AZED 2,173

As always, a pleasant wade through a whole lot of words that one has never heard of. If I explained them all this blog would take ages to read and write, so I shall assume that you have a copy of Chambers to hand and can look these words up.

Definitions in italics (Azed has departed from his habit of using italics at various  times incomprehensible to me, so there can be no confusion)

Across

2 Signal cost ‘varied’ in the spirit of openness (10)
GLASNOSTIC
(Signal cost)*

10 Schmaltz on jumper spelling ‘revered old teacher’ (6)
GOOROO
goo roo — goo = schmaltz, roo = kangaroo, an old spelling of guru

11 Cereal crop alongside river – it’s regularly grafted (6)
CORNEA
corn ea — corneal graft

13 What abstainers drink, reverting? It’s appallingly ugly (6)
GORGON
(no grog)rev. — abstainers drink no grog

14 Stop holding ‘amateur’ as meaning ‘lovably odd’ (6)
QUAINT
qu(a)int

15 Not the actor? That is what Marlowe doubled as possibly (4)
SPIE
{the}sp i.e. — an old spelling of spy, which was what Marlowe doubled as possibly

16 Turned up poser solved, the desired goal (7)
PURPOSE
(up)rev. (poser)*

20 Solvent? I admitted it may introduce an alternative (6)
EITHER
e(I)ther

21 Light bathes north in upward slopes (6)
RINSES
ri(n)ses — bathes a noun

22 Swimming in Mediterranean at Antibes (6)
NATANT
Hidden in MediterraneaN AT ANTibes

24 Snare with associate (all but red) made to backtrack (6)
ENTRAP
(partne{red})rev. — partnered = with associate

28 Old melody to fade with a dance coming in (7)
DIAPASE
di(a pas)e — a diapase is a Spenserian version of diapason, but is this a melody? Chambers says that amongst other things melody is music, so in a broad sense yes perhaps a diapase is a melody, but I should have thought that a diapase was more of a chordal blast

30 Depression, often extended, a feature of singleness (4)
GLEN
hidden in sinGLENess

31 I unfolded map with both hands to hold a confab (6)
IMPARL
I (map)* r l — as in right and left hands

32 Look at these delicate fibres – do you think I should? (6)
SHALLI
I’m not sure what ‘Look at’ is doing except as a sort of initial link — shalli are challises — and the last part = shall I?

33 E.g. angora bonnet, free? (6)
CAPRID
cap rid — angora goat

34 Fine wood from Peru got in auction (6)
SAPELE
sa(Pe)le

35 Mozart’s first entr’acte composed containing English: a point of intersection (10)
METACENTRE
M{ozart} (entr’acte)* round e

Down

1 Binges with ged etc cooked in tasty snack (12, 2 words)
EGGS BENEDICT
(Binges ged etc)* — a ged is a dialect word for a pike or luce, so I suppose the surface is about fishing

2 Energy starting work with bit of yolk, glutinous (5)
GOOPY
go op y{olk}

3 Pretty bird, one yet to pass test with love and loose living (6)
LORIOT
L 0 riot

4 Aussie wimp, and accordingly not particularly good (4)
SOOK
so OK

5 Parton active in New York, unattached politically (8)
NON-PARTY
(Parton)* in NY

6 Finding origin of crab-apple? It includes Cuba (8)
SOURCING
sour(C)ing — a souring is a crab-apple — the word ‘origin’ is part of the definition rather than an indicator of the first letter of crab-apple

7 Type of quilting made of horsecloth until obsolete (8)
TRAPUNTO
trap unto — trap = horsecloth, unto = until (obs)

8 Lackey has head clipped causing lump thereon (5)
INION
{m}inion

9 Gundog that’s reliant with paws galloping round heart of fen? (12, 2 words)
WATER SPANIEL
(reliant paws)* round {f}e{n}

12 To succeed it must be removed from a bathroom (5)
ENSUE
en su{it}e

17 Amateur page in carriage, what feudal lord was entitled to (8)
CHAMPART
c(ham p)art

18 Parasitic plant strangely radiant about end of tree (8)
DENTARIA
(radiant)* round {tre}e

19 Gallery helping the besieged — network’s replacing one in foundation (8)
BRETESSE
base with rete’s replacing a (thanks Pelham Barton @1)

23 A good mimic uplifted the feminine in a man (5)
ANIMA
(a mina)rev.

25 Canary, one singing, about to fly off (5)
ROLLER
{ca}roller — small typo in the version on the website, certainly (don’t know about the paper): this is given as (5)

26 Chump losing last sheet of sums? (5)
NAPPE
nappe{r} — one sense of both napper and chump is head

27 E.g. palfrey’s saddle, partly tasselled (5)
SELLE
hidden in tasSELLEd

29 Dirk (Persian) pulling jar in eastern inn (4)
KHAN
Khan{jar}

*anagram