AZED 2264

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This time on the easier end of the Azed spectrum (did I just say that Azed is on the spectrum??).  Didn’t find myself drowning in Chambers as much as dabbling.  A question for readers: when should an archaic usage be indicated and when is it acceptable not to do so? Azed seems to be ambivalent.

completed grid
Across
1 SAKAI
Forest dwellers like returning with food (5)

SA,KAI – rev(as=like) and kai is food in NZ.  Sakai themselves live in Malaysian forests.
5 ARCLAMP
It casts a glow right inside a heap (7)

A(R)CLAMP – clamp is a heap
11 UP IN THE AIR
Universal pub tipple – try imbibing one – undecided? (10, 4 words)

U,PINT,HEA(I)R
12 BODGER
Pedlar, clumsy one, person with tent of skins (6)

BOD=person, GER=(Asian) tent.  And a BODGER is both a pedlar and clumsy one at that.
14 GLAIRY
Viscous liquid container ass dropped, aerated? (6)

GL[ass],AIRY – archaic (unindicated) viscous.
15 MILEAGE
Motorway group, not united in revealing distance travelled (7)

M1 = proverbial UK highway, LEA[u]GE
16 DAINT
It was fragile and it’s broken (5)

(and it)* – I like this clue! Spenserian “fragile” thus “it was”.
17 IN RE
Knight consumed by passion, touching (4, 2 words)

I(N)RE – Knight can be N (chess) or Kt.
18 ANDANTINO
Against embarking on ‘Donna’ (‘mobile’) at a measured pace? (9)

(anti, ‘Donna’)* – ‘mobile’ is our anagrind — ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_donna_%C3%A8_mobile which cropped up in a recent Listener. Correction thanks to Pelham. Wordplay should be: anti in Donna* so AND(ANTI)NO* where “embarking on” is the containment indicator.
22 LAUDATIVE
Foreign racing driver, fantastically ‘vite’? Here’s panegyric (9)

LAUDA=ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Lauda the Austrian driver who’s had a pretty bad accident, followed by vite*.
24 SELL
Lost seat? A disappointment (4)

Two meaning.  SELL is a disappointment and also archiac seat (thus “lost” to us linguistically).
26 HARAM
Helping of lunch, a Ramadan tabu (5)

Hidden &lit (in “lunch, a Ramadan”) since lunch is disallowed during the month of Ramadan.
27 CROQUIS
Rough sketch of queen in emergency is scrapped (7)

CR(O’,QU)IS[is]
29 ROTTEN
Reverse of clean: in other words, putrid (6)
Struggled decoding this – must be rev(nett=clean,or=in other words)
30 WAITES
Keeps watch once island is surrounded by returning ooze (6)

W(AIT)ES – ait=island in rev(sew=ooze) where WAITES is what an archaic watchman did.
31 HERACLEIAN
Recalling demigod, the lady’s one, pure, nursing heart of faith (10)

HER,A,CLE([fa]I[th]AN – ref our friend the demigod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles aka Hercules.
32 PTERYLA
Skin bearing feathers partly concealed round goose’s rump (7)

PT(E)RLYA – “skin bearing contour feathers”. [goos]E in partly*
33 OSSIE
Digger who becomes more overbearing with British around (5)

[b]OSSIE[r] – Another spelling of Aussie=digger (slang).
Down
1 SUBEDAR
Indian captain, alight, hoisted a run (7)
SUBED,A,R – rev(debus=alight). Easy to fall into trap of subadar which is valid alternate spelling and fits grid.
2 KIDVID
Something to entertain the children? I had five in small tub (6)

K(I’D,V)ID – where kid=small tub.
3 ANGINAL
Very uptight about strong drink – it’s related to chest pain (7)

AN(GIN)AL
4 ITEM
Article with end cut Times garbled (4)

(item[s])*
6 REGICIDES
E.g. CRI’s die horribly (or did, mostly) (9)

I think this is supposed to be an anag &lit (CRI’s die, di[d])* — is CRI meant to be King Charles I who suffered such a demise? Again correction thanks to Pelham.  Wordplay is (e.g. CRI’s die)* and definition refers to both the killings and killers of monarchs, including (I think!) K. Charles I. 
7 CALLA
Lily having term absent (5)

CALL=term,A=absent — nice clue!
8 ARIANE
‘Very holy’ girl libertarian easily inveigles (6)

Hidden in “libertarian easily” — I suspect that if I look in the Chambers “some first names” appendix, Ariane’s meaning will be be revealed.
9 MARGRAVATE
Position of European noble giving endless party in seaside resort (10)

MARG(RAV[e])ATE – “the jurisdiction or position of a margrave” where a margrave is a European noble indeed (of the Germanic persuasion). Margate is on the S. coast of England.
10 PAYEE
Beneficiary, certainly, within price-earnings ratio (5)

P(AYE)E
13 ORANGEROOT
Old park officer also pulled up medicinal plant (10)

O,RANGER,OOT – rev(too=also) — I take it on faith that said plant has medicinal properties.
15 MATUTINAL
Dorothy, perhaps, joins mum and Albert early in the day (9)

MA,TUTIN,AL – I hadn’t heard of Dorothy Tutin — shame on me I suppose.
19 OTARIES
Marine mammals thrashing about in sea riot (7)

(sea riot)* – seals.
20 DEMESNE
Landed estate not once under ancient townships (7)

DEMES=townships,NE=archaic “not”.
21 CLOTHE
Chump, male, modelling dress (6)

CLOT,HE
23 IRITIS
It’s painful for viewers – and it’s welcomed by Murdoch possibly (6)

IR(IT)IS – ref. Iris Murdoch of course.
24 SCRAP
Cutting seconds and stuff (5)

S,CRAP – crap is also cram.
25 QUERY
Doubt expressed in tremulous voice, one very lost inside (5)

QU[i,v]ERY or QU[a,v]ERY – both seem to work.
28 LALO
Composer: left fragments of Albumblätte and light opera (4)

L,A,L,O – first letters. Ref. Edouard Lalo
*anagram

6 comments on “AZED 2264”

  1. Thanks Azed and ilancaron

    14ac: I think this needs to be read as ANTI (against) contained within (embarking on) anagram (mobile) of DONNA to avoid the partially indirect anagram suggested by the way you have written it.

    6dn: Here I am certain that the anagram fodder is EG CRIS DIE, and I think the idea is that many people who committed regicide themselves then died horribly.

  3. I am told that the killers of Charles the First (Carolus Rex 1) were known collectively as “The Regicides”. Most of them were rounded up, tried, and then hung drawn and quartered i.e. they died horribly. A quite brilliant clue, though ultra-purists might have liked a final question mark.

  5. Thanks Azed and ilancaron.

    I don’t usually do these- but occasionally I do, just to prove I still can (often proving just the opposite!). I agree this was quite easy with not too many words I’d never heard of.

    HANGED (hung) DRAWN and QUARTERED: Odd that we’ve come to use this expression with the words in this order since the actual grisly punishment involved being first of all DRAWN (i.e. behind a horse, sometimes on a hurdle) to the place of execution, and then HANGED (usually not until dead), then disemboweled, then cut into or pulled into quarters.

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