Bad tempered cook called out brother (10)

Independent Cryptic #12239 | 15 Down | 2025-12-30
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

BLACK (=bad-tempered, angry, as in a black look ) + homophone (“called out”) of “frier (=cook)”; a Black Friar is a Dominican monk, so called because of his black mantle

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