Financial Times 14,814 by Goliath

Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of December 27, 2014

I especially like three of Goliath’s clues for two-word terms in this puzzle: 5,29 (STRING THEORY), 21,21 (BANK BALANCE) and 22,23 (HIATUS HERNIA).

It has absolutely nothing to do with this puzzle, but I recently came across an article I like that looks at the differences between British and American dictionaries. Should this topic interest you, you can find it at http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/02/british-american-attitudes-dictionaries/ .

ACROSS
1, 1 down Located faring badly round the source of the institution (8,6)
FOUNDING FATHER – FOUND (located) + THE in anagram of FARING
5, 29 Grey T-shirt on model: I can explain everything! (6,6)
STRING THEORY – anagram of GREY T SHIRT
9 Little Europeans, potentially frogs (8)
TADPOLES – TAD (little) + POLES (Europeans)
10 Fruit order (6)
ORANGE – double definition (the second referring, presumably, to Ulster’s Orange Order). Would “Order fruit” not be a better surface?
12 Represent and expand for a river in Devon (9)
EXEMPLIFY – EXE (a river in Devon) replacing ‘A’ in AMPLIFY (expand). I was unable to correctly figure out how the wordplay works in this clue. A commenter (see below) gave me the vital tip. This must be correct although I think the mechanism is poorly stated.
13 Lost out on a group of singers (5)
ALTOS – A (a) + anagram of LOST
14 Previously at midnight getting highly excited (4)
AGOG – AGO (previously) + [ni]G[ht]
16 Wise man on his own at the start of the week (7)
SOLOMON – SOLO (on his own) + MON (the start of the week)
19 A book of essentially pea-sized objects, like, is different (7)
EZEKIEL – [p]E[a si]Z[ed obj]E[cts] + anagram of LIKE
21, 21 down Black bean stew includes an available bread (4,7)
BANK BALANCE – AN (an) in anagram of BLACK BEAN
24 See 8
25 Nation suffering penalties (9)
PALESTINE – anagram of PENALTIES
27 How My Little Pony might carry my name (6)
EPONYM – hidden word
28 Like a champion bun, chewed up and swallowed (8)
UNBEATEN – anagram of BUN + EATEN (swallowed)
29 See 5
30 State requires a banker’s order (8)
NEBRASKA – anagram of A BANKERS

DOWN
1 See 1 across
2 International organisation’s no more pants (6)
UNDIES – UN (international organisation) DIES (‘s no more)
3 Go flaccid and fall in love? Just the opposite (5)
DROOP – O (love) in DROP (fall). Clever use of “just the opposite”.
4 Calling for a massage on the phone (7)
NEEDING – homophone (“kneading”)
6 Undo a plait and run for cover (9)
TARPAULIN – anagram of A PLAIT RUN
7 Very quickly to victim we half abandoned by tavern (2,2,4)
IN NO TIME – INN (tavern) + [t]O + [vic]TIM + [w]E
8, 24 Less rampaging corruption and bribery (8,5)
GREASING PALMS – anagram of LESS RAMPAGING
11, 20 Vacant galleries filled with simply awful tunics (8)
GYMSLIPS – anagram of SIMPLY in G[allerie]S
15 One who denies profit, for example, leads to engagement ring (9)
GAINSAYER – GAIN (profit) + SAY (for example) + E[ngagement] R[ing]
17 What’s up with record suitable for partner (8)
HELPMEET – EH (what) backwards + LP (record) + MEET (suitable)
18 Nice one’s not rare (4,4)
WELL DONE – double definition
20 See 11
21 See 21 across
22, 23 Hello! Suffering in area round bum? That can cause indigestion (6,6)
HIATUS HERNIA – HI (hello) + TUSH (bum) in anagram of IN AREA
26 S-sport promise (5)
SWEAR – S (s) + WEAR (sport)