Financial Times 15,911 by FLIMSY

Lovely start to the week from FLIMSY

Our first Flimsy blog. A good mix of clue types. An enjoyable puzzle!

Across

1 Investigation after prisoner’s beating (8)
CONQUEST
QUEST (investigation) after CON (prisoner)

5 Dogs head off to get items of property (6)
ASSETS
[b]ASSETS (dogs, head off)

9 Sewed Ted’s pants without desire (8)
STITCHED
(TEDS)*(*pants) without (outside) ITCH (desire)

10 British villain’s Irish accent (6)
BROGUE
B (British) + ROGUE (villain)

12 Permission to go (5)
LEAVE
Double definition

13 Tire parent out, leaving a shed light on (9)
INTERPRET
(TIREP[a]RENT)* (leaving a) (*out)

14 Real ale with a third off after gesture by university (6)
ACTUAL
AL[e] (third off) after ACT (gesture) + U (university)

16 Soldiers eating together get old piece of information (7)
MESSAGE
MESS (soldiers eating together) + AGE (get old)

19 Scout fixed this writer’s outfit (7)
COSTUME
(SCOUT)* (*fixed) + ME (this writer)

21 Regret pinching key to get free (6)
RESCUE
RUE (regret) pinching ESC (key)

23 Embracing fashionable Conservative lord in middle of night (9)
INCLUDING
IN (fashionable) + C (conservative) + LUD (lord) + IN + [ni]G[ht] (middle of)

25 Exemplary doctor was first to return (5)
MODEL
MO (doctor) + LED< (was first, to return)

26 Editor with set of books missing cover? It’s OK to scoff (6)
EDIBLE
ED (editor) + [b]IBLE (set of books missing cover)

27 Weather factors (8)
ELEMENTS
Double definition

28 Restricted by the old method of adding colour to textiles (3- 3)
TIE-DYE
TIED (restricted) + YE (the, old)

29 In favour of religious school of opinion holding priest’s view (8)
PROSPECT
PRO (in favour of) + SECT (religious school of opinion) holding P (priest)

Down

1 Steep arch around ends of this ancient cathedral (6)
COSTLY
COY (arch) around [thi]S [ancien]T [cathedra]L (ends of)

2 Drunk causes inn problems (9)
NUISANCES
(CAUSES INN)* (*drunk)

3 Relative’s dirty article removed (5)
UNCLE
UNCLE[an] (dirty, article removed)

4 Foreign place is peculiar (7)
SPECIAL
(PLACE IS)* (*foreign)

6 Shocks gentleman with awards, we hear? (9)
SURPRISES
We hear “sir” + “prizes”

7 Composer left in anger, upset (5)
ELGAR
L (left) in RAGE< (anger, upset)

8 Cute exercises by a climber (5,3)
SWEET PEA
SWEET (cute) + PE (exercises) by A

11 Check in airports temporarily (4)
STEM
[airport]S TEM[porarily]

15 Lulu uneasy about losing energy, strangely (9)
UNUSUALLY
(LULU UN[e]ASY*) (losing energy) (*about)

17 A small cake? Bound to get plenty (9)
ABUNDANCE
A + BUN (small cake) + DANCE (bound)

18 Unfortunate incident I had, consumed by stress (8)
ACCIDENT
I’D (I had) consumed by ACCENT (stress)

20 Live with no son in retirement (4)
EXIT
EXI[s]T (live, no son)

21 Soldier’s gun almost left in lift (7)
REGULAR
GU[n] (almost) + L (left) in REAR (lift)

22 Shut lid on television cabinet (6)
CLOSET
CLOSE (shut) on T[elevision] (lid on)

24 The man’s captivated by church bell sound (5)
CHIME
HIM (the man) captivated by CE (church)

25 Acts dumb (5)
MIMES
Cryptic definition