Financial Times 18,013 by MOO

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MOO kicks off the week…

Apologies for the lateness of this blog, I had some internet issues. A fun, and not too taxing, puzzle with some lovely surfaces.

Thanks MOO!

picture of the completed grid

ACROSS
1. What might commemorate a serious Mick Jagger? (10)
GRAVESTONE

GRAVE (serious) + STONE (Mick Jagger)

6. Reaching end of run I puff out my cheeks (4)
MOON

reaching [ru]N (end of), MOO (I)

10. Chinese kitchen assistant in A&E came to (5)
AWOKE

WOK (Chinese kitchen assistant) in A&E

11. Eastern transept under repair currently (2,7)
AT PRESENT

(E (eastern) TRANSEPT)* (*under repair)

12. Scrap report on parking (8)
PARTICLE

ARTICLE (report) on P (parking)

13. Change of wedding venue announced (5)
ALTER

“altar” = ALTER (wedding venue, “announced”)

15. Silly, like current German denial some might say (7)
ASININE

AS (like) + I (current) + “nein” = NINE (German denial, “some might say”)

17. Old-timer had sex with students in retirement (7)
SUNDIAL

(LAID (had sex with) + NUS (students))< (<in retirement)

19. Worker briefly left in old house (7)
HANOVER

HAN[d] (worker, briefly) + OVER (left)

21. Time society buried Republican’s remarks (7)
PHRASES

(PHASE (time) + S (society)) buried R (republican)

22. Dramatist recalled in Racine’s biography (5)
IBSEN

([Raci]NES BI[ography] (in))< (<recalled)

24. Woman related to Charles III? (8)
CAROLINE

Double definition

27. Debauched doctor sidles out (9)
DISSOLUTE

(SIDLES OUT)* (*doctor)

28. A fellow MI6 officer (5)
AGENT

A + GENT (fellow)

29. Cathedral city on way back welcoming top-class university (4)
YALE

(ELY)< (cathedral city, <on way back) welcoming A (top class)

30. Paper still to be delivered (10)
STATIONERY

“stationary” = STATIONERY (still, “to be delivered”)

DOWN
1. The best butter (4)
GOAT

Double definition

Greatest Of All Time

2. Love demolishing a tandoori? (9)
ADORATION

(A TANDOORI)* (*demolishing)

3. Situation Kiev entitled to conceal (5)
EVENT

[Ki]EV ENT[itiled] (to conceal)

4. Block where husband’s lying in a stupor (7)
TRANCHE

H (husband) lying in TRANCE (a stupor)

5. Crabs, little ones (7)
NIPPERS

Double definition

7. Charlie leaving secret patent (5)
OVERT

[c]OVERT (secret, C (Charlie) leaving)

8. Ants’ ritual bewildered one such as Darwin (10)
NATURALIST

(ANTS RITUAL)* (*bewildered)

9. Servant that a barrister might require? (8)
RETAINER

Double definition

14. Occasion when everything goes wrong in Barnet? (3,4,3)
BAD HAIR DAY

Cryptic definition

Barnet meaning hair in cockney rhyming slang

16. Morse perhaps making brief list (8)
INVENTOR

INVENTOR[y] (list, brief)

18. Hypocritical inner cities wrongly withdrawing IT (9)
INSINCERE

(INNER C[it]IES (withdrawing IT))* (*wrongly)

20. Tell on Dracula? (7)
RECOUNT

RE (on) + COUNT (Dracula)

21. Polish administrator putting down resistance (7)
PERFECT

PREFECT (administrator, putting down R (resistance))

23. Rope-maker’s girl heading north round island (5)
SISAL

(LISA)(LASS)< (girl, <heading north) round I (island)

25. Upset about everything, that’s plain (5)
LLANO

(ON (about) + ALL (everything))< (<upset)

26. Do wrong, forfeiting right to remain (4)
STAY

ST[r]AY (do wrong, forfeiting R (right))

6 comments on “Financial Times 18,013 by MOO”

  2. A very quick solve with only a minor hold-up with 21 down and across where we couldn’t think of ‘prefect’ or ‘phrase’ for ages. No favourite as it was all good.
    Thanks, Moo and Teacow.

  3. Thanks Moo and Teacow. I agree with Frankie@1 about the parsing of 23dn. (It was not my last one in.)

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