Azed 2063 – Fifteensquared

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I’m feeling even more well disposed towards Azed (and the Observer) this week than usual, having been fortunate enough to win a prize in one of the weekly competitions recently (still waiting to win a prize in the monthly competition, though). What was really refreshing was that the booktokens arrived by the Saturday, before the results had even been published!

This plain puzzle presented no real difficulties and I polished it off on a Sunday afternoon, with help as always from Chambers. Also I was again unable to use PeeDee’s software for this puzzle so here’s a link to the pdf of the puzzle for reference.

Across
1	PLUMBER’S SNAKE	LUMBERS, *SANK in PE
10	ODOR	Hidden in “good order”.
12	GET-UP	Double definition
14	NULLIPORE	N(ote) *(I PULL) OR E.
15	GREY	R in GEY.
16	ASTHENIC	*(ACHE ISNT).
17	LIMBATE	BAT in LIME.
18	INSECT	C(uba) in INSET. One of the definitions of “walker” is a stick insect, hence the question mark in the clue.
19	EDELWEISS	*(LIES, WEEDS).
22	SURETY	URE in STY.
24	CURATOR	TO in CURAR(i).
26	STAND FOR	Stanford, with the last letter brought forward.
28	IDLE	Sounds like “idol”.
29	SUBVERTER	VERT in SUBER, whick means cork.
30	CRETE	R in CETE.
31	VEIN	(ca)VE-IN.
32	UNREPLENISHED	*(RUDE INN’S HELP)




Down
1	PANGLOSSIC	PANG LOSS I C. The optimist from Voltaire’s Candide.
2	LOURIE	LOUR I.E. Also known as the Lory (e.g. in Alice in Wonderland).
3	MOLYBDENITE	*(MINED BY LOT, E)
4	BRIX	BRIX(ton).
5	ROOSE	O in ROSE; a rose can mean a paragon.
6	SORTIE	*TORIES.
7	NECESSAIRES	*SCENE, A in SIRE’S.
8	ATONES	ONE in ATS.
9	KUFIC	Hidden in haiku fiction.
11	SPAT	Last letters of “furious bust-up pa hurt“.
13	PICTURE ROD	PI CT *DOURER.
19	ERASER	(plung)E *REARS.
20	LYFULL	Y(oo)F in LULL.
21	JOLENE	JOL ENE. Jol is South AFrican slang (jolly); ENE(my). A clever clue, which I only parsed when writing the blog.
23	U-TURN	UT, *NUR. The reference is to Margaret Thatcher’s famous conference speech: see it here if you can bear to watch.
24	COBLE	COB(b)LE.
25	URVA	R in UVA.
27	DEVI	DEVI(sing).

4 comments on “Azed 2063”

RCWhiting

December 18, 2011 at 1:14 am

Thanks all
21d was last in. I was insistent that SA slang was the definition but a good clue.
Pretty much a standard Azed.

Matthew Auger

December 18, 2011 at 3:57 am

I also found the puzzle pretty easy and finished it in one sitting.

My only quibble is with 19dn. The definition must be “Bunjee” and I could accept one of “jumping” or “wildly” as indicating that “rears” is to be jumbled, but surely having both of them is excessive.