Some Monday morning fun with ZAMORCA…
Some nice clues here, with a lack of straight double definitions, and some great surfaces. Some of the parsing was a bit fiddly, but enjoyable nonetheless.
Thanks ZAMORCA!
(I believe that this is Teacow’s 100th FT blog)
ACROSS
1 Disdain Tory lure (8)
CONTEMPT
CON (tory) + TEMPT (lure)
6 Traditional roofing which is associated with church (6)
THATCH
THAT (which) associated with CH (church)
9 Mutiny of soldiers against ordinary officer (6)
REVOLT
RE (soldiers) + V (against) + O (ordinary) + LT (officer)
10 Used ropeway to carry nationalist arms (8)
WEAPONRY
(ROPEWAY)* (*used) to carry N (nationalist)
11 However, being locked in is part of sentence (4)
VERB
[howe]VER B[eing] (locked in)
As in “This sentence no verb.”
12 Special section copper’s taken in by crafty liar (10)
PARTICULAR
PART (section) + (CU (copper) taken in by (LIAR)* (*crafty))
14 Went to sleep by 12, mostly before party gets very loud (5,3)
DOZED OFF
DOZE[n] (12, mostly) before DO (party) gets FF (very loud)
16 Weep when Doctor returned letter from Greece (4)
DRIP
DR (doctor) + (PI)< (letter from Greece, <returned)
18 Bit of data from home for contract (4)
INFO
IN (home) + FO[r] (contract)
19 Learnt to fake being easy- going (8)
TOLERANT
21 Island’s soldiers engaged in specialist trial (10)
EXPERIMENT
(I (island) + MEN (soldiers)) engaged in EXPERT (specialist)
22 Anger about one’s last navel piercing (4)
RILE
RE (about), (I (one) + [nave]L (last)) piercing
24 Wishing good health to a former member of the Police (8)
TOASTING
TO A + STING (former member of the Police)
26 Feisty qualifier celebrated inclusion (6)
FIERCE
[quali]FIER CE[lebrated] (inclusion)
27 Hope for quiet when anger’s over (6)
ASPIRE
P (quiet) (AS + IRE (anger)) over
28 Take 30 minutes of the hour given for interval? (4-4)
HALF TIME
Double cryptic definition
DOWN
2 Following rampant bad smell see mouldy fat (5)
OBESE
(BO)< (bad smell, <rampant) + (SEE)* (*mouldy)
3 Foreign currency hidden in volume is problematic (11)
TROUBLESOME
ROUBLE (foreign currency) hidden in TOME (volume)
4 Satisfied a number picked up analogy (8)
METAPHOR
MET (satisfied) + A + “four” (number, “picked up”)
5 Having to cover debtor’s fine might be a great help (5,2,8)
TOWER OF STRENGTH
having TO cover (around) OWER (debtor) + F (fine) + STRENGTH (might)
6 Wagon coming back carrying soldier’s very sad (6)
TRAGIC
(CART)< (wagon, <coming back) carrying GI (soldier)
7 A cheat’s in trouble (3)
ADO
8 Evaporated milk could be in a carton (9)
CARNATION
(IN A CARTON)* (*could be)
13 The German revolutionary artist adopted by rebellion’s in custody (5,6)
UNDER ARREST
(DER (the,German) + (RA)< (artist, <revolutionary)) adopted by UNREST (rebellion)
15 Nasty old coach is receiving no team love (9)
OBNOXIOUS
O (old) + BUS (coach) receiving (NO + XI (team) + O (love))
17 Lazy animal’s had enough to eat, almost? (8)
SLOTHFUL
SLOTH (animal) + FUL[l] (had enough to eat, almost)
20 Share joint round – I would! (6)
DIVIDE
DIVE (joint) round ID (I would)
23 Stand in line backing company’s union man initially (5)
LOCUM
L (line) + (CO)< (company, <backing) + U[nion] M[an] (initially)
25 Nearly miss winter sport (3)
SKI
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