Saga crossword April 2010

[marg44]

Just arrived, need some help to get started:
1a Noblemen use most of the brandy and wine (9)
8d One I get wrong, in enthusiasm for today's ethical climate? (9)
14d Money put about to sell one kind of tobacco (9)
28a The poor cabbie, finally caught by modified speed gun (4,2,3)

Thanks in advance

[slaney]

1a Mar(c)graves

[billfish]

8D) Zeitgeist
14D)Cavendish

[marg44]

Thanks, they were very hard!

[maxymax]

Hi marg44 28a is Gens de peu

[marg44]

Thanks maxy, another impossible one!

[GLENGARRY]

28a. Don't understand the solution, but the phrase is 'gens du peu'

[boxtops]

I don't know how it translates (so what it's got to do with cabbies) but Gens de Peu is an anagram of Speed Gun

[Acrosticus]

Gens de peu means "the poor". people.(definition)
Cabbie, finally is "E" - last letter
Gens de peu is an anagram of SPEED GUN + E, so "cabbie, finally" supplies the extra "E" to the partial anagram of "speed gun"