Nick: Average Azed this week, 7/10 for me.
I am not sure about how ‘SA’ in 20dn works (if I am right), nor the definition in 3dn.
31ac is being too clever for it’s own good, I feel.
Having said that, there are some very nice misleading definitions in this puzzle, always a joy to solve.
BTW, this time next week, The Trafites will be on holiday for 8 days in Gibraltar – I lived there for 2 years (1969-1970), and decided to go back again for old times sake before I snuff it, so unfortunately I will not be available to reply to comments until a week later.
| Across | |||
| 1. | Bomb exploding caught rear (5) | ||
| CRUMP | C+RUMP | ||
| 5. | Teller of epic tales from Senegal about lizards (7) | ||
| SAGAMAN | AGAMA in SN | ||
| 10. | Kiss given by nasty smoocher (not the first) causing colouring in the dairy? (10) | ||
| LIPOCHROME | LIP+((s)MOOCHER*) | ||
| 12. | Ornaments may be set out on it, following silly urge I assume (8) | ||
| GUERIDON | (URGE*)+I+DON | ||
| 13. | I’ll be taken in by eccentric Scottish tinker (5) | ||
| CAIRD | I in CARD | ||
| 14. | Stingy, I’ve dismissed price (4) | ||
| COST | COST(ive) | ||
| 15. | Velocity in boat (flat-bottomed) giving chance for Jock (5) | ||
| KEVEL | V in KEEL | ||
| 16. | Salt at sea let auto (7) | ||
| TOLUATE | (LET AUTO)* | ||
| 17. | We scattered seeds round centre of tilth, typical of best gardens (8) | ||
| WEEDLESS | WE+((SEEDS*) around (ti)L(th)) | ||
| 22. | Dies wretchedly after fall, once oedematous (8) (8 | ||
| DROPSIED | (DIES*) after DROP | ||
| 24. | Anteater cross about e.g. worker density? (7) | ||
| TAMANDU | TAU(a cross) around (MAN+D) | ||
| 26. | Urban company retains such money in accounts (5) | ||
| BANCO | hidden: urBAN COmpany | ||
| 28. | Primitive dwelling like a sieve, rate-free (4) | ||
| CRIB | CRIB(rate) | ||
| 30. | Street, old, with excellent porticos (5) | ||
| STOAI | ST+O+AI | ||
| 31. | Henry’s urgent call: ‘Give us dinner with potato, properly prepared meat and eggs’ (8) | ||
| HALLALOO | 2 subs. ind. here: The misleading definition is (hooray) Henry’s urgent call (i.e. call the hounds at a hunt); (1) HALL+ALOO; (2) HALLAL+OO really, the subs. ind. lead to ‘HALLALOOHALLALOO’ – it needs an ‘or’ inserted between ‘potato’ and ‘properly’ for me to get it to work. |
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| 32. | Tortured victim under heartless Roman judges (10) | ||
| CENTUMVIRI | (VICTIM+UN(d)ER)* | ||
| 33. | Rubbish, best in tabloids (7) | ||
| REDTOPS | TOP in REDS(rubbish) | ||
| 34. | Designs instruments for money? (5) | ||
| MEANS | 3 definitions | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | Scout breaking into college cupboard? Not one eager to work overtime! (12) | ||
| CLOCKWATCHER | WATCH in (C+LOCKER) | ||
| 2. | Cracks upsetting Marie (5) | ||
| RIMAE | (MARIE)* | ||
| 3. | Contrary to current press release, tremble about losing leader (7) | ||
| UPRIVER | PR in (q)UIVER dubious definition ‘contrary to current’? No matter how far ‘upriver’ you are, there will always be something else further ‘upriver’, so you are down river to that… |
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| 4. | Hitched, as one who was to Willis B (6) | ||
| MOORED | MOORE+D – pun on Bruce Willis and his ex-wife Demi Moore | ||
| 5. | End of stage thrust exploited to get one closer? (7) | ||
| SHUTTER | ((stag)E+THRUST)* great misleading definition ‘closer’ |
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| 6. | Group’s outsider possibly providing trail snack (4) | ||
| GORP | ends of GROUP – G or P | ||
| 7. | Band of brothers, not all dynamic usually (6) | ||
| AMICUS | hidden: dynAMIC USually | ||
| 8. | One championing innovation lots moved in to copy (7) | ||
| APOSTLE | (LOTS*) in APE | ||
| 9. | Form of RSI? It is following start of niggle in most of tendon (12) | ||
| NINTENDOITIS | (IT+IS) after (N(iggle)+IN+TENDO(n)) too much video game playing can lead to RSI |
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| 11. | Recipe No. I, what Aussie has on his plate? (4) | ||
| REGO | R+EGO (No.1, ego) Aussie registration (number) PLATE, another great misleading definition |
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| 18. | With furrows to cleave turned up speed (7) | ||
| EXARATE | (AXE<)+RATE | ||
| 19. | Man in e.g. Cape Town entering markets for African music (7) | ||
| SOUKOUS | OU(SA slang for man) in SOUKS(market places) | ||
| 20. | Rust-red colouring in work, international according to art circles (7) | ||
| SINOPIA | SA(society of artists)[according to art?] around (IN+OP+I) | ||
| 21. | Taxi for hire in comparatively thin line? (6) | ||
| CABLET | CAB+LET | ||
| 23. | Cultivated cordyline in reserve (6) | ||
| SATIVE | TI in SAVE | ||
| 25. | Booby, one initially avoiding crush, tense (4) | ||
| DOLT | (i)DOL+T | ||
| 27. | Canine? That’s seen on golf club in Scotland perhaps (5) | ||
| CAIRN | C+AIRN(Scottish word for iron) Cairn terrier, a sort of &lit I suppose |
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| 29. | Grinder: one molar plays this role (4) | ||
| MANO | composite anagram: ONE MOLAR minus ROLE = (NMOA*) | ||
| … | |||
Thanks Azed for the usual entertainment and Nick for the blog.
31ac: I see no problem with this structure. I see no more need for “or” between the second and third indications in this clue than between the first and second definitions in 34ac.
3dn: Think of “upriver” in terms of motion rather than position.
20dn: This is sa secundum artem (Latin) according to art – Chambers 2011 p.1368.
Thanks both. The Henry in 31a is Fielding but it’s rather good that Hooray fits as well.
Thanks both. I found this a bit harder than recent “plains”.
I agree with Pelham B that there’s no need for an “or” or similar in 31a, but that was the clue I was interested in: I’m a bit perplexed by the “give us”; it doesn’t spoil the clue as such but doesn’t seem necessary and given Azed’s usual terseness I wondered if there was something I was missing. I was hoping to find “Hall!” meaning “Give us dinner!” (and not just “dinner”) in Chambers but didn’t. (I also agree with sidey that the primary meaning of “Henry” is Fielding.)
A harder than average Azed with some testing word-play to find. I didn’t get it all, I must confess. I disagree with Nick on 33a. I have red + tops – see redd(1).
Thanks all
Pretty regular meat from AZ.
I struggled to parse ‘cairn’ otherwise no problems.
I know the protocol so this is very vague:
In today’s (2076) AZ does something I have never seen before.
I very much look forward to the response here.
rcw@5
Most strange, indeed.
Agree with RCW and NLinF. Is he losing it? There must be another explanation.
Cheers…
Any other setter would cross-reference but one of the reasons I like AZ is because he rarely does so.