Azed 2262 – oops!

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By the “breakfast test” this counted as quite easy on the Azed spectrum, even though in retrospect it seems to have quite a high proportion of unfamiliar words. Unusually, there are only 34 clues (17 each across and down) rather than the usual 36. Azed has slipped up with 33 across, which clashes with 21d, but apart from that it’s the usual high-quality stuff.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Across
1. PAPAPRELATIST Supporter of popish church leaders? Pal at it papers lambasted (13)
(PAL AT IT PAPERS)* – “a supporter of popish prelates”, says Chambers, which doesn’t leave me much the wiser – apparently it’s a nonce-word used by Sir Walter Scott
10. ANABIOSIS A north American bee, I love honey – it’s ability to revivify (9)
A + NA + B + I + O + SIS (honey, as in a girlfriend)
12. TOTE Child on nurse’s back, a weight to carry (4)
TOT + [nurs]E
14. SCRAWLER One with a poor hand, south leads what’s easily overtaken (8)
S + CRAWLER
15. CRESTA What’s shot down in sport and may be found in chic restaurants (6)
Hidden in chiC RESTAurants – a reference to the Cresta Run
16. ULNARE One pulled back Rex tucking into rubber bone (6)
AN< + R in ULE (a rubber tree, and its produce)
17. HARDOKE Puzzling word in Shakespeare, troublesome, certainly English (7)
HARD + OK + E – an unexplained word found in the folio of King Lear
19. HYPE With yen for love, anticipation leads to deception (4)
HOPE (anticipation) with O replaced by Y
20. STEARIN Bottled retsina, acidic stuff (7)
RETSINA*
23. OOSY Bairn’s nappy particular child lost (4)
CHOOSY less CH – adjectival form of Scots oose, meaning “fluff, nap”, so the nappy is not what Americans call a diaper, though I remember dealing with some oozy ones of those..
25. TARTANA Check a small covered wagon (7)
TARTAN + A
27. CRAVAT Ascot rules active against appearing in e.g. civet (6)
R + A + V in CAT
29. DAUNTS Daughter with relations is terrifying (6)
D + AUNTS
30. KIMONOED Monk: ‘I dressed for God going round in exotic garb‘ (8)
(I MONK)* + DEO< (the ablative form of deus, hence “for God”)
31. GIST Substance got from sulphur fool’s ingested (4)
S in GIT
32. SINHALESE Draws breath among south-east Asian people (9)
INHALES in SE
33. TITTLE-TATTLER Gossip provoking giggle about the state of France, bootless at heart (13)
L’ETAT + [boo]TL[ess] in TITTER. Houston, we have a problem[1]: the first L of this clashes with the final E of 21d, TRANSE. I can only guess that Azed accidentally entered either TITTEL- or TITTER- as the first part of this word in his grid, and it escaped subsequent checking. (Incidentally, tittle-tattler was used in a clue in Azed 2091.)
Down
1. PATCH POCKET Add-on for seamstress – PC, tho’ damaged in parcel (11, 2 words)
(PC THO)* in PACKET
2. PATERA Round dish, a long time with bit of butter on (6)
PAT + ERA
3. PINTO Leg of horse (5)
PIN (leg) + TO (of – given as a meaning of “to” in Chambers, though I can’t think offhand of an example to show this)
4. ROSAKER Old red mineral like this turns up with garden worker around (7)
SO< in RAKE – it's “an obsolete variant of realgar [a red mineral]”
5. ESCHEATMENT Reversion of property in conversion of the manse, etc (11)
(THE MANSE ETC)*
6. A SALTI Sailor splits centre of sail spasmodically (6, 2 words)
SALT in [s]AI[l] – an Italian expression, literally meaning “in jumps”
7. TOWN Business centre – exchange those on the fringes and you’d end with nothing (4)
If you exchange the T and N you get NOWT
8. INLAY Decorative work: little daughter thus becomes grown woman (5)
..and if you put D[aughter] IN LAY you get LADY
9. THREE-MASTER Sailing ship: one’s trained there with instructor (11)
THERE* + MASTER
11. PERPENTS Walls person briefly gets shut up inside (8)
PENT in PERS
13. ORATORIO Large-scale work: artist put on mouldings in circles (8)
RA + TORI (plural of torus, a moulding) in O O
18. SRADDHA Offering to the departed, unusually rash sum included (7)
ADD in RASH*
21. TRANSE Went racing among wild set? This’ll take Scots straight through (6)
RAN in SET* – Scots word for a “through passage”, with its last letter clashing with 33a
22. DANIEL Wise judge misled by denial (6)
DENIAL* – as in “A Daniel come to judgment, yea, a Daniel!—/O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!” from Act 4 Scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice”, referring to the apocryphal Book of Susanna (included as a chapter of the canonical Book of Daniel by some)
24. SAMIT Xmastime includes a stretch that involves these neighbours of Santa? (5)
Anagram of MASTI or ASTIM from inside “Xmastime” (so could the clue read “.. includes two stretches..”?) – the word means “Lapps”, and is listed in C under its singular form Saam, which is why the rubric says it “takes some finding”, though not if you happen to have the Chambers app on your iPhone..
26. RABAT Where in N. Africa you’ve to change and link with another plane (5)
Although I knew RABAT as the capital of Morocco, I was completely baffled by the rest of the clue until I looked the word up in Chambers and found it’s a geometrical term meaning “to rotate into coincidence with another plane”
28. VOLT Fencing dodge? There’s a short book on it (4)
VOL + ‘T – a move in fencing, also spelt volte

[1] Yes, I know that’s a misquotation

4 comments on “Azed 2262 – oops!”

  1. Thank you Andrew. Oops indeed, I can understand, sort of, Azed pencilling 33a in incorrectly, I can’t see how the editorial staff missed it. Oh well.

  2. ‘Oose’, which for me has a soft ‘s’ (so rhymes with ‘loose’), is the fluffy balls that develop on a new carpet the first few times you walk on it. I don’t know if this is a particularly Scottish word, but if it is, what do the rest of the English-speaking world call that stuff?

    The clash between ‘transe’ and ‘tittle’ confused me – I just assumed ‘transl’ must be a variant of transe that I couldn’t find. Also failed to find ‘Samit’ or to parse ‘Rabat’.

    So thanks for the enlightenment.

  4. Thanks, sidey. ‘Saam’ isn’t in my (admittedly 30-year-old) copy. Perhaps it’s time I bought a new one…

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