A plain Azed that I solved at a steady pace.
I was able to complete all bar the SE corner without resorting to Chambers, so this must have been a fairly straightforward offering. I don’t really have anything to say about the puzzle, except that it was educational as usual and introduced words like ROBURITE and TOUTIE to me.
Thanks, Azed.
| ACROSS | ||
| 1 | UBI SUPRA | I drink in posh bar reconditioned where aforementioned (8, 2 words) |
| I SUP (“drink”) in U (“posh”) *(bar) [anag: reconditioned] | ||
| 7 | KIST | Knight taken round island in a coffin (4) |
| Kt. (knight) taken round Is. (island) | ||
| 10 | ALLEVIATE | One recently has restricted terribly evil temper (9) |
| A (“one”) LATE (“recently”) has restricted *(evil) [anag: terribly] | ||
| 11 | BREGMA | Part of skull in bronze, an ignoramus’s teaser (6) |
| Br. (bronze) + EGMA (“an ignoramus’s teaser”)
Egma = how Costard (a country bumpkin) pronounced “enigma” (“teaser”) in Shakespeare’s Loves Labours Lost. |
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| 12 | DISBAR | End legal career of one framed by devious birds (6) |
| I (one) framed by *(birds) [anag: devious] | ||
| 14 | ROBURITE | Explosive stuff, ire, turbo blasted (8) |
| *(ire turbo) [anag: blasted]
Roburite is an explosive formerly used in mining, made from chlorinated dinitrobenzene oxidized by ammonium nitrate. |
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| 15 | SNOWEYES | Sight protector in the extreme north, and present in the south-east, certainly (8) |
| NOW (“present”) in SE (south-east) + YES (“certainly”)
Snoweyes were a device, made from whale ivory or driftwood, used by Inuits to prevent snow blindness, a kind of primitive snow goggle. |
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| 16 | SCEND | Snouts of sounder can eagerly, no doubt, plunge into trough (5) |
| [snouts of] S(under) C(an) E(eagerly) N(o) D(oubt) | ||
| 17 | CLOMP | Accompanist accepts learner making heavy-footed progress (5) |
| COMP (“accompanist”) accepts L (learner) | ||
| 20 | TOADY | Jenkins making sport with insertion of plug (5) |
| TOY (“sport”) with insertion of AD (“plug” | ||
| 24 | ASSAI | Spear tipped with iron, not silver, quite musical (5) |
| ASS(ag)AI (“spear tripped with iron”) without Ag (no “silver”)
In music notation, assai means “very” or “quite” |
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| 26 | ALKALIES | Sial dispersed with lake bases (8) |
| *(sial lake) [anag: dispersed] | ||
| 28 | PENTLAND | Writer with time takes boy round northern hills (8) |
| PEN (“writer”) with T (time) takes LAD (“boy”) round N (northern) | ||
| 29 | DARTER | Fish died, blood vessel cut short (6) |
| D (died) + ARTER(y) (“blood vessel” cut short) | ||
| 30 | TOUTIE | Lassie’s in a sulk, fitted out with ribbon? (6) |
| OUT fitted with a TIE (“ribbon”)
“Toutie” is a Scots (ie “a lassie’s”) word for “petulant”. |
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| 31 | OVERPRINT | Exceed run of River Po, diverted not shortened (9) |
| *(river po) [anag: diverted] + ‘NT (“not” shortened) | ||
| 32 | NEVE | Feature of upper end of glacier in mountain – Everest? (4) |
| Hidden in “mountaiN EVErest” | ||
| 33 | DEADENER | What’ll make number? Old Bob has two consecutive notes inserted (8) |
| DEANER (“old” word for a “bob” , a shilling) has DE (“two consecutive notes”) inserted | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | UPBRAST | Revolutionary pub art’s taken off with an explosion as before? (7) |
| *(pub arts) [anag: revolutionary]
“Upbrast” is old variant of “upburst” |
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| 2 | BAROCCO | Flamboyant style in court, officer in charge going both ways (7) |
| BAR (“court”) + OC + <=OC (commanding officer, so “officer in charge”, going both ways) | ||
| 3 | ICEBREAKER | Wave following scoop? One deals with embarrassing silence (10) |
| BREAKER (“wave”) following ICE (“scoop” as in ice cream) | ||
| 4 | SAGUIN | Monkey: it’s spotted atop cannon around island (6) |
| SA (sex appeal, or “it”) spotted atop GUN (“cannon”) around I (island)
A saguin is a Small South American monkey. |
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| 5 | PLAINT | Sad song from Italy young person’s penned (6) |
| I (Italy) penned by PLANT (“young person”) | ||
| 6 | REDTOP | It’s typical of tabloids not all bothered to print (6) |
| Hidden in [not all] “botheRED TO Print” | ||
| 7 | KISSEL | Fruity sweet? Cook likes including a bit of sugar (6) |
| *(likes) [anag: cook] including [a bit of] S(sugar)
Kissel is a sort of sweet fruity cold soup served as a dessert in Eastern Europe. |
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| 8 | STADE | Circus was satisfying, according to audience (5) |
| Homophone of [according to audience] STAYED (“was satisfying”) | ||
| 9 | TERAS | HRH’s ‘carbuncle’? His mum entering bore up (5) |
| ER (“HRH’s mum”) entering <=SAT (“bore” up)
A teras is a monstrosity or carbuncle, which is a description HRH Prince