Another Schadenfreude for me to blog; anything to do with Columbus, I wonder, given the number of the puzzle?
Preamble: Corrections to single letter misprints in the definition parts of twelve clues can be arranged to form the thematic phrase to be written beneath the grid. Having entered all the clue answers solvers must fill the unoccupied cells to complete a cryptic representation of the phrase. Numbers in brackets give the lengths of final grid entries, all real words or phrases.
A smattering of answers emerged from a first pass through the clues, particularly in the top left quadrant, and the pattern forming from the unoccupied cells suggested a diamond shape. Working with this hypothesis helped a lot in solving quite a few others. In general, the letter that had to fill an empty cell was unambiguous, 4d MEALIEST to become MEASLIEST for example. 
No major problems to hold me up, and before too long the grid was largely complete and there were just 2 or 3 of the 12 misprinted definitions still to pin down. These yielded in fairly short measure, leaving me with GDDNMUROOHIA to be arranged to form the thematic phrase, and the letters filling the empty cells, PHYSICAL .. UPSET ILL .., to be finished. Removing the letters of DIAMOND from the list of 12 corrections left me with an anagram of ROUGH, so it’s ROUGH DIAMOND that has to be written below the grid; and reading the erstwhile empty cells clockwise from the bottom (instead of from the left) gives ILL OR PHYSICALLY UPSET, which is one meaning of “rough” (in the shape of a diamond).
Not much more to say, really – as to the title of the puzzle, Rude = ROUGH, Card = DIAMOND.
Thanks go to Schadenfreude – reminiscent of #1456 and VICIOUS CIRCLE from last September.
What next? ETERNAL TRIANGLE, maybe.
| Across | |||||
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| No. | Clue | Answer | Correction | Wordplay | |
| 1 | Jolly doctor in vehicle attended by breakdown service (7) | CARAMBA | G | golly | MB (doctor) in CAR (vehicle) + AA (breakdown service) |
| 6 | Fog to remain restricting advance by ship (6) | LASSIE | D | dog | LIE (remain) around A(dvance) + SS (ship) |
| 11 | Chicken around five drops soft unfertilized egg (5) | OVULE | POULE (chicken) around V (five) − P (soft) | ||
| 12 | Cause excitement to goddess holding important date (7) | AERATE | ATE (goddess) around ERA (important date) | ||
| 13 | Halt the growth of Australian tree (4) | NIPA | NIP (halt the growth of) A(ustralian) | ||
| 14 | Formal address to the Bishop miles outside Wye by old Rural Dean (7, 2 words) | MY LORD | ML (miles) around Y (wye) O(ver) RD (Rural Dean) | ||
| 15 | Irish tenor is interrupting your number (7) | THIRTY | IR(ish) T(enor) in THY (your) | ||
| 17 | Attempt to take over Bathsheba’s husband (4) | TROY | TRY (attempt) around O(ver) {ref.: Far from the Madding Crowd} |
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| 18 | Enjoy story about king (5) | LIKE | LIE (story) around K(ing) | ||
| 20 | Elizabeth to remain with second son (5) | BESS | BE (remain) S(econd) S(on) | ||
| 22 | Range commander (4) | AGA | double definition | ||
| 23 | A united republic (4) | PERU | PER (a) U(nited) | ||
| 24 | Driver succeeded by reserve (5) | SICE | S(ucceeded) ICE (reserve) | ||
| 28 | Mobile Virginian’s behind the main body (5) | MASS | M(obile) ASS (behind, N Am) | ||
| 30 | Reasonable old hospital base (4) | SANE | SAN (hospital) E (base) | ||
| 31 | India’s contributing to heavy toll (5) | SAID | D | told | I(ndia) in SAD (heavy) |
| 34 | Two points for retired contemptible chap (5) | SNOT | S+N (South+North, two points) TO< (for) | ||
| 35 | Rare feat to capture Troy (5) | NETT | N | neat | NET (capture) T(roy) |
| 37 | Bird no longer keeping name private (5) | MONA | M | primate | MOA (extinct bird) around N(ame) |
| 39 | Comparatively crazy American director (7) | WILDER | double definition {ref.: Gene W.} | ||
| 40 | Soils are special on main ground (7) | ANIMAS | U | souls | A(re) S(pecial) after [MAIN]* |
| 41 | A garden still old-fashioned with hidden depth (4) | EDEN | E’EN (still, archaic) around D(epth) | ||
| 42 | Lecturer following second age relating to an ecological sequence (6) | SERAL | L(ecturer) after S(econd) ERA (age) | ||
| 43 | Engineers almost always fasten with a rope (5) | REEVE | RE (engineers) EVE(r) (always) | ||
| 44 | God’s taking educated guesses for the old-fashioned (6) | AREDES | ARES (god) around ED(ucated) | ||
| 45 | Member caging strong bird (7) | KESTREL | KEEL (member) around STR(ong) | ||
