A mostly straightforward challenge from a familiar setter on a Friday. Thanks Bradman !
FF: 8 DD: 8
| Across | ||
| 1 | MEADOW | What could be mowed – a ——! (6) |
| semi &lit; MOWED A* | ||
| 4 | GRIMACES | Scowls from operatic Peter grabbing Bill (8) |
| GRIMES (peter, operatic, referring to the opera peter grimes by benjamin britten) containing AC (bill) | ||
| 9 | SPRIT | Pole showing courage, one ousted (5) |
| SPIRiT (courage , without I – one) | ||
| 10 | TOODLE-PIP | Last word from pilot, dope flying all over the place (6-3) |
| PILOT DOPE* | ||
| 11 | RECOVER | Get back with dog, having crossed St Paul’s area? (7) |
| ROVER (dog) containing EC (st paul’s area, london) | ||
| 12 | VESTIGE | From harvest I get a small amount (7) |
| hidden in “..harVEST I GEt a ..” | ||
| 13 | NOON | Time for numbers to face each other (4) |
| cryptic def; face each other referring to mirroring the letters for numbers (NO) | ||
| 14 | HANGINGS | Changing some, but not all, decorations (8) |
| hidden in “cHANGING Some..” | ||
| 17 | SIMULATE | One Greek character in bluish- grey is mimic (8) |
| [ I (one) MU (greek character) ] in SLATE (bluish grey) | ||
| 19 | DADA | Father of art movement (4) |
| double def | ||
| 22 | RANGOON | Asian city managed to endure (7) |
| RAN (managed) GO ON (endure) | ||
| 24 | BACK END | Footballer getting goal in the last few minutes? (4,3) |
| BACK (footballer) END (goal) | ||
| 25 | MAGDALENE | College dean, male drunk outside back of building (9) |
| DEAN MALE* around G (back of buildinG) | ||
| 26 | ANION | One’s charged – before long one’s imprisoned (5) |
| I (one) in ANON (before long) | ||
| 27 | TETHERED | Heartless type, the leftie must be restricted (8) |
| TE (TypE, without inner letters, heartless) THE RED (leftie) | ||
| 28 | VERGER | Man, one ordained, set about lay worker (6) |
| REG (man) REV (one ordained), all reversed | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | MISPRINT | Motorway dash that may make man mad (8) |
| MI (motorway) SPRINT (dash) | ||
| 2 | ATROCIOUS | Actors somehow stifling vowels – terrible! (9) |
| ACTORS* containing IOU (vowels) | ||
| 3 | OCTAVE | Eight-day event in autumn month on avenue (6) |
| OCT (autumn month) AVE (avenue) | ||
| 5 | ROOT VEGETABLE | Food to go, ever put out where it ought be put out (4,9) |
| TO GO EVER* TABLE (where food ought to be put out) | ||
| 6 | MALISON | Country boy’s old-fashioned curse (7) |
| MALI (country) SON (boy) | ||
| 7 | CAPRI | Island included in their package travelling north (5) |
| hidden , reversed in “.. theIR PACkage..” | ||
| 8 | SUPPER | Meal is excellent, quietly eaten (6) |
| SUPER (excellent) containing P (quietly) | ||
| 10 | TURN A BLIND EYE | Involved in blunder, ye act heartlessly and refuse to acknowledge what’s wrong (4,1,5,3) |
| IN BLUNDER YE AcT (heartlessly)* | ||
| 15 | SLAVERING | Group of oppressed workers foaming at the mouth? (9) |
| cryptic def; read as SLAVE RING (group of oppressed workers) | ||
| 16 | GARDENER | A road beset by various green bits? Maybe I’ve planted things (8) |
| [A RD (road)] in GREEN* | ||
| 18 | MOORAGE | Barren spot – it takes time to establish a firm connection (7) |
| MOOR (barren spot) AGE (time) | ||
| 20 | PROMPT | Concert starts with piano trio on time (6) |
| PROM (concert) PT (starting letter of “..Piano Trio..”) | ||
| 21 | ICE AGE | I, wise man, said the ground would be frozen now (3,3) |
| sounds like I SAGE (wise man) | ||
| 23 | NIGHT | Darkness is near, light’s ending (5) |
| NIGH (near) T (lighT, last letter) | ||
*anagram
Loved MISPRINT.
Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs.
Yes pretty simple . Thanks Don and TL.
Typo in 15d: Should be ‘Slavering’
Given that the largest city in Myanmar is now called Yangon I think 22ac should read ‘Old Asian city managed to endure’.
Thanks Steven@2, fixed the typo.
TL
Loved it. Loin was Magdalene because I went to the place without the redundant ‘e’. Thanks Don & TL
Thanks to Bradman and Turbolegs. Lots of fun. I proceeded quickly but never managed to parse VERGER.
Thanks Bradman and Turbolegs
The last of the Queensland backlog and whilst filling in the grid may have been relatively straightforward, I found a number of the clues quite difficult to parse. These included 9a, 11a and 28a.
A couple of new terms – OCTAVE (with this meaning), MALISON and SPRIT
Thought that MISPRINT was the clear standout clue of the day.
Finished in the NW corner with SPRIT (where I had an unparsed STRUT for quite a long time until sense prevailed), RECOVER (which took a while to parse properly) and MISPRINT (which drew a minor belly laugh when I eventually saw the answer).