AZED 2,155

As always.  It speaks for itself.

I know it isn’t Sunday yet, but there is only just over an hour to go, so there shouldn’t be a problem. There won’t be any mail collection now.

(Definitions in bold, sometimes separated by /. Sometimes Azed himself puts words in italics, as he has here with ‘Der Lindenbaum’ and ‘capo di tutti’, so I’ll embolden the definitions and there can be no confusion)

Across

1 Classics, to him, may be represented by such philosophical method (13)
SCHOLASTICISM
(Classics to him)*

10 Master what’s extracted from well, getting wet no longer (4)
MOIL
m [= master] oil

11 Conclude subject? Not able (4)
AMEN
amenable [= subject — adj] minus able — as a transitive verb to amen is to conclude

13 Musician revises aims with these crotchets? (4)
UNCI
A comp. anag., where [musician] … [aims unci]

14 Bankrupt making mischief about surplus (10)
IMPOVERISH
impish about over

15 Accumulate/fund (4)
POOL
2 defs

16 Slalom’s beginning at a higher place, bit of work for ski event (6, 2 words)
SUPER G
s{lalom} up erg

17 Regular intake to merge with Eton’s second (4)
DIET
die [= merge — yes, really] {E}t{on}

18 Poetry has to be still around in Der Lindenbaum (8, 2 words)
LIME TREE
li(metre)e

19 Old head still taking in all sections (5)
YEAST
(a[ll] s[ections]) in yet

20 Policeman, for some a bit of a sugar daddy (5)
GARDA
Hidden in suGAR DAddy

23 Draw bowl deployed with side (8)
DISBOWEL
(bowl side)*

25 Unanswerable question, something that floors you if old (4)
KOAN
KO [= knockout] an [old version of if]

26 King’s seal denoting club (6)
ROTARY
R otary — Rotary Club

28 The old tarry tucking into full English (4)
LENG
Hidden in fulL ENGlish

29 Rickety wicket, say, needing hammer all round (10, 2 words)
MALLEE GATE
malle(eg)ate

30 Trouble and strife directly following from behind (4)
FEUD
(due f)rev.

31 Top French army officer Hal dispatched in war (4)
MARS
God of war — mars{hal}

32 Cranial eminences visible in brainiacs? (4)
INIA
Hidden in braINIAcs

33 Lovely spot, US island – live protected, once battered by storms (13)
TEMPEST-BEATEN
Tempe [= lovely spot] St(be)aten

Down

1 Second oldster in Gretna Green landmark? (6)
SMIDDY
s middy — both middy and oldster = midshipman — a smiddy is a Scots (hence, I suppose, Gretna Green) form of smithy, but ‘landmark’ seems a bit odd and I wonder what I’m missing

2 Artery cuts turn out red (6)
COMMIE
com(M1 [the motorway])e

3 Plant fruit and veg on top of stone – odd (11)
HIPPEASTRUM
hip pea st rum

4 Office lot going wild in old dance (6)
LAVOLT
lav [= office] (lot)*

5 Disappointed parishioner may find this accommodation with shared facilities (11, 2 words)
SERVICE FLAT
2 defs — a parishioner, someone who attends a church service, may be disappointed if this service is flat

6 Profits /turn out /fine, as of old (5)
ISSUE
3 defs — Azed is very fond of ‘as of old’ as an indication of archaicness or obsoleteness

7 Questioner on the spot disheartened the conceited, first off (11)
INTERROGANT
in [= on the spot] t{h}e {a}rrogant

8 Such Capone always retained / – ‘capo di tutti …’ (4)
SCAR
2 defs — one of the meanings of scar is a reef or headland — Al Capone was known as Scarface — also, as Pelham Barton points out, it’s the initial letters of the four words; ‘capo di tutti’ means ‘head(s?) of them all’ — I did in fact realise this when I did the crossword but there was so long between that and doing the blog that I forgot. Really!

9 The writer penning dig nastily – one may generate gall (5)
MIDGE
(dig)* in me

12 Fair but shunned by company, dejected within, getting rather drunk? (7)
MELLOWY
{co}mel(low)y

16 ‘Losing weight’: lines in lots of printing matter read up (7)
SMALLER
ll in (reams)rev.

20 Early flight large birds must get about right (6)
GREESE
G(r)eese

21 Fruitcake compounded fat blocking sink (6)
DAFTIE
(fat)* in die

22 Name held by a dignitary pertaining to chain (6)
ANDEAN
n in a dean — referring to the Andes

23 Herd on the move split after opening of defile (5)
DRIFT
d{efile} rift

24 Sermonize: ‘Some petar (own) will be hoisted’ (5)
ORATE
Hidden rev. in pETAR (Own)

27 Kind of arch, I’ll be put up over either side of entrance (4)
OGEE
(go)rev. e e [the two sides of ‘entrance’ are e and e] I think — the nautical meaning of put  — and again as Pelham Barton points out and again as I noticed at the time but later missed, a far better parsing is (ego)rev. e, where either side of entrance is e