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| No. | Clue | Answer | Correction | Wordplay | |
| 1 | Against Turkey a quiet opposition (8) | CONTRAST | CON (against) TR (Turkey) A ST (quiet) | ||
| 2 | Sore artist keeping completely independent (6) | RUPIA | RA (artist) around UP (completely) + I(ndependent) | ||
| 3 | A carcinogen Mike extracted from bone (5) | ALAR | MALAR (bone) − M(ike) | ||
| 4 | Substance covering pork pies is most speckled (9) | MEALIEST | MEAT (substance) around LIES (pork pies) | ||
| 5 | Bishop in a jacket (4) | BAT | R | racket | B(ishop) AT (in) |
| 6 | Provoke aversion in assurgent outcast (6) | LEPER | REPEL< (provoke aversion) | ||
| 7 | In places some women leaving wrongly (4) | ARY | AWRY (wrongly) − W(omen) | ||
| 8 | Witty subaltern enters to make a statement (6) | SALTY | LT (subaltern) in SAY (make a statement) | ||
| 9 | Ships moved quickly into empty seas (7) | STORES | O | shops | TORE (moved quickly) in S(ea)S |
| 10 | Shedding of outer cover from slipped disc? Yes (7) | ECDYSIS | [DISC YES]* | ||
| 16 | Regional vegetable store with space for stale hard liquor (6) | HOGEN | HOG (vegetable store, dialect) EN (space) | ||
| 19 | Range of knowledge about eastern law (4) | KEEN | O | low | KEN (range of knowledge) around E(astern) |
| 20 | Vagrant stumbles changing hands, revealing trousers (9) | BUMSTERS | [STUMBLES]* with R for L (changing hands) | ||
| 21 | Scare solicitor with murder in Brooklyn (6) | SLICE | H | share | SL (solicitor) ICE (murder, US) |
| 25 | Is one travelling around Italy to use an ancient dialect? (7) | IONISE | [IS ONE]* around I(taly) | ||
| 26 | One about to stop husband’s excessive desires (7) | MANIAS | I (one) + A(bout) in MAN’S (husband’s) | ||
| 27 | Note left in Jock’s yard to repair part of the roof (7) | RETILE | TI (note) L(eft) in REE (yard, Scot) | ||
| 29 | Crippled foreign character (6) | LAMED | double definition | ||
| 32 | A day in the German summer (6) | ADDER | A D(ay) in DER (the, German) | ||
| 33 | Grass died near poisoned lake (6) | DARNEL | D(ied) [NEAR]* L(ake) | ||
| 36 | Local Dutch form of on-line writing (5) | LEET | I | ditch | double definition |
| 37 | Prestige to strengthen academy (4) | MANA | MAN (strengthen) A(cademy) | ||
| 38 | Republican supporting a certain Bush (4) | ONER | A | bash | R(epublican) after ONE (a certain) |
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A fairly gentle offering from Schadenfreude that I thoroughly enjoyed. Not much to add to the above really, a welcome diversion on (yet another) wet Bank Holiday weekend.
My feelings exactly, Jon @1. Thanks to Sch… (you know who!) and to HG for another solid analysis.
This must have been on the easy side, as I finished it. What detained me most was the wrong assumption that 19d, ‘keen’, was providing an R, for raw, rather than the actual O for low. If you see what I mean.
Thanks to Schadenfreude and HG.
Like Neil @3, I also had 19d providing R for RAW. Held me up for quite a while too.
We expected the puzzle to be more difficult than it was – didn’t spoil the fun though and as time is fairly limited at the moment we were quite relieved.
Not much to add really. The diamond shape revealed itself fairly quickly as HG has already commented, which helped the solve.
Thanks to Schadenfreude and HG
Having a bit of time I worked through this without a dictionary and almost completed it, but when it came to filling in the diamond I hit too many uncertainties to piece the final ‘representation’ together. Resorting in the end to the dictionary I thought I’d finished it off, but, perhaps as a legacy of my earlier attempts, I’d ended up with ‘I look physically upset’, which does sort of work – though that stubbornly non-existent MONAO niggled. I think I’d briefly considered, and rejected, ‘Ill or …’, but for some reason felt it didn’t work. Ah well, a highly enjoyable, if prolonged, solve.
I had PHYSICALLY, UPSET, ILL and OK. OK being “roughly” as in the middle, roughly so. Not as good as HG’s version.
I did not find this as easy as everyone else seems to have done. It took me a few days to finish. Thanks to all.
Alas, although the symmetry (which I was sort of expecting from Schadenfreude) was a great help in filling the grid, I confess to failing the endgame. Saw PHYSICALLY UPSET and — forgetting the lesson of Vicious Circle — became fixated on trying to find something (or an anagram of something) diamond-like for the rest. At one stage I was only a single letter away from the correct solution, but somehow couldn’t see it. Argh!