Thank you Azed. I never get the least bit tired of solving and blogging these puzzles. I can’t explain why this as (specials apart) they have less variation than any other of the puzzles I solve.
| Across | ||
| 1 | ASTRADDLE | Departs pub game that’s over, tucked into beer, ready for the off? (9) |
| D (departs) DARTS (pub game) reversed (that’s over) inside (tucked into) ALE (beer) | ||
| 11 | COHEN | Synagogue elder, male brought in to teach formerly (5) |
| HE (a male) inside CON (to teach, formerly) | ||
| 12 | REALTIE | Tear manufactured with lie? Once the opposite thereof (7) |
| anagram (manufactured) of TEAR with LIE | ||
| 13 | LURGI | Nameless malady right inside ear – iodine applied (5) |
| R (right) in LUG (ear) with I (iodine) | ||
| 14 | TRANT | Attendant offloading minis to peddle (5) |
| minisTRANT (attendant) missing MINIS | ||
| 15 | AVICENNA | Polymath of yore, one attending college in European capital (8) |
| A (one) with (attending) C (college) in VIENNA (European capital) | ||
| 16 | SLATTER | Paint Pollock-style, singular, modern? (7) |
| S (singular) LATTER (modern) | ||
| 17 | BIGG | Barley of a kind? Granary displays one but not garden (4) |
| Granary has a BIG G but garden does not | ||
| 19 | TARTANED | Mediterranean vessel departs in distinctive colours (8) |
| TARTANE (Mediterranean vessel) then D (departs) | ||
| 22 | HARMALIN | Nail damaged after injury? Caper derivative required (8) |
| anagram (damaged) of NAIL following HARM (injury) | ||
| 25 | RITZ | What, we hear, does it dread getting from disgruntled guests? (4) |
| I think this refers to the Ritz hotel, whose management may dread getting writs (we hear=homophone) from disgruntled guests. I can’t figure out what to underline as the definition here. | ||
| 27 | SHINGLE | Bank, stony? One requiring injection of cash ultimately (7) |
| SINGLE (one) containing casH (ultimately) | ||
| 28 | PHLEGMON | Boil maybe GP treated with hot lemon (8) |
| anagram (treated) of GP with LEMON | ||
| 31 | IAI-DO | Martial art I practise, ideal inside (5) |
| I DO (practice) containing AI (A1, ideal) | ||
| 32 | DOUAI | French university degree, one in French certainly (5) |
| D (degree) A (one) in OUI (certainly in French) | ||
| 33 | PAN-ARAB | Uniting much of the ME, a prince back in lead (7) |
| A RANA (prince) reversed (back) in PB (Pb, lead) | ||
| 34 | GRADS | Dictionary university’s not allowed in? They’ll have passed finals (5) |
| GRADuS (dictionary) missing U (university) | ||
| 35 | CARINATED | Like many a vessel from Central America in trade at sea (9) |
| anagram (at sea) of CA (central America) with IN TRADE | ||
| Down | ||
| 2 | SOUVLAKI | Losing run, valour wasted, runner admits, ‘One’s skewered’ (8) |
| anagram (wasted) of VALOUr missing R (run) inside (…admits) SKI (runner) | ||
| 3 | THRO | Add as free extra, sacrificing win all the way (4) |
| THROw in (add as free extra) missing WIN | ||
| 4 | REGATTA | Race meeting producing great reverberating cheers (7) |
| anagram (reverberating) of GREAT then TA (cheers) | ||
| 5 | DRIVEN | Ambitious Verdi composed opening for Nabucco (6) |
| anagram (composed) of VERDI then Nabucco (opening letter of) | ||
| 6 | DESIRE | Longing I’ll have to be housed in nice home (but not special) (6) |
| I inside (will have to be housed in) DES REs (nice home) missing S (special) | ||
| 7 | LATCH | Part of the furniture in hall at Chequers? (5) |
| found inside (in) halL AT CHequers – part of the door furniture perhaps | ||
| 8 | STANIEL | You may find elanet, first off, is mistaken for one (7) |
| anagram (mistaken) eLANET (missing first letter) and IS – you may find an elanet is mistaken for a staniel | ||
| 9 | FINN | Head of force, local or national (4) |
| Force (first letter, head of) then INN (local) | ||
| 10 | METAGENESIS | Alternation of generations? Teen miss is upset about one of them (11) |
| anagram (is upset) of TEEN MISS containing (about) AGE (one of the generations) | ||
| 11 | CLYSTER-PIPE | Scots tell tales about dodgy priest – it aids fundamental cleansing (11) |
| CLYPE (tell tales, Scots) containing anagram (dodgy) of PRIEST | ||
| 18 | GRILLADE | Old BBQ stuff, rank? One gets sick inside (8) |
| GRADE (rank) contains ILL (sick) | ||
| 20 | RATLING | Crewman grasping end of taffrail – it helped him climb aloft (7) |
| RATING (crewman) contains (grasping) taffraiL (end letter of) | ||
| 21 | MANDORA | Chap with a stick for measuring up early instrument (7) |
| MAN (chap) with A ROD (stick for measuring) reversed (up) | ||
| 23 | ASMEAR | Once coated in oily stuff, a brand has head of match inserted (6) |
| A SEAR (brand) contains (has…inserted) MAtch (head of) | ||
| 24 | RHOMBI | Geometrical figures transforming hob rim (6) |
| anagram (transforming) of HOB RIM | ||
| 26 | AGORA | Market forming circle in Indian city –see a white man there? (5) |
| O (circle) in AGRA (Indian city), and also A GORA (white man in India) | ||
| 29 | HAAF | Where trawler is heading back when it’s replaced line (4) |
| HALF (back, position in rugby) with L (line) being replace by A (it, dialectical). |
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| 30 | QUAT | Stanza missing second half, Milton’s botch (4) |
| QUATrain (verse) missing second half | ||
definitions are underlined
I write these posts to help people get started with cryptic crosswords. If there is something here you do not understand ask a question; there are probably others wondering the same thing.
This one defeated me. I was out most of Sunday so I didn’t really start it till Monday and got stuck with half a dozen still to get. However, I see putting BLASTERPIPE for 11dn didn’t help. I don’t know where I got that from. I thought I’d seen it in Chambers but I must have misread “blast pipe”.
I cannot tell you what pleasure on a Sunday morning reading the Azed blog gives me, so thank you both.
29a. My Chambers gives a definition of “A”: (dialect) (pronoun) he; she; it; they.
On the easier side for Azed I thought, and as pleasurable a solve as ever.