Nick: Typical Azed this week,
…with all the usual Azed devices. Anyone under 30 (I guess) would have struggled with 15ac, but once the checked letters are in only one word fits, so can be solved ‘cold’.
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| 3. | Rude gig (dancing) held in local? Tweeter required (10) | ||
| BUGERIGAR | (RUDE GIG*) in BAR | ||
| 11. | Important meeting in part of SA, timeless, for religious rite there? (7) | ||
| NAGMAAL | AGM in NA(t)AL semi-&lit? | ||
| 12. | What’ll liquidize tasty root veg, we hear? (5) | ||
| MOULI ® | homophone: MOOLI | ||
| 13. | Bum cook abandoning care of cooking seaweed for stock (5) | ||
| KOMBU | (BUM (co)OK)* | ||
| 15. | Brian maybe making special catch (5) | ||
| SNAIL | S+NAIL the definition may have caused problems for a few people. Brian was the name of the snail in the TV show ‘the magic roundabout’; for some reason, this show gave me the willies when it first came out (it used to follow the good old ‘Blue Peter’), and I have never watched it since {shiver} |
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| 16. | Liquid waste, like what drunk comes out with, might one suppose? (6) | ||
| SLURRY | sort of dd the ‘suppose’ here is a get out as Chambers doesn’t explicitly state ‘slurry’ of speech |
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| 17. | Sudden pain left-winger gets inside (6) | ||
| TWINGE | hidden: lefT-WINGEr | ||
| 18. | I may be found burrowing into elm prow at sea? (8) | ||
| PILEWORM | I in (ELM PROW*) &lit | ||
| 19. | ‘Aussie scrounger‘? Name fellow’s written in bog (8) | ||
| QUANDONG | (N+DON) in QUAG | ||
| 22. | Fit to describe, the Spanish dance? The reverse (8) | ||
| TELLABLE | EL+BALLET< | ||
| 29. | A poilu, strangely not French? One could give you a sharp kick (8) | ||
| POULAINE | (A+POILU*)+NE | ||
| 30. | Big fish? It’s nary a fool that’ll haul it back (6) | ||
| TARPON | (NO PRAT)< | ||
| 31. | Monkey describing mater in the car? (6) | ||
| MALMAG | ALMA in MG | ||
| 32. | Opened fair university having replaced college area (5) | ||
| UNDID | U for CA in CANDID[fair] | ||
| 33. | Waves enveloping port partitions (5) | ||
| SEPTA | SEA around PT | ||
| 34. | WI extruded smoothly continuous papier-mâché (5) | ||
| FLONG | FLO(wi)NG | ||
| 35. | Who’s displaying ––– list, bottled? Cellarist is possibly (7) | ||
| SERCIAL | comp. anag. CELLARIST+IS minus LIST = (CELARIS)* &lit | ||
| 36. | Charge when trapping home rodent, pierced (10) | ||
| FENESTRATE | FEE around (NEST+RAT) | ||
| …………………………. Down |
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| 1. | Member of old band maybe, skin distended over belly (7) | ||
| INKSPOT | (SKIN*)+POT[belly]] – ref. the group ‘the inkspots’ | ||
| 2. | Fine clay from trench under soaring tree (7) | ||
| KAOLINE | LINE after (OAK<) | ||
| 4. | Mediterranean tree yielding nuts and alpine lumber when chopped (12, 2 words) | ||
| UMBRELLA PINE | (ALPINE LUMBER)* | ||
| 5. | Flat-bottomed boat, swish? Not me! (6) | ||
| GAYYOU | pun on GAY YOU! | ||
| 6. | Bits of some worms gobbled by lonely tramps (6) | ||
| ELYTRA | hidden: lonELY TRAmps | ||
| 7. | Homeric language I, Diocletian, translated, 100 lines (12, 2 words) | ||
| IONIC DIALECT | C in[lines] (I, DIOCLETIAN*) | ||
| 8. | Noisy bird perched on green rain tree (6) | ||
| GUANGO | GUAN+GO | ||
| 9. | Marshal, one restricting party with free drinks (5) | ||
| ALIGN | AN around LIG | ||
| 10. | Got idler moving (5) | ||
| RILED | (IDLER)* | ||
| 14. | Backless shoe initially made with crude rubber (4) | ||
| MULE | M(ade)+ULE | ||
| 20. | Ice-girt rock, one piercing a tank that’s burst (7) | ||
| NUNATAK | UNA in (TANK*) | ||
| 21. | Greek east wind? Something like that (7) | ||
| GREGALE | GR+E+GALE indirect definition |
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| 23. | Left cutting board to put on flavoursome cube? (6) | ||
| LARDON | |||
| 24. | Note in scribbled obit’s ‘I thought well of the world but saw room for improvement‘ (6) | ||
| BONIST | N in (OBIT’S*) | ||
| 25. | Old uncle’s flirtation – it’s pretty cumbersome (6) | ||
| LUMBER | three definitions – ‘uncle’ here refers to the name given to a pawnbroker | ||
| 26. | Wife with naughty child – she was nobbut a lass (4) | ||
| WIMP | W+IMP | ||
| 27. | Farce material (5) | ||
| STUFF | dd | ||
| 28. | Countryman’s nimble, the best up north and thereabouts (5) | ||
| WANLE | N in WALE – the word play here is abstruse | ||
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Thanks Nick. Brian was the only reason to watch The Magic Roundabout!
LARDON is LAR(board) for left + DON to put on.
sidey, thanks.
When I solved that clue, I did quickly think that (bo)ARD didn’t seem right… and even when typing this blog out I had another brief wonder.
But as I knew it had to lardon I didn’t even reconsider my parsing. Entry above corrected.
Thanks,
Nick
NUNATAK is UN in (A TANK)*