My first blog of an AZED as bridgesong is away at the moment. I guess it must be at the easier end of the AZED spectrum as I completed the puzzle in a single visit, which is unusual for me.
| Across | ||
| 1 | STUFFED SHIRT | A pompous ass (12, 2 words) |
| definition – the competition clue | ||
| 9 | ART AUTRE | It included tachisme a long time back, about shipshape, right? (8, 2 words) |
| ERA (a long time) reversed (back) about TAUT (ship shape) R (right) – art movement including tachisme (random coloured blobs) | ||
| 11 | AMLA | Dancer coming from behind tree (4) |
| ALMA (Egyptian dancing girl) reversed (coming from behind) – an Indian tree | ||
| 12 | WILD | Left tucking into extra, not finished, enjoyable (4) |
| L (left) in WIDe (extra, not finished) | ||
| 13 | DRIFTPIN | Clamour about split power – it enlarges the breach (8) |
| DIN (clamour) about RIFT (split) P (power) | ||
| 14 | SQUEG | Fluctuate irregularly in grotesque gyrations (5) |
| found in groteSQUE Gyrations – irregular electrical oscillation | ||
| 15 | SPORT | Second drink leading to a bit of flirting (5) |
| S (second) PORT (drink) | ||
| 18 | DEFILER | Rotter blushing about career in retirement (7) |
| RED (blushing) about LIFE (career) reversed (in retirement) | ||
| 19 | TEARLESS | Dry-eyed aristo given run-around by tragic heroine (8) |
| EARL (aristo) with TESS (tragic heroine) outside (running around) | ||
| 23 | PROSPECT | Copper’s excited with end of beat in sight (8) |
| (COPPER’S)* anagram=excited containing beaT (last letter of) | ||
| 26 | ARIETTA | Slight strain shown by porcelain getting ‘eated inside (7) |
| ARITA (Japanese porcelain) containing ‘ET (het, hot) – a small (slight) song (strain) | ||
| 29 | MACRO | Instruction activating others buried in conundrum (a crossword?) (5) |
| found in a conundruM A CROssword – an executable list of computer instructions | ||
| 30 | ALURE | Something attractive in old gallery (5) |
| double definition | ||
| 31 | STOCKMEN | Aussie cowboys using nets with 1,000 head of cattle, OK? Not OK (8) |
| anagram (not OK) of NETS with M (1,000) C (first letter of cattle) and OK | ||
| 32 | HIPT | Like gunslinger’s pistol, murder round its muzzle? (4) |
| HIT (murder) round P (head of pistol) – worn on the hip | ||
| 33 | HORE | Old age indicating an end of hygiene? (4) |
| 34 | VINTAGES | Alternative to bridge shows signs of wear – more than one period of origin (8) |
| VINT (Russian card game, similar to bridge) AGES (shows signs of wear) | ||
| 35 | OVERESTIMATE | Emirates unusually caught by rigged vote – it errs on the high side (12) |
| EMIRATES* anagram=unusually in VOTE* anagram=rigged | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | SAW SET | Wastes broken gadget for positioning teeth (6, 2 words) |
| WASTES* broken=anagram | ||
| 2 | TRIQUETRA | Early artistic ornament from Turkey quite bamboozled artist (9) |
| TR (Turkey) QUITE* anagram=bamboozled by RA (artist) – trefoil design ornament found in early Northern European art | ||
| 3 | FADEUR | Dullness evident in current fashion, European (6) |
| FAD (current fashion) EUR (European) | ||
| 4 | FUDGE | Nonsense from the past dug out in post-school learning (5) |
| DUG* in FE (further education) – nonesense, archaic (from the past) | ||
| 5 | DRICE | Frozen granules of a kind forming diamonds on small branches (5) |
| D (diamonds) on RICE (small branches) – frozen granules of a kind (of carbon dioxide) | ||
| 6 | HATPIN | ‘Crazy’ path through what fixes cloche’s position? (6) |
| PATH* anagram=crazy IN (though) – a cloche is a type of hat | ||
| 7 | IMPOLDER | Reclaim difficult child gaining in years (8) |
| IMP (difficult child) OLDER (gaining in years) – to reclaim land from the sea | ||
| 8 | TANTRA | Religious instruction received by militant Rajputs (6) |
| found in miliTANT RAjputs | ||
| 10 | TRADER | Indiaman summoning up colourful pictures? (6) |
| RED (colourful) ART (pictures) – a ship | ||
| 16 | RED CARPET | N. Yorks resort, favourite ‘territory’ for VIPs (9, 2 words) |
| REDCAR (N Yorks resort) PET (favourite) | ||
| 17 | HALICORE | Siren, one in devious chorale (8) |
| I (one) in CHORALE* anagram=devious – a sea maiden | ||
| 20 | SOAKEN | Son’s heading for wood, rarely drenched (6) |
| S (heading of son) oaken (wood/wooden) – rarer version of soaked | ||
| 21 | CAMSHO | Jock’s disfigured his slates covering house (6) |
| CAMS (slates, Scots) on top of (covering) HO (house) – disfigured, Scots (of a jock) | ||
| 22 | MERCER | Ten of a kind taking part in summer ceremony (6) |
| found in sumMER CERemony – a trader in cloth (10 down) | ||
| 24 | PELHAM | Gym learner clumsy? A bit (6) |
| PE (gym lesson) L (learner) HAM (clumsy) – a horse’s bit | ||
| 25 | TZETSE | Does it give one temperature, with dissipated zest and energy? (6) |
| T (temperature) with ZEST* dissipated=anagram and E (energy) – definition is &lit, the tzetse fly could give you a diease | ||
| 27 | TAMIS | Wool stuff, one found in Scots headgear (5) |
| I (one) found in TAMS (Tam O’ Shanters, Scots headgear) – wollen fabric (stuff) | ||
| 28 | FANTI | France opposed to some Ghanaians (5) |
| F (France) ANTI (opposed to) – Akan people, from Ghana | ||
Thanks PeeDee.
33a HORE is “indicating an end of hygiene”, ‘H’ or ‘E’.
Yes, fairly straightforward , except I couldn’t think of a clue for 1ac to submit. HORE is a classic Azed ‘self referential’ typ of clue, that I always struggle to spot.
Nice puzzle.
PeeDee
Thanks for covering this. I did manage to solve it while I was on holiday, but would have struggled to post a blog. HORE mystified me as well!