Azed 2301

1

Rough old evening in Paris for Notre Dame dredger? (9)

ASPER (obsolete [old] word for rough) + SOIR (French [Paris] for evening)

ASPERSOIR (holy-eater sprinkler; Notre Dame [Paris Cathedral] dredger [container with a perforated lid for sprinkling])

12

Symptom of diabetes sorted out a drinker’s insides (9)

Anagram of (sorted) OUT and A and RINKE (central letters [insides] of DRINKER)

KETONURIA*

KETONURIA (the excretion of urine with an abnormally high number of ketone bodies, especially as a symptom of diabetes mellitus)

13

Special box for Jock’s shirt (4)

S (special) + ARK (chest or coffer; box)

SARK (Scottish [Jock] word for shirt)

14

Hold boxing special for American blouse (5)

WAIT (hold) containing (boxing) S (special)

WAI (S) T

WAIST (American term for a woman’s blouse or bodice)

15

Something like Bordeaux mixture?  It’s cooked with ham recipe (6)

Anagram of (cooked) IT, HAM ad R [recipe]

THIRAM*

THIRAM (fungicide.  Bordeaux mixture is a mixture of lime and copper sulphate, used to kill fungus and insect parasites on plants)

16

Had lunch at rear of Green Man?  It’s natural (6)

INN (Green Man is a common name for an inn) + ATE (had lunch, for example)

INNATE (instinctive; natural)

17

Ambling canter, first to last – only a minor undulation (7)

TRIPPLE (a horse’s ambling canter) with the first letter (first) T moved to the end [last]

RIPPLET

RIPPLET (a small undulation)

20

Rand I enclosed in letter from Tel Aviv (4)

I contained in (enclosed) AYN (reference AYN Rand [1905 – 1982] Russian-born American novelist)

AY (I) N

AYIN (sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet as used in Tel Aviv [Israeli city])

22

Timeless salute, twice – a charming thing (8)

GREET (salute) excluding T (time) + GREET (salute) excluding T (time) [twice]

GREEGREE (African charm)

23

Damage label attached to lily (8)

MAR (damage) + TAG (label) + ON (attached to)

MARTAGON (purple Eurasian lily)

25

A little Scottie dog name (4)

CUR (dog) + N (name)

CURN (Scottish word for little)

27

US City Police front man showing endurance (7)

LA (Los Angeles; US city) + STING (stage name of Gordon Sumner, lead singer of The Police rock band)

LASTING (showing endurance)

29

Moustache sported by Brando on screen?  (Lead in Zorro a minor hit with one) (6)

Z (first letter of [lead in] ZORRO ) + A + PAT (minor hit) + A (one)

ZAPATA (type of flowing moustache drooping down on each side of the mouth; also reference the 1952 film Viva ZAPATA! starring Marlon Brando)

31

Ladies maybe let off twice in the long grass (6)

TOILET (e.g. Ladies) excluding (off) LET + TOILET (e.g. Ladies) excluding (off) LET  (twice)

TOITOI (any of several tall reedlike grasses native to New Zealand)

32

Oxygen to provide for e.g. rocket’s nose (5)

O (chemical symbol for Oxygen) + GIVE (provide)

OGIVE ( something that has the form of an OGIVE, especially the nose of a rocket or missile)

33

Rare wood, black – age rings (4)

EON (vast age) containing (ring) B (black when describing pencil lead))

E (B) ON

EBON (rare especially poetic form of EBONY [heavy hard wood])

34

Device for raising water with a tap installed for pools (9)

NORIA (endless chain of buckets on a wheel for raising water from a stream into irrigation channels) containing (with … installed) (A + TAT [tap])

N (A TAT) ORIA

NATATORIA (swimming pools)

35

Strong wind damaged aero stern (9)

Anagram of (damaged) AERO STERN

NOR‘-EASTER*

NOR’-EASTER (strong wind from the NORth EAST)

2

Well, hello,  Here’s one that rode into battle (5)

SPA (mineral spring; well) + HI (hello)

SPAHI (formerly, a Turkish or French Algerian cavalryman.; here’s one that rode into battle)

3

Medicinal weed I tear up repeatedly (8)

