Azed 2289

1

Label displayed by driver: ‘Heart goes after big drinks’ (12, 2 words)

BUMPERS (cups or glasses filled to the brim for drinking a toast; big drinks) + TICKER (slang for the heart)

BUMPER STICKER (small label bearing a slogan or advertisement affixed to the BUMPER of a motor vehicle)

10

Old cold compartment by the sound of it (5)

RHEUM (sounds like [by the sound of it] ROOM [compartment])

RHEUM (obsolete [old] word for a cold in the head)

12

Dancing, I trip with feet not following poet’s foot (8)

Anagram of (dancing) I TRIP and FEET excluding (not) F (following)

EPITRITE*

EPITRITE (in the study of versification, a foot made up of three long syllables and one short; poet’s foot)

14

Moon, hallucinatory in part (6)

LUCINA (hidden word in [in part] HALLUCINATION)

LUCINA (the Roman goddess of childbirth, Juno; also Diana; hence, the moon)

15

Former limb, e.g. missing leg snake has swallowed back (6)

(ELAPS [American genus of snakes, also called Micrurus, the coral snake] containing [has swallowed] LEG excluding [missing] E.G.) all reversed (back)

(SPAL (L) E)<

SPALLE (Spenserean [former] version of SPAULD [a limb])

16

Child in tangle making dough (5)

CH (child) contained in (in) ORE (coarse seaweed; tangle)

O (CH) RE

OCHRE (money, especially gold; DOUGH is a slang term for money

17

Outstanding US sporting achievement that includes fellow going back east (9)

THAT containing (includes) (PEER [fellow] reversed [going back] + E [east])

TH (REEP< E) AT

THREEPEAT (American  [US] term for the achievement of a feat, especially the winning of a sporting trophy, on three consecutive occasions; outstanding sporting achievement)

20

They help to get wheels moving, and pound meal (5)

L (pound sterling) + EATS (informal term for meal)

LEATS (trenches for bringing water to a millwheel; they help to get the wheels moving)

22

Product of banana with raspberry, it tastes a bit like melon? (5)

NARAS (hidden word in (product of) BANANA RASPBERRY)  a slightly different way of indicating the container of the hidden word.

NARAS (edible melon-like fruit of a SW African long-rooted thorny cucurbitaceous shrub)

23

Sweetener making wise man lose head, lacking vigour (9)

CASPAR (one of the three wise men referred to in the Gospel of St Matthew) excluding the first letter (lose head) C + TAME (lacking vigour)

ASPARTAME (artificial sweetener)

25

Standard money, what earner brings home, last placed elsewhere (5)

Reference the phrase ‘ Bring home the BACON (provide material support; be the earner) with the last letter N moved forward in the word (last placed elsewhere)

BANCO

BANCO (the standard money in which a bank keeps its accounts, as distinguished from the current money of the place)

27

Part of shoe, pitfall when stone gets stuck in it (6)

ST (stone) contained in (get stuck in) TRAP (pitfall)

T (ST) RAP

T-STRAP (a T shaped STRAP on a shoe)

29

French fruit pancake (6)

FRAISE (French for strawberry; French fruit)

FRAISE (variant spelling of FROISE [thick pancake, often with slices of bacon]) double definition

30

Like echoes on entering rocky antres (8)

ON contained in (entering) an anagram of (rocky) ANTRES

RES (ON) ANT*

RESONANT (resounding; like echoes)

31

Mosquito genus is eradicated, disease disposed of (5)

Anagram of (disposed of) DISEASE excluding (eradicated) IS

AEDES*

AEDES (member of the AEDES genus of mosquitoes, which includes AEDES aegypti, the species that carries yellow fever and dengue fever)

32

Losing love, tissue’s godsend, distressed – repugnance resulting (13)

Anagram of (distressed) TISSUE’S GODSEND excluding (losing) O (zero; love score in tennis)

DISGUSTEDNESS*

DISGUSTEDNESS (repugnance)

1

Aussie singer: R & B driblets I put out (11)

Anagram of (put out) R and B DRIBLETS I

BRISTLEBIRD*

BRISTLEBIRD (small Australian songbird with bristles around its bill; Aussie singer)

2

Very good, a superb type on the up (4)

(A GEM [superb type]) all reversed (on the up; down clue)

(MEG A)<

MEGA (very good)

3

Young chicks showing reverse of taste inhaling grass (7)

(SUP [take into the mouth; taste] containing [inhaling] TELL [grass in the sense of inform on]) all reversed (showing reverse of)

(PU (LLET) S)<

PULLETS (young hens)

4

Mushroom put in to soak, idea got from repeated observation? (6)

CEP (type of edible mushroom) contained in (put in) RET (soak)

RE (CEP) T

RECEPT (image or idea formed by repeated similar perceptions / observations)

5

Design in striped plastic, feature of many window ledges? (11, 2 words)

PLAN (design) contained in (in) an anagram of (plastic) STRIPED

SPIDER (PLAN) T*

SPIDER PLANT (any of various plants of the genus Chlorophytum, with spiky, variegated leaves, type of plant often seen on widow ledges)

6

Harmful insect?  Get some deet in early (5)

TINEA (hidden word in [some] DEET IN EARLY)

TINEA (the clothes moth genus; insect)

7

Class kept in order?  Smut curtailed (4)

CROC (crocodile [double file of school pupils taking a walk; class kept in order])

8

Greek instrument raising a cheer after little old fiddle (7)

KIT (historical [old] term for a small pocket violin; little old fiddle) + ([A + RAH {cheer}] all reversed [raising; down clue])

KIT (HAR A)<

KITHARA (variant spelling of CITHARA [ancient Greek musical instrument differing from the lyre in its flat shallow sound chest.])

9

Deceptive manoeuvre in the field, step interrupting defeats (11, 2 words)

PAS (a step especially in ballet) contained in (interrupting) REVERSES (defeats)

REVERSE (PAS) S

REVERSE PASS (pass made when a player runs in one direction and passes in the opposite direction; deceptive manoeuvre in the field)

11

One thing plucked inside another, joined at a stroke (9)

HEN (a bird that has its feathers plucked in food preparation) contained in (inside) HYPATE (the lowest string of the lyre, an instrument that is plucked to play)

HYP (HEN) ATE

HYPHENATE (HYPHENATEd words are joined by a horizontal stroke)

13

Earthy deposits creating meander, as before, in river, English (9)

ERR (an archaic [as before] meaning of ERR is to wander [meander]) contained in (in) (TAMAR [river in Devon] + E [English])

T (ERR) AMAR E

TERRAMARE (dark earthy deposits formed under prehistoric pile-dwellings in Italy)

18

Crudity delineated when scratching just the opening letter (7)

DRAWN (delineated) excluding (scratching) the first letter (just the opening) D + ESS (the letter S)

RAWNESS (crudity)

19

Tart carelessly put on old evening stuff (not fine) (7)

Anagram of (carelessly) TART + E’EN (obsolete [old] word for evening)

RATT* EEN

RATTEEN (variant spelling of RATINE [rough {not fine} open dress fabric {stuff}])

21

Like a kiwi, say, it’s restricted in speed (6)

IT contained in (restricted by) RATE (speed)

RAT (IT) E

RATITE (descriptive of flightless birds, such as the ostrich, rhea, emu, kiwi, etc)

24

Bits of holy text?  Issue reams with regular excisions (5)

Letters remaining in ISSUE REAMS after letters 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 [regular] [I ,S, E, E and M] are excluded [incisions]

SURAS (chapters of the Koran; bits of holy text)

26

Jam caught on record (4)

C (caught) + LOG (record)

CLOG (get stuck; jam)

28

Hamlet’s forefathers were, famously, dead in sorrow (4)

D [dead] contained in [in] RUE [sorrow])

RU (D) E

RUDE (reference line 16 of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray which reads ‘The RUDE forefathers of the hamlet sleep’)