Azed 2211

1

Lanky type awkwardly hid lines I put out aboard smacks (13)

(Anagram of [awkwardly] HID LINES excluding [put out] I) contained in (aboard) SPANKS (smacks)

SP (INDLESH*) ANKS

SPINDLE-SHANKS (Chambers defines SPINDLE-SHANKS in the plural as long slim legs; but it says that the singular is the term for one with long slim legs.  Surely ‘lanky type’ would be the singular?)

10

Caligula crazily arresting officer (8)

Anagram of (crazily) CALIGULA

ALGUACIL*

ALGUACIL (in Spain, an officer who makes arrests)

13

Judgement day?  Humour receding (4)

MOOD (temporary state of the emotions or of attitude; humour) reversed (receding)

DOOM<

DOOM (final judgement; Judgement day)

14

Result of fatty US diet?  Put endless restriction on one and include exercise (7)

(LIMIT [restriction] excluding the final letter [endless] T + A [one]) containing (include) (PE [physical education; exercise])

LI (PE) MI A

LIPEMIA (American spelling of LIPAEMIA, an excess of fat in the blood)

15

Books filling gap in hamper (6)

BB (books) contained in (filling) HOLE (gap)

HO (BB) LE

HOBBLE (hamper the feet of an animal)

I really don’t know how the wordplay works here.  I have found the phrase SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS that is supposedly said by Brutus before he inflicts the fatal blow to kill [remove?] Julius Caesar, but I can’t see any logical way of excluding SIC and TYRANNIS.

I look forward to having the parsing of this clue explained to me.

SHIP [there have been several ships named HMS Enterprise] containing (taking on board) TARS (sailors)

S (TARS) HIP

STARSHIP (reference STARSHIP Enterprise, the space vessel featuring in the film and television series Star Trek)

If my parsing is right, which I doubt, it seems to me that Enterprise is doing double duty in this clue as part of the wordplay and as the definition.  Perhaps, the e.g. and the ? make this possible.

21

Ate Irish stew after favourite red wine (11, 2 words)

PET (favourite) + an anagram of (stew) ATE IRISH

PET ITE SIRAH*

PETITE SIRAH (a grape originally cultivated in SE France, now widely grown in the Americas; a red wine made from this grape)

23

Wannabe a lookalike has smuggled in (8)

(A + SPIT [exact replica; lookalike]) containing (has … in) RAN (smuggled)

A SPI (RAN) T

ASPIRANT (someone who desires eagerly; wannabe)

27

Dealer in dyes etc changes back to front (6)

ALTERS (changes) with the final letter [back] S moved to the first position [front]

SALTER

SALTER ( a dealer in gums, dyes, etc)

30

Gruff Scots, reverse of shameful it follows (6)

POOR (shameful) reversed (reverse of) + IT

ROOP< IT

ROOPIT (Scottish word for hoarse; gruff Scots)

31

College one enters elaborately robed in heavy fabric (7)

(C [college] + A [one]) contained in (enters) an anagram of (elaborately) ROBED

BRO (C A) DE*

BROCADE (a heavy silky fabric with a raised (or apparently raised) design on it)

32

Edible fern – nonsense?  No diddle (4)

TARADIDDLE (nonsense) excluding (no) DIDDLE

TARA (a variety of bracken found in New Zealand and Tasmania, with an edible rhizome; edible fern)

33

Backsliding, become drunk, no matter which round – a contradiction (8)

ANY (no matter which) containing (round) (GO LIT [become drunk] reversed [backsliding])

AN (TIL OG)< Y

ANTILOGY (contradiction|)

34

Sign of weather hotting up?  Enough greases’ll get slathered (13, 2 words)

Anagram of (it will get slathered) ENOUGH GREASES

GREENHOUSE GAS*

GREENHOUSE GAS (a gas [especially carbon dioxide, also ozone, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons] that contributes to the warming-up of the earth’s surface due to the trapping of solar radiation, which would otherwise be reflected back into space)

1

Letter in Hebrew: screen showing second misplaced (5)

SHADE (screen) moving the second letter H to a different place in the word [second misplaced]

SADHE

SADHE (eighteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet)

2

Spot in the highlands to view after parking (5)

P (parking) + LOOK (view)

PLOOK (Scottish [Highlands] word for a pimple or spot; spot in the highlands)

