Azed 2156

I found this somewhat harder than usual fare.  Maybe I was distracted but it took more than a couple of hours to crack.

Across

1 APPL(ERING)IE[d] – yes, a type of wormwood I suppose.  (re gin)* in applie[d]

11 GLA*,UX – where ux=abbrev(uxor=Roman wife).  Seashore plant.

12 ONE,RIC[hes] – dreamy.

13 RAN,C,HO – rude hut

14 NID,E – rev(e,din=racket).  Pheasant nest thus “game” was developed there (past tense since archaic).

15 S(TERNS)ON – so I guess native=son.

16 U,MA,MI[so] – the fifth taste right? (along with sweet, sour, bitter, salty)

17 TE(AD)E – torch (archaic).  And I guess a TEE is umbrella shaped (but I would have thought concave rather than convex).

19 N(A,MASK)AR – rev(ran=was current).  Less familiar form of namaste.  Peace out.

23 BULLBEEF – OK – I know I can decode this.. hang on… well, the definition is clear (ox fattened for slaughter).  Wordplay… BUL(L)B,EEF maybe? rev(blub=cry).  Ah… turns out that fee=(obsolete) cattle, so rev(fee=cattle, L=50 in blub=cry)

25 BEMA,D – d=abbrev(deserted).  BEMA=podium.

27 KO,KRA – a wood used for instruments (so “another fine wood”).  rev(ark=gopher product, where gopher is a fine wood presumably suitable for arks). Thanks to Rich we now have chapter and verse to corroborate.

29 U(PANCHO)R – ref. Pancho Villa.  And [Ast]UR[ias].  I had unanchor for a long time until I had convinced myself there wasn’t a Nancho Villa (Mexican, football team or otherwise).

31 RAG,E[xpand] – rag=sail.

32 SA(ILO*)R – where sar=sargus (a fish).  I prematurely entered TA(ILO)R since tar=salt and tailor is a fish which would have worked assuming the clue had read: “Fish salt full of oil at sea”.  The moral: never doubt Azed.

33 SCUT,ATE – plated.  And scut=rabbit.

34 SNORE[h] – rev(‘erons=as ‘arry’d have pronounced herons).

35 HYSTEROGENY – hysteria – (Syng[e] here, yet)*

Down

2 PLAYMARE – (early map)* – Scots hobby-horse.

3 PA,NG,A – axe

4 [p]LU[m],CUM,A – S. American fruit tree.

5 ROOTY – two meanings (rank and bread – latter military slang)

6 IN,DEXA,L – rev(axed=fired)

7 NEAR – hidden – left side of the road (only in England?)

8 G(INN)EL – INN in GEL=set.  Scots alley.

9 IR(IS)ATE – make iridescent.  IS=abbrev(island).

10 SCENE A FAIRE – theatrical climax – (in a farce, see)*

11 G(ROUND,BURS)T – burs=excrescences.

18 DEE,RHO(R)N[e] – a freshwater mussel (only one!). First river is the Dee and the second, the Rhone.

20 MAMA,GUY – Jamaican tease.

21 K(USHIT)E[nya] – remove any* from Kenya and insert an anagram of (thus I) to get an E. African.

22 MA(N)ETS – N in rev(steam=old-fashioned).  Ref. not a bad painter.

24 BO,RING – bo=guy.

26 POSER – two meanings.

28 KYL(O)E – kyle=strait=gut up in the north.  And kyloe is a “small long-haired Highland cattle”

30 CHAT – a complicated clue.  It’s a bird.  It’s also French (thus “dans le jardin”) for cat.  And it’s a small potato and a Jersey is a type thereof.