Financial Times 18,521 by BOBCAT

BOBCAT kicks off the week… A very enjoyable, and slightly trickier than usual, Monday morning puzzle, with the expected feline Nina. Thanks BOBCAT! ACROSS 1. Linguistic classification of ‘peroration’? (4,2,6) PART OF SPEECH Double definition 8. Top spot for Athenian social influencers? (7) OLYMPUS Cryptic definition 9. Blooming sex god moving East to meet blinding Greek goddess (7) ROSEATE EROS (sex god, moving E (east)) to meet ATE (blinding Greek Goddess) 11. Comparatively rowdy number one’s reined back, cut by 50pc (7) NOISIER NO (number) I’S (one’s) + (REI[ned] (cut by 50pc))< (