ||
| 22 | WIGHT | Shipping forecast area of importance when going east? (5) |
| WeIGHT ( importance, without E – east ) | ||
| 24 | DOORNAIL | Lion Dora shot, according to one saying it’s dead (8) |
| [LION DORA]*; cryptic def – from the phrase ‘dead as a doornail’ | ||
| 27 | TIME LIMIT | One minute after the first Spice Girl gets into Bristol, given this no longer possible? (4,5) |
| [ { I (one) M (minute) } after MEL (spice girl) ] in TIT (bristol, cockney slang, bristol city = titty) | ||
| 28 | ENSUE | Make certain missing recipe is to follow (5) |
| ENSUrE (make certain, without R – recipe) | ||
| 29, 30 | RUSH ONES FENCES | Act with undue haste, ordering cheeses for nuns (4,4,6) |
| [ CHEESES FOR NUNS ]* | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 1, 14 | JOHN DRINKWATER | Former poet and playwright can sup Adam’s wine (4,10) |
| JOHN (can) DRINK (sup) WATER (adam’s wine) | ||
| 2 | BUBBLEGUM | Pop music perhaps a bit of a gas, when by Sweet (9) |
| BUBBLE (bit of a gas) GUM (sweet) – refers to music created specifically for children as a marketing ploy | ||
| 3 | FESTE | Fool made to look small in outdoor charity event? (5) |
| S (small) in FETE (outdoor charity event); from shakespeare’s twelfth night | ||
| 4 | REPRESS | Put-down from 15 (piano not grand) (7) |
| REgRESS (answer to 15a) with P – piano replacing G – grand | ||
| 5 | HEN COOP | Ring about enclosed cage with more than one layer? (3,4) |
| HOOP (ring) around ENC (enclosed) | ||
| 7 | OWLET | Sitting in Row L, Eton’s youngest Member of Parliament? (5) |
| hidden in “..rOW L ETon’s..” | ||
| 8, 26 | STOCKTON-ON-TEES | Cooking ten scones took little time in northern town (8-2-4) |
| [TEN SCONES TOOK T (time) ]* | ||
| 9 | STUBBORN | Persistent objections raised then supported, reportedly (8) |
| STUB (reverse of BUTS, objections) BORN (sounds like BORNE – supported) | ||
| 14 | See 1 | |
| 16 | EMBATTLE | Prepare for conflict, as doctor crashes into former PM when cycling (8) |
| MB (doctor) in EATTLE (former PM = ATTLEE, cycling implying that the last E moves to the front) | ||
| 18 | INTRINSIC | Essential to get home by train, leaving behind a second-in- command (9) |
| IN (home) TRaIN (without A) S (second) IC (In-Command) | ||
| 20 | ABDOMEN | Doctor moaned about beginning of bulging belly (7) |
| [ MOANED ]* around B (beginning of Bulging) | ||
| 21 | AGOUTIS | A problem afoot with one’s rodents (7) |
| A GOUT (problem afoot, build up of uric acid) IS (one’s) | ||
| 23 | GAMES | Relaying a message, “Is fencing in this sports event?” (5) |
| hidden in “..relayinG A MESsage..”; typically referring to the olympics when used in particular, of which fencing is a part | ||
| 25 | NIECE | Relative peace at last in French resort (5) |
| E (peacE , last letter) in NICE (french resort) | ||
| 26 | See 8 | |
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