Azed 2441

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I’m afraid left too long between solving the puzzle and writing the blog to remember how I found it at the time (and didn’t make any notes). I think it probably counts as medium difficulty, with a couple of clues where the parsing took a while to work out. Thanks to Azed

 
 
 
 
 
 
Across
1. A-BOMB American guy requiring doctor – it’s potentially devastating (5)
A + BO + M.B.
6. PANGAMY Goatish character, spirited – and what he advocates? (7)
PAN (god of nature, depicted with the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat) + GAMY. Pangamy is “random mating”, as Pan might advocate
11. FREE-REED Pair of sandpipers sheltered by edges of fjord like some wind? (8)
REE twice in F[jor]D – the “wind” refers to woodwind instuments
13. TESTICARDINES Some brachiopods? Try one coach is eating (13)
TEST + I + CAR + DINES
15. CREATORS They form distribution for car store (8)
(CAR STORE)*
16. RECUSE Withdraw from judging playground practice (6)
REC (recreation ground) + USE (practice)
17. TSETSE Cause of disease in cattle? Tribe has groups replacing bone (6)
TRIBE with SETS replacing RIB
21. DEE See’s neighbour in endless legal transaction (3)
C (see) and D (dee) are adjacent letters in the alphabet
23. REHEAT Device for increasing thrust blasting the ear (6)
(THE EAR)* – as a noun, reheat is “a device to inject fuel … to obtain increased thrust”
24. PANTOS Christmas entertainment, dancing not included in action (6)
NOT* in PAS
25. ANASARCA Type of dropsy, one of the nose mostly, secreting sort of discharge (8)
ARC (electrical discharge) in A NASA[L]
29. SERVICE CHARGE Strong stuff, including immorality with daily? It’ll go on the bill! (13, 2 words)
VICE + CHAR in SERGE (strong material)
30. INTEGRIN I entwined net with snare – it aids adhesion of a kind (8)
I + NET* + GRIN (a snare)
31. CONNECT Hit the target – none adrift in 200 by tourney’s leader (7)
NONE* in CC (200) + T[ourney]
32. DONET Refrain about English grammar (5)
E in DON’T – “a grammar, a primer”
Down
1. AFTERGRASS Growth following shocking time? Seeking drug (10)
AFTER (seeking) GRASS (drug). Aftergrass is grass that grows after mowing or reaping, and to shock is to set (hay etc) in stooks or sheaves
2. BREVETÉ Patented screen held in stock in Scotland (7)
VET (to screen) in BETE
3. METE Boundary in home test (4)
Hidden in hoME TEst. Mete is a boundary or limit – not related to the word in “mete out”
4. BRITSKA Carriage, former railway one, task for restoration (7)
BR + I + TASK*
5. RECCED Was scouting in decline mostly round college? (6)
C in RECED[E]
6. PEARLESCENT Peer over shimmering scene, in part lustrous (11)
EARL + SCENE* in PT
7. NADA Tennis star’s losing heart in Wimbledon – his lowest score? (4)
[Rafael] NADAL less the middle letter of wimbLedon
8. GAITER Legging it in frantic rage (6)
IT in RAGE*
9. ANNOTATOR Literary editor, one turning up I dispensed with (9)
AN + reverse of ROTATION (turning) less I
10. MEER Muslim bigwig always following leader in mosque (4)
M[osque] + E’ER
12. ASSESSMENT Tax due? Mess sorted out in compliance (10)
MESS* in ASSENT
14. SACCHARIN It sweetens bag with tea in (9)
SAC + CHAR IN
18. SMASHED What’s written up on an outhouse in ruins (7)
Reverse of A MS (manuscript) + SHED
19. SHOOGIE I turn up in footwear for highland fling? (7)
Reverse of I GO in SHOE
20. HESVAN Wandering about shaven for a month in the synagogue? (6)
SHAVEN* – a month in the Jewish calendar
22. EPACTS Stone ras erected showing calendar differences (6)
Reverse of ST + CAPE
26. NERO Notorious fiddler caught in headline robbery (4)
Hidden in headliNE RObbery – Nero supposedly “fiddled as Rome burned”; though he probably didn’t, and anyway fiddles weren’t invented until hundreds of years later
27. AÎNÉ Monsieur’s abandoned state, being plus agé? (4)
MAINE less M
28. KAGO What’ll make jackdaw turn out litter? (4)
KA (jackdaw) + GO (turn out)

6 comments on “Azed 2441”

  4. I, too, couldn’t parse 28dn, so thanks everybody.  Couldn’t parse9dn and 30ac either.  A grin is a snare?  I didn’t know that.

    2442 is in my copy of the paper.  Just looked at it before starting breakfast.

  5. Bob Sharkey is not alone. Some of us can’t pop out to a newsagent 10,000 miles away.

    The Guardian almost pleads with me to contribute or subscribe. Yet they inflict on me withdrawal symptoms probably more comparable with a 1950s BBC period drama set in some “institution”.

    Stefan

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