3

Something like an opossum, ‘dead’, then cheers up (6)

NUMB (dead[ened]) + (TA [thank you; cheers] reversed [up; down clue])

NUMB AT<

NUMBAT (a small Australian marsupial (Myrmecobius fasciatus) which feeds on termites, presumably similar to an opossum)

4

Each being resident in Ireland is governed – from here? (11, 2 words)

EA (each) contained in (being resident in) (an anagram of [governed] IN IRELAND)

DAIL EIR (EA) NN*

DÁIL EIREANN (the lower house of the legislature of the Republic of Ireland)

5

End up with little latitude in old age (4)

(DIE [end] reversed [up; down clue]) containing (with … in) L (abbreviation for [little] L [latitude])

EI (L) D<

EILD (old age)

6

Trance limits rising temper, the result of imbalance in blood (11)

HYPNOSIS (trance) contains (limits) (IRE [temper] reversed [rising; down clue])

HYP (ERI)< NOSIS

HYPERINOSIS (excess of fibre in the blood; [result of ]imbalance in the blood)

7

Speed written within ambit of tailless antelope and of immature insects (7)

(MPH [miles per hour; speed]) contained in (written within ambit of] (NYALA [antelope] excluding the final letter [tailless] A)

NY (MPH) AL

NYMPHAL (of immature insects)

8

Ancient quay, one circled by jackdaw on the Clyde? (4)

I (one) contained in (circled by) KAE (Scottish [Clyde] word for a jackdaw)

KA (I) E

KAIE (obsolete form of [old] KEY [quay])

9

To make connection in south, communication device while driving one abandoned (6)

S (South) + (CARPHONE [device enable communication whilst driving] excluding [abandoned] ONE)

SCARPH (to join with a SCARF-JOINT [a joint between pieces placed end to end, cut so as to fit with overlapping like a continuous piece])

11

Lines that help volunteers in ridge, steep on one side (6)

CUES (the last words of an actor’s speech serving as a signal to the next speaker to begin; any word or action that serves as a signal to begin a speech; lines that help) + TA (Territorial Army; volunteers)

CUESTA (a hill ridge having a steep scarp on one side and a gradual slope on the other)

12

What’ll strain bits regularly going in Thermos? (4)

TEMS (letters 1, 3, 5 and 7 [regularly] of THERMOS)

TEMS (strainer)

17

Lament red spilled round up-ended jug (7)

Anagram of (spilled) RED containing (round) (OLPE [Greek jug] reversed [up-ended; down clue])

D (EPLO<) RE*

DEPLORE (feel or express deep grief for; lament)

19

Protruding once, like egg dropped from inside fish (6)

AS (like) + (TROUT [fish] excluding [dropped from] O [egg shape])

ASTRUT (archaic [once] word for protruding)

20

Three out of four voices restricted by silence?  He should be too! (6)

(A [alto] + S [soprano] + B [bass], giving three of the four most common voices.  Only tenor is omitted) contained in (restricted by) GAG (silence)

G (A S B) AG  or GA (S B A) G

GASBAG (talkative person, one who perhaps should be silenced)

22

Grub, ‘eated in part (6)

‘OT (‘eated hot/heated) contained in (in) ROLE (part [in a play])

RO (OT) LE

ROTTLE (grub)

24

Yen the writer in Germany has to pen tons (4)

ICH (I [the writer] in German) containing (pen) T (tons)

I (T) CH

ITCH (longing; urge; yen)

25

Council of elders dance round king, active (5)

(JIG [dance] containing [around] R [Rex; king]) + A (active)

JI (R) G A

JIRGA (in Afghanistan, a council of tribal elders)

26

Corset restrains e.g. hussy’s middle, front of tum held in (5)

(SAY [e.g.] + S [middle letter of {middle} HUSSY]) containing (held in) T (first letter of [front of] TUM)

S (T) AY S

STAYS (corset)

28

Tree found in Sahara region (4)

ARAR (hidden word in [found in] SAHARA REGION)

ARAR (sandarac tree, most commonly found in the Moroccan Atlas mountains))

29

Thin fabric demonstrating A-line when taken up? (4)

(ONE [a] + L [line]) all reversed (taken-up; down clue)

(L ENO)<

LENO (a thin muslin-like fabric.)