Surprisingly easy — managed most of the puzzle while watching a replay of Germany/Italy. Probably had to make more trips to the chamberpot than to Chambers. Obviously I was distracted since more than a few sloppy parses pointed out by kind commentators!
| Across | ||
| 1 | CHILDCROWING | Youth triumphant, causing nervous affection of the larynx (12) |
| CHILD=youth,CROWING=triumphant | ||
| 9 | HUTU | African imprisoned, denied special surrounding (4) |
| [s]HUTU[p] – sp=abbrev(special). The bad guys in the Rwandan massacre. | ||
| 10 | RAUN | Caviar for Walter, a filling course? (4) |
| R(A)UN – Scots (thus ref. Sir Walter Scott I suppose) roe. | ||
| 12 | IN ON | Party to duck, held in the local? (4, 2 words) |
| IN(O)N – O=zero=duck in cricketese. | ||
| 13 | AMYTAL | During a sickness, starts to yawn – that’s being fed sedative (6) |
| A,M(Y,T)AL – mal=sickness (from the French) and first letters of “to yawn” for a sleeping pill. Actually first letters of “yawn — that’s”. | ||
| 14 | PETER | Rabbit? What one may be when brought before HM? (5) |
| PET,ER – I suppose the current queen doesn’t have favourites but the first ER certainly did. In addition, a rabbit itself might be a pet. Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rabbit | ||
| *16 | MISHMASH | A medley (8) |
| The competition word. I’m off the hook. | ||
| 18 | ENDRIN | Toxic substance that’s ruined dinner (6) |
| dinner* – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endrin | ||
| 19 | ENERGETICS | One of the sciences (Greece isn’t involved) (10) |
| (Greece isn’t)* | ||
| 22 | SNOW CHAINS | What’ll help you get a grip? As things are, tea, among group of seven? (10, 2 words) |
| S(NOW,CHA)INS – tea=CHA, as things are=NOW in SINS=which is a group of seven (deadly). | ||
| 25 | PUTTIE | Connect knot for legging (6) |
| PUT=connect,TEE=knot but why? Since it’s actually TIE=knot for PUTTIE=puttee. | ||
| 29 | MEDUSOID | Hydrozoan, odious, not the first found swimming in the sea (8) |
| ([o]dious)* in MED=sea. Type of jellyfish. | ||
| 30 | TORES | Mouldings in warehouse, front to back (5) |
| Take “store”=warehouse and move first letter to end. | ||
| 31 | RESUME | One practising turns in front of the author produces CV (6) |
| RESU,ME – rev(user=one practising) followed by ME=”the author” (of this puzzle). | ||
| 32 | IMAM | Mosque officer? Don’t give —— for ’is supper! (4) |
| haha. ‘IM,’AM – as in “don’t give him ham for his supper… since he’s presumably Muslim and thus doesn’t eat pork”. | ||
| 33 | DIES | Ides possibly? Character ending life enters underworld (4) |
| ides* – I think this is a semi-&lit since wordplay is also ([lif]e)* in Dis=underworld. Also Ides names a day which Latin dies is as well so an abundance of cryptic riches here. | ||
| 34 | OWER | Scots on top? Or, when England rallies, they’re leading (4) |
| First letters. Scots over. | ||
| 35 | MALAPERTNESS | Pre-natal mishandled, in disorder, showing lack of respect (12) |
| (Pre-natal)* in mess. | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | CHAMBERPOT | Tempo Bach varied when involving River Jordan (10) |
| R in (Tempo Bach) * – turns out Jordan is archaic slang (biblical?) for a chamberpot. | ||
| 2 | HUMIC | Mucker, I’ll be shifting first to last of rich soil (5) |
| Take CHUM=mate=mucker followed by I and move first letter to end to get HUMIC (ref. humus=rich soil). | ||
| 3 | LUTHERN | Church reformer dominating north window (7) |
| LUTHER,N – a dormer window. | ||
| 4 | DRAMA | Drink precedes a display of histrionics (5) |
| DRAM,A | ||
| 5 | RUSSET | Classical country group – hempen homespun? (6) |
| RUS,SET – “Course homespun cloth…” – RUS=abbrev(Russia) and SET=group but not sure why “classical”? Because of all… the music? ballets? I feel like I’m missing something. Yes I was missing that rus=rural=country in Latin thus “classical”. | ||
| 6 | WIELD | Handle fuse I inserted (5) |
| W(I)ELD | ||
| 7 | INTARSIA | Decorative inlay tsarina ordered and I installed (8) |
| I in tsarina* – “… decorative wood inlay…” | ||
| 8 | NOETIAN | No friend of Trinitarians, and one anti converting (7) |
| (one anti)* – I don’t pretend to understand religious schisms, sects etc. but you can learn about them here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity | ||
| 11 | ALATE | Façade of temple flanked by wings recently (but no longer) (5) |
| ALA(T)E – archaic lately. ALAE=winged. | ||
| 15 | RINGSIDERS | Horsemen circling meadows – they get a good view of the action (10) |
| R(INGS)IDERS – ing=meadow. | ||
| 17 | VESTURAL | Nun bagging bits of unwanted rags, such as old clothes (8) |
| VEST(U,R)AL – first letters of “unwanted rags” in VESTAL=nun. | ||
| 20 | NEUROMA | Man strangely swallows coin, developing tumour (7) |
| EURO=coin in Man*. | ||
| 21 | CAISSON | Aristo’s head is thus replacing contents of clean tumbril (7) |
| C(A,IS,SO)N – where A,IS,SO replaces “lea” of “clean” to produce something meaning a tumbril (wagon). | ||
| 23 | WEENIE | Smoked sausage that is following tiny starter of niçoise (6) |
| WEE,N,IE – affectionate name for a wiener. Basically a hot dog. | ||
| 24 | CADRE | Revolutionary group around active Red (5) |
| C=around,A=active,Red*. More accurately, CA=about=around and “active” is the anagrind. | ||
| 26 | THEMA | Cheers enveloping fringe subject (5) |
| T(HEM)A – TA=thanks, HEM=fringe — theme. | ||
| 27 | QUEST | What one’s looking for in antique store (5) |
| hidden | ||
| 28 | LIMES | Boundary trees (5) |
| two meanings – one is Latin limits basically. | ||
*anagram
Thanks for the blog, ilancaron.
10a: The Chambers entry for raun credits the spelling to Walter Scott, but it is also given as a variant spelling under rawn¹ with no mention of him.
25a is PUTTIE.
5d: RUS means ‘the country’ in Latin; it’s the root of RURAL.
Thanks for PUT,TIE – I missed the synonym. And likewise thanks for classical RUS. Another small trap.
Thanks for the blog, Ilancaron.
In AMYTAL, it’s “yawn that” whose first letters are being used.
In CADRE I think active is the anagram indicator for RED, with C standing for around.
Yes — correct on both counts. I was sloppy in the two cases.
In CADRE it must be CA for around.
Rus is also the old Russian word for … Old Russia, so I didn’t get round to thinking of the Latin connection.