Very quickly this morning as I've got to catch a lift up to Derbyshire where I'm partaking in a weekend of murder mystery play readthroughs including the title role in Oedipus Rex, you know, because I wasn't busy enough already. Fortunately for my schedule this was atypically, nay phenomenally easy for a puzzle this late in the week: I did it on paper in noisy surroundings but still had it done in 6 minutes.
8d FOI, 7d LOI, glad to have been able to biff 22ac from S_M at the end, and to have come across 3dn in another puzzle within the last year or two. Lots of very genial clues, not sure if any will prove very controversial, but let's find out in the comments below. Thanks setter, and now, over to you lot!
| Across |
| 1 | GUMPTION - common sense: P [quietly], GUM TI ON [stick | it "back" | on] "outside" |
| 5 | MOSAIC - decorative artwork: MO SA I C [instant | appeal | I | caught] |
| 10 | MANIFESTO - policy statement: AN IF [a condition] + (SET*) ["out"] in MO [second] |
| 11 | TATTY - unkempt: homophone ["we hear"] of TATTIE ["Murphy for one", i.e. a spud] |
| 12 | DYER - one changing colour: D{rear}Y ["extremely"] + ER [I hesitate to say] |
| 13 | SACRILEGE - profanation: SAC [accountant's, i.e. CA'S, "recalled"] + E.G. [say] in RILE [anger] |
| 15 | CLAVICHORD - instrument: (OLD VICAR*) ["transported"] round CH [church] |
| 17 | CARD - double def: possibly a club / eccentric |
| 19 | ETNA - mountain: reverse of {d}ANTE [poet "from the east""loses daughter"] |
| 20 | ANTISOCIAL - disruptive: (CAT IS A LION*) ["on the rampage"] |
| 22 | CHEONGSAM - Chinese dress: CHE SAM [revolutionary | woman] "carrying" ON G [about | grand] |
| 24 | EDGY - irritable: D.G. [BBC boss] "cutting" EY{e} [viewer "short"] |
| 26 | OLIVE - woman: reverse of ["setback for"] EVIL O [wicked | old] |
| 27 | WINDBLOWN - dishevelled: WIND [orchestra members] + BLOWN [how their (wind) instruments are played] |
| 28 | LEGEND - double def: celebrity / traditional story |
| 29 | GRANDSON - young relative: ON [performing] with R [king] in G AND S [light opera] |
| Down |
| 1 | GAME - single def (?): ducks and drakes is a game, and ducks and drakes are game birds |
| 2 | MONEY-LAUNDERING - illegal activity: for which "cleaning brass" is a punny definition |
| 3 | TAFFRAIL - (something) at stern of vessel: TAFF RAIL [Welsh river | bird] |
| 4 | OASIS - area of calm: AS in OIS{e} [French department "mostly"] |
| 6 | OXTAIL - (something) in the soup: for which "a neat end" is a punny definition |
| 7 | AS THE SAYING GOES - according to proverb: (EASY*) ["awfully"] "to stop" AS THING GOES [when | obsession | departs] |
| 8 | CLYDESDALE - horse: (LADY'S LED*) ["confused"] into CE [church] |
| 9 | CONCERTI - works: ONCE RT [formerly | right] "for introduction into" CI [Channel Islands] |
| 14 | SCREECH OWL - bird: H ["beginning to" H{ide}] in COWL [cover] under SCREE [loose stones] |
| 16 | HANDSAWS - cutters: HAND SAW S [worker | observed | "first of" S{everal}] |
| 18 | HONEYBUN - sweetheart: H ["initially" H{aving}] + ONE BUN [little bread] "fed by" Y [Y{outh} "leader"] |
| 21 | INTERN - medic: TE [note] "penned by" IN RN [popular | navy] |
| 23 | MINOR - youngster: "from" {Sale}M IN OR{egon} |
| 25 | ANON - unidentified writer: AN [article] about NO [traditional drama] |
