### Clue: Bronco just down the road, say, for pirate (9)
### Answer: BUCCANEER 
 ### Explanation: Definition: pirate
  **Homophone of**(say) "bucker"(a horse that bucks, which a bronco, a wild or only partially broken horse is apt to do) + "near"(just down the road from one).  I don't know whether this is a perfect homophone (very few of those I think, strictly speaking 🙂 ) and whether there's going to be a discussion similar to the one in yesterday's Guardian Cryptic – hopefully not. 
Answer: This appeared in last Tuesday's FT, and, as I often have this deja vu, I sometimes wonder if there isn't an unseen hand placing crosswords with same/similar clues/answers within any 7-day period (editors' perhaps?).