Azed No 2104
Posted by bridgesong on October 7th, 2012
Another straightforward puzzle from Azed, with the usual quota of obscure and historic words, necessitating many checks in Chambers. I haven’t attempted to explain the meanings of the answers, just tried to show the wordplay. Here’s a link to the pdf of the puzzle.
| Across | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRS MOP | M in *PROMS. “Daily” is the definition. |
| 6 | SESELI | Hidden (as the clue says, no double bluff here) in “roses (Elizabethan)”. |
| 11 | AIKONA | IKON in AA (a Hawaiian word for volcanic rock). |
| 12 | INULIN | I NUL(l) IN. |
| 13 | BUTTER-BOAT | BUT, 0 in *BATTER. |
| 14 | GIRN | R in GIN. |
| 15 | KOINE | 0 in KINE. |
| 16 | TESTERN | SET(rev), TERN. |
| 18 | RED SANDERS | *SAD in RENDERS (delivers). |
| 20 | PORNOTOPIA | *(POOR PANTO I). |
| 24 | AGONIST | ON in A GIST. |
| 25 | ALOUD | Sounds like “allowed”. |
| 27 | ARIA | (M)ARIA. |
| 29 | TENNANTITE | Sounds like “tenon tight”. |
| 30 | EPOCHA | H(enry) in A COPE (rev). |
| 31 | A TERRE | ERR in ATE. |
| 32 | RESETS | S in STEER(rev). |
| 33 | WESSEX | WES(ley Hall) SEX. Wes Hall was a famous West Indian fast bowler in the 1960s. The Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy need no reference from me. The clue as a whole has a lovely surface. |
| Down | ||
| 1 | MANG | MANG(led). |
| 2 | RIPIENO | RIP ONE I(rev). |
| 3 | MOUNTENAUNCE | *(MENU AUNT ONCE). |
| 4 | ON THE DOT | THE in *TONDO. |
| 5 | PATH | PATH(ology). |
| 6 | SIENNA | SI(cily), ENNA. |
| 7 | SUBORDINATES | 0 in *BUS-RID(e), NATES (slang for the buttocks). |
| 8 | ELOIN | A compound anagram, but not easy to spot at first glance: take “me” from the letters of ” one mile” and rearrange what’s left. |
| 9 | LIANG | Hidden in “Mongolian government”. |
| 10 | INTELSAT | IN *LATEST. |
| 16 | TAP WATER | WAT in TAPER. |
| 17 | UNPOLITE | LOP(rev) in UNITE. |
| 19 | ROSIERE | OSIER in RE. |
| 21 | TANNAS | T(ense), ANNAS. |
| 22 | CLEPE | Hidden in “Uncle Pete”. |
| 23 | MONOS | ON in MO(ment)S. |
| 26 | STAW | ST(r)AW. |
| 28 | AMEX | EXAM with its two parts reversed. |
October 7th, 2012 at 12:42 am
Thank you for thw blog.
25ac
The entire clue seems to me to be be a cryptic for the answer — but the definition seems to be ‘for audience’.
Reading ‘for [an] audience’ is reading ‘aloud’.
Definitions and cryptics do not usually partially overlap, but anything goes if you add a question mark to the clue.
26d
‘It’ in the clue refers to the word STAW, but what does ‘that’ refer to?
straw for ‘wherein to stable ky’?
October 7th, 2012 at 8:33 am
Norman @1: you’re right about 25ac. The definition and the cryptic element do overlap. I also agree with your suggestion about 26d.
October 7th, 2012 at 9:29 am
Thanks Azed for the usual high standard of puzzle and bridgesong for the blog.
Further to earlier comments on 25ac, I think “Acknowledged to audience” works as a definition of ALOUD, which makes the clue work as a complete “& lit” clue.
October 7th, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Thanks all
Slightly more difficult* and hence more enjoyable than average.
Last in was ‘testern’ because I had failed to look up the alternative meaning for ‘tizzy’ in Chambers.
I used the same reasoning as NH for both clues.
* and hence today’s was delightful.
October 7th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
* and hence today’s was delightful.
Absolutely. Fabulous.