(I + RIP [tear] reversed [up; down clue]) + (I + RIP [tear] reversed [up; down clue]) (repeatedly)

(PIR I PIR I)<

PIRI-PIRI (New Zealand weed with prickly burrs (Acaenae sanguisorbae) used medicinally and as a tea)

4

Weeds aplenty are tangled round clearing, climbing (8, 2 words)

Anagram of (tangled) ARE containing (round) GLADE (clearing) reversed (climbing; down clue)

R (ED ALG)< AE*

RED ALGAE (one of the great divisions [aplenty] of seaweeds, the Rhodophyceae or Florideae, containing a red pigment.

5

Latest? EMI limits this plug for mine (4)

STEM (hidden word in (limits) LATEST EMI)

STEM (plug for mine)

6

Nothing replaces head of polished limestone (6)

POLITE (polished) with O (zero; nothing) replacing the first letter (head) P

OOLITE

OOLITE (kind of limestone composed of grains like the eggs or roe of a fish)

7

Woolly donned by gaucho, an endless emanation coming up? (5)

(AN + AURA excluding the final letter [endless] A) all reversed (coming up; down clue)

(RUA NA)<

RUANA (woollen outer garment resembling a poncho, worn in parts of S America; woolly donned by a gaucho [cowboy of the pampas])

8

Is repose shattered with one in opera seria? (4)

OPERA SERIA is an anagram [shattered] of REPOSE and [with] ARIA

OPERA SERIA*

ARIA (opera seria is serious opera in which ARIAs will be sung, perhaps loudly enough to disturb one reposing nearby)

9

Level below first in maths is dimmer (7)

M (first letter of [first in] MATHS)  + IS + TIER (level)  This being a down clue, TIER is located below MIS in the grid

MISTIER (dimmer)

10

Green Goddess as was, transformed by a newer tinge (11, 2 words

Anagram of (transformed) A NEWER TINGE

WATER ENGINE*

WATER ENGINE (Green Goddesses are a type of fire engine operated by the army in civil emergencies)

11

Cut in fencing that’s damaged reset round major river (1)

Anagram of (damaged) RESET containing (round) AMAZON (a major river)

ESTR (AMAZON) E*

ESTRAMAZONE (variant spelling of STRAMAZON [downward cut in fencing])

18

‘Brains‘ is confused with reason (8)

Anagram of (confused) IS and REASON

SENSORIA*

SENSORIA (brains)

19

Spooner’s beast, overweight, creature of the night mainly? (8, 2 words)

FRUIT BAT (a Spoonerism of FRUIT BAT is BRUTE [beast] FAT [overweight])

FRUIT BAT (any bat of the suborder Megacheiroptera; a flying mammal associated with the night)

21

Aggressive weapon in point of fact including a revolver?  The reverse (7)

(NAY [in point of fact] containing [including] [A + GAT {Gatling gun, a machine gun with a cluster of rotating barrels, revolver?}])  all reversed (the reverse)

(YA (TAG A) N)<

YATAGAN (Turkish sword or long dagger, without a guard and usually curved; aggressive weapon)

24

Units associated with such Hollywood allure?  Moguls ran it possibly (6)

MOGULS RAN IT is an anagram of (possibly) UNITS and [associated with] GLAMOR

MOGULS RAN IT*

GLAMOR (American [Hollywood] term for allure)

26

The old man given advantage in formal dance (5)

PA (father; old man) + VAN (advantage)

PAVAN (slow formal dance of Spanish origin)

28

Worst mark penned by beak, making one twitch? (5)

O (zero; lowest score; worst mark) contained in (penned by) NOSE (beak)

NO (O) SE

NOOSE (one definition of twitch is NOOSE)

30

Ruth getting above herself?  Cut up (4)

UPPITY (difficult to control; getting above oneself) excluding (cut) UP

PITY (Ruth as a girl’s name is associated with PITY)

31

Stepney, maybe part of city region (4)

TYRE (hidden word in [part of] CITY REGION)

TYRE (stepney is a figurative expression for a spare wheel; TYRE can be defined as a metal hoop to bind a wheel as well as the rubber cushion that goes on the wheel))