AZED 2,189

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The particular feature of this puzzle presented a problem to your blogger.

completed grid

I’ve not blogged a “Wrong Number” puzzle before, where the answers do not belong to the clues at the numbers where they stand.  I have therefore shown the correct answer at the place where it is in the grid, with an explanation to the wordplay for the clue at that number and a cross-reference to the clue where that answer is to be found in the grid.  Apologies for any errors in cross-referencing.  I have also included the completed grid for reference.  You have to admire Azed’s skill in incorporating a one word definition (shown in bold) of each answer in the clue for a completely different word; they are integral to the clues, not in any way extraneous.  This week again there aren’t many Scottish words (Jock makes one appearance) but plenty of French ones: ETRENNES, GARNITURE, GIGUE and VOISINAGE.

I should also explain that I am blogging Azed for a second week in succession because the scheduled blogger is on holiday.  I myself will be on holiday (in Orkney) when this puzzle appears so may be unable to respond promptly (or at all) to any comments.

 

Across
1 MUSO Strut: what cat does, tail to the fore (4)
31ac: PURS, (an old spelling) with the last letter first.
4 SORROWED Wept if denied odds on races once these are given at start of year (8)
30 ac: (w)E(p)T, RENNES.  A French term for New Year’s gifts.
10 ANTI Put name against article immediately (4)
33 ac: THE N.
11 TROUVERE Device for e.g. copying this poet? I had got paper sorted (8)
Compound anagram; take the letters of “POET” from “I HAD GOT PAPER” to produce DIAGRAPH.
12 GARNITURE Rake dressing rotund dissolute for circuitous journey (9)
5 dn: *ROTUND, RIP.
13 ERIACH Disclaim wandering in France without fine temperature (6)
23 ac: *(f)RANCE, T(emperature).
15 ORDER One under command of US NCO, not one fit for dance (5)
25 dn: G I, (a)GUE.
16 SKEDADDLE Run in chino and get prepared for bluster (9)
14 dn: R in *(CHINO GET).
18 TROPIC Ducks forming limit for little bird dropping in fatigue (6)
6 dn: VERD(in) in 00.
23 RECANT Soak tucking into drink has to withdraw, colouring (6)
28 ac: RET in NIP, all reversed.
24 VIEWPOINT Position love lives amid wine, mature vicinity (9)
29 ac: 0 IS in VIN, AGE.
26 INWIT Costly end of marriage once badly affecting one’s conscience? (5)
9 dn: DEAR, (marriag)E.
28 PTERIN Bit of pigment acceptable in such as Priam’s circle (6)
18 ac: P(igment) in TROIC.
29 VOISINAGE Scenic spot to contend with e.g. beer round centre of neighbourhood (9)
24 ac: VIE W(ith), O in PINT.
30 ETRENNES One like Blondel who presents reworked overture (8)
11 ac: *OVERTURE
31 SPUR Promise ends in vow to eager stud (4)
27 dn: last letters of “voW tO eageR stuD”.
32 RED LIGHT Stop replacing work with wild orgies, bristling (8)
3 dn: ST(op) *ORGIES.  This is one of the answers where one meaning has one word, and the other two.
33 THEN Grass: water next day (4)
7 dn: WEE, D(ay).
Down
1 MAGENTA It was very hard getting powdered colour into tin (7)
21 dn: TONER in SN.
2 UNARY Single twin re-examined self-knowledge? (5)
26 ac: *(1 TWIN).
3 STRIGOSE Lamented one who famously streaked in age-old grassy patch (8)
4 ac: ROWE in SORD.  Unfortunately, the famous streaker was Erica (or Erika) Roe, not Rowe.
4 STICK IT Capital? No capital – see me stuck in this old fur! (7)
8 dn: ME in (B)ERLIN.  This is the other answer having two forms.
5 ROUNDTRIP Regina distressed about return of routine apparel (9)
12 ac: RUT(rev) in *REGINA.
6 OVERDO Ring women in veils one’s seen to harass (6)
22 dn: W in *VEILS.
7 WEED Missouri’s garment for American player (4)
1 ac: US in MO (IVR for Missouri).
8 ERMELIN Mum’s making coat for sales rep, purplish (7)
1 dn: AGENT in MA.
9 DEARE Regulate centre of sore showing inflammation reversed (5)
15 ac: (s)OR(e) RED(rev).
14 HECTORING Flight burden that restricts annoying pest (9)
16 ac: KED in SADDLE.
17 DIAGRAPH Sleazy illumination for dark room enlarger? (8)
32 ac: double definition, using both variants (hyphenated and two words).
19 RUINATE Stinted? Spoiled rather – if it’s filling you want, come to me (7)
*STINTED.
20 DENTIST Needing doctor? About time it’s inserted for Jock 7)
4 dn: T in SICK, IT.
21 STONERN After end of supper auntie, rocky, collapsed (old) (7)
19 dn: (suppe)R, *AUNTIE.
22 SWIVEL Hearts tend to turn about one getting serious penalty (6)
13 ac: I in H CARE (rev).
24 VIVER Posh form of yarn involving one component (5)
2 dn: U *YARN.
25 GIGUE With endless verve I’ll jig in pond (5)
24 dn: *VERV(e) I.
27 WORD Opposed to a hint, convoluted, husband dropped (4)
*(A (h)INT).

*anagram

5 comments on “AZED 2,189”

  1. Yes, the mis-spelling of Ms Roe’s surname threw me too. A rare lapse from AZED. Misdirected myself by not spelling TROUVERE properly, which kind of held me up for a while

  2. The phrase ‘tour de force’ gets used an awful lot hereabouts. I think I might point the next user at an Azed Wrong Number puzzle to see if it stops them. Simply getting a one word definition for every answer is pretty dashed clever.

    Thanks bridgesong, I expect you need the holiday after blogging that.

  3. I believe that 4 down should be the Scots word STICKIT, pp of stick(2) (‘to insert’). Perhaps a slip between solving and writing up the blog, Bridgesong?

  5. Bob @3: I think 4 down can be either STICKIT (with the meaning you suggest) or STICK IT, although I concede it’s hard to explain it as two words, but I couldn’t find any other candidate for the second word that could be treated in this way.

    Thanks to Orkney Library service for the wi-fi!

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