I enjoyed this very much. Not too hard but with plenty of opportunity to browse through Chambers looking for interesting words. Thank you AZED.
| Across | ||
| 1 | BOOGALOO | Black girl between two pairs in popular dance (8) |
| B (black) then GAL (girl) between OO and OO (two pairs)- a pair in cricket is a failure to score in either innings, so two zeros | ||
| 7 | BROD | Nail poster, ill trimmed, on pole (4) |
| Bill (poster, missing ill) on ROD (pole) – I wasted a lot of time trying to make this be BRAD (another nail) | ||
| 10 | SUBAVERAGE | Stand-in to declare being old, worse than mediocre? (10) |
| SUB (stand-in) AVER AGE (to declare being old) | ||
| 11 | TETRA | Fish and boiled tater (5) |
| TATER* anagram=boiled | ||
| 12 | TAMAL | One Mexican speciality or another company polished off before sickness (5) |
| TAco (another Mexican speciality) missing CO (company) before MAL (sickness) | ||
| 14 | TREEFARM | Bank entering shifting mart – might it yield profitable deal? (8, 2 words) |
| REEF (bank) in MART* anagram=shifting – deal is timber | ||
| 15 | LENG | Tarry as once in highland valley, heading to eastward? (4) |
| GLEN (highland valley) with first letter moved to the right (eastern end) | ||
| 16 | TAMEST | Pre-lunch period in international, extremely dull (6) |
| AM (pre-lunch period) in TEST (international, cricket match) | ||
| 18 | PUGGAREE | Senior servant once wildly eager for anti-sun protection (8) |
| PUG (senior civil servant, obsolete) with EAGRE* anagram=wildly | ||
| 20 | SPHYGMUS | Keeping constant, watch grand musical beat indicator? (8) |
| SPY (watch) contains (keeping) H (h, Planck’sconstant) then G (grand) and MUS (musical) – the pulse, heartbeat indicator | ||
| 23 | LOUPIT | Primitive latrine, we hear , burst in the bothie? (6) |
| LOU PIT sounds like (we hear) “loo pit” (primitive latrine) – definition is ‘burst’, ‘in the bothie’ indicates Scottish usage | ||
| 26 | DISC | Showing (not losing) what early Olympian competed with (4) |
| DISClosing (showing) missing LOSING | ||
| 27 | MONOSOME | Unpaired accessory soon trashed with old blockhead around (8) |
| SOON* anagram=trashed inside MOME (blockhead, old=Spenserian) – the unpaired accessory or X chromasome. I didn’t quite understand this definition from Chambers, and looking up “accessory chromasome” in Wikipedia just left memore confused. | ||
| 28 | DETOX | Hand maybe drops in, about to dry out? (5) |
| inDEX (hand, on a scale maybe) missing IN containing (about) TO | ||
| 29 | HELEN | Lover of Paris – Sainte-Chapelle? Place she is at, excited (5) |
| SAINT-CHAPELLE is an anagram (excited) of PLACE HELEN (she) IS AT | ||
| 30 | EXENTERATE | Draw: opener of exhibition mostly for adults only inveigling teen wrongly (10) |
| Exhibition (opening letter of) X-RATEd (for adults only, mostly) containing (inveigling) TEEN* anagram=wrongly | ||
| 31 | RADE | What John Peel did in day listener retains, looking back? (4) |
| D (day) inside (retained by) EAR (listener) reversed (looking back) – an old Northern English spelling for ride, John Peel was a Cumbrian fox hunter imortalised in the folk song:
D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray? |
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| 32 | DRABETTE | Mangle battered linen fabric, not fine (8) |
| BATTERED* anagram=mangle – a coarse linen fabric | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | BOTTLESLIDER | Decanter tray I’d let circulate with lobster (12) |
| anagram (circulate) of I’D LET and LOBSTER | ||
| 2 | OVEREXPOSE | Give too much publicity to pooves jostling round English king (10) |
| POOVES* anagram=jostling containing E (English) REX (king) | ||
| 3 | OSTENT | Extra-large canvas making appearance in Shakespeare (6) |
| OS (out-size, extra large) TENT (canvas) | ||
| 4 | ABAFT | Coming out on top is one trailing in award, i.e. behind (5) |
| BAFTA (award) with the trailing A now on the top | ||
| 5 | LABARUM | Moral guide, one surrounded by lip (7) |
| A (one) inside LABRUM (lip) | ||
| 6 | OVERT | Too much time in public (5) |
| OVER (too much) and T (time) | ||
| 7 | BRAHMAN | Cheer accepted by baron fellow, one’s who’s socially superior (7) |
| RAH (cheer) inside B (baron) and MAN (fellow) | ||
| 8 | RAMPER | One to hustle and back up politician getting in (6) |
| REAR (back) reversed (up) containing MP (politician) | ||
| 9 | DELITESCENCE | Remaining dormant, duke leads select group, conservative in view (12) |
| D (duke) in front of (leads) ELITE (select group) then C (conservative) in SCENE (view) – I notice that Azed has clued conservative all lower case, though the abbreviation is for Conservative (a proper noun). Can any long-time Azed followers tell me if ignoring capitalisation is Azed’s usual style? I’m not complaining about the clue, just curious to know. | ||
| 13 | ASSESSMENT | Tax to be paid twits posted, money included (10) |
| ASSES (twits) SENT (posted) containing M (money) | ||
| 17 | HYPNONE | Aromatic soporific phony flogged undiluted, at disappearing? (7) |
| PHONY* anagram=flogged with NEat (undiluted) missing AT | ||
| 19 | GUNNERA | Bloomer made by artilleryman, amateur (7) |
| GUNNER (artilleryman) and A (amateur) | ||
| 21 | HUNTED | Barbarian yob, a victim of venery? (6) |
| HUN (barbarian) and TED (teddy boy, yob) | ||
| 22 | VIOLET | Love, extremes of love, admitted by Vita endlessly – for me? (6) |
| O (love) LovE (extreme letters of) inside VITa (endlessly) – Violet Trefusis, lover of Vita Sackville-West | ||
| 24 | TONER | Skin lotion treatment’s beginning with a dab (5) |
| Treatment (beginning letter of) with ONER (dab, an expert) | ||
| 25 | COHAB | Bach., deliriously in love? The opposite – one shares digs, though (5) |
| O (love) in BACH* anagram=deliriously | ||
*anagram
definitions are underlined
Thank you PeeDee, not enough trawling Chambers here.