It took me several sittings to (almost) complete this one. The puddings weren’t too difficult to identify, but some of the coins were new to me.
I haven’t quite managed to finish the puzzle, as I don’t have a satisfactory parsing for 19dn, but I’m fairly confident I have the rest of the crossword worked out.
| Across | ||
| 1 | POPODAMVER | Dad’s trouble returning, male truly lacking ultimate yen (10) |
| POP (“dad”) + <=ADO (“trouble”, returning) + M(ale) + VER(y) (“truly”, lacking ultimate y(en))
POPOVER – dessert / DAM – coin |
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| 11 | AVICULA | Oysters copper consumed in Teresa’s place (7) |
| Cu (“copper”) in AVILA (“Teresa’s place”)
Teresa of Avila was a 16th century Carmelite nun and mystic. |
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| 12 | SOTHO | Bantu language that latterly is observed in London district (5) |
| (tha)T observed in SOHO (“London district”) | ||
| 13 | NECK | Kiss cheek (4) |
| Double definition | ||
| 14 | FORESTEAL | Colt skirting trees growing wild, jungly (9) |
| FOAL (“colt”) skirting *(trees) | ||
| 15 | DROPPERS | Drive work on loosed individual game dogs (8) |
| Dr(ive) + Op. (“work”) + PERS(on – “individual with ON loosed”)
Droppers are game dogs who drop to the ground when they spy game. |
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| 16 | HAPLY | It may be hard to administer when one of pair leaves (5) |
| H(ard) + AP(p)PLY (“administer” when one of a pair (of Ps) leaves) | ||
| 17 | THECAL | Article about shortened length of spore-cases (6) |
| THE (“article) + ca. (circa, so “about”) + E (length?) | ||
| 20 | CRAMP | Hamper stuff for Jock must include opener for Merlot (5) |
| CRAP (“stuff” in Scots, ie “for Jock”) must include M(erlot) | ||
| 22 | WHATNOT | Trilby maybe seen in town, oddly nondescript thing (7) |
| HAT (“trilby maybe”) seen in *(town) | ||
| 26 | SOWPIASTREENS | See preamble (13) |
| SOWENS (dessert) / PIASTRE (coin) | ||
| 28 | PIRATIC | Buccaneering renegade I spotted in photo (7) |
| RAT (“renegeade”) + I spotted in PIC (“photo”) | ||
| 29 | MODUS | Working in university with Oxford exam coming round (5) |
| U(niversity) with MODS (“Oxford exams”) coming round | ||
| 31 | TINAJA | A doorman before going off knocked back jar of wine (6) |
| A JANIT(or) (“a doorman”, knocked back, with OR (“before” going off)) | ||
| 33 | ILIAD | Independent parliament recalled for confrontational epic (5) |
| I(ndependent) + <=DAIL (lower house of the “parliament” of Ireland, recalled) | ||
| 35 | BRASILIA | Capital alibi contrived to protect prince (8) |
| *(alibi) to protect RAS (“prince”) | ||
| 37 | SPOSOUNGE | Posse disturbed about old gun going off (9) |
| *(posse) about O +*(gun)
SPONGE – dessert / SOU – coin |
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| 38 | FIAT | Sanction appropriate when imprisoning one (4) |
| FIT (“appropriate”) imprisoning A (“one”) | ||
| 39 | DETER | Prevent condition with removal of mine (5) |
| DETER(mine) (“condition”) | ||
| 40 | TONNELL | Royal favourite in pursuit of fashion? Old bore (7) |
| NELL (Gwynn) (“royal favourite”) in pursuit of TON (“fashion”) | ||
| 41 | TAANGELNSY | One wandering glens surrounded by Scottish river (10) |
| AN (“one”) + *(glens) surrounded by TAY (“Scottish river”) | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | PANDOWSEMISDY | Dish to extinguish – dismay when losing a spread (13) |
| PAN (“dish”) + DOWSE (“to extinguish”) + *(dismy)
PANDOWDY – dessert / SEMIS – (old Indian) coin |
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| 2 | OVERSHOT | Red in the face after spells of bowling? Mark often is (8) |
| HOT (“red in the face”) after OVERS (“spells of bowling”) | ||
| 3 | PICOT | Ornamental loop, topic for knitting (5) |
| *(topic) | ||
| 4 | DUFPENIF | Female involved in excellent dessert coming up (8) |
| F(emale) involved in FINE PUD (“excellent dessert”, coming up) | ||
| 5 | ALOE | Love bottled pub drink – it’s bitter (4) |
| O (“love”) bottled by ALE (“pub drink”) | ||
| 6 | VIES | Bids at table formerly showing strength East held (4) |
| VIS (“strength”) with E(ast) held | ||
| 7 | ROTARY | Roundabout in LA or Edinburgh’s noisy, including junction? (6) |
| ROARY (“noisy” in Scots), including T(-junction) | ||
| 8 | STEP | Rung sweethearts up (4) |
| <=PETS (“sweethearts”, up) | ||
| 9 | SHALM | Early instrument producing silence – relief almost (5) |
| SH (“silence”) + ALM(s) (“relief”, almost)
A shalm (or shawm) was an earlier type of oboe. |
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| 10 | ROLYPOSCEATLY | Poorly organized and secretive, clubs dine inside (13) |
| *(poorly) + SLY (“secretive”) with C(lubs) and EAT (“dine”) inside.
ROLY POLY – dessert / SCEAT – silver coin |
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| 18 | COACT | Conservative in dress, perform together (5) |
| C(onservative) in COAT (“dress”) | ||
| 19 | LATIN | Dig has this to be expanding, volatile? (5) |
| (di)LATIN(g)?
Please see the first few comments, which explain where I went wrong. |
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| 21 | ABET | Make good Elizabethan houses (4) |
| Hidden in “ElizABEThan” | ||
| 23 | AWED | One getting married in a state of reverence (4) |
| A (“one”) getting WED (“married”) | ||
| 24 | ARRASENE | Lupin maybe artist’s shown in embroidery fabric (8) |
| ARSENE (“Lupin maybe”) with RA (“artist”) shown in.
Arsene Lupin is a gentleman thief created by author Maurice Leblanc. |
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| 25 | INITIALS | Monogram possibly I found in Latin is requiring translation (8) |
| I found in *(latin is) | ||
| 27 | SUASET | A selection of exquisite sausage rolls (6) |
| Hidden backwards in “exquisiTE SAUSage”
SUET – dessert / AS – coin |
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| 30 | OLPES | Crumpled peplos page scrubbed in Greek vessels (5) |
| *(pelos) (“peplos” wih P(age) scrubbed)
An olpe was a a Greek urn. |
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| 32 | ALIEN | Street accepts this outsider to be outstanding (5) |
| ALIEN accepted by St. (“street”) would be s(ALIEN)t (“outstanding”) | ||
| 34 | IOTA | Palm clutching love letter from abroad (4) |
| ITA (miriti “palm”) clutching O (“love”) | ||
| 35 | BUNA | I’ll serve for rubber, a point up (4) |
| <=A NUB (“a point”, up)
Buna is a kind of artificial rubber. |
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| 36 | AGOG | Work in silver getting one eagerly excited (4) |
| GO (“work”) in Ag (“silver”) | ||
*anagram
19dn is LATIN – diLATINg. 17ac THECAL.
Nick
19 Latin, volatile? Inside Dilating, expanding.
17. A . Thecal?
To clear up 17ac, the definition is ‘of spore-cases’.
Nick
Loonapick, it’s THECAL at 17 across and LATIN at 19 down. I also had THECAE originally and had to use correcting fluid.
LATIN parses as a compound anagram: DIG + LATIN = DILATING (expanding).
Thanks for the explanation of 19dn. Had I noticed that THECAE was wrong, I’d have seen LATIN. D’oh!!
For what it’s worth I had THECAE too. Not that getting it right would have helped. The hidden coins totally defeated me. And the penny hadn’t dropped that puddings actually did mean puddings. I was looking for something much more obscure (and not finding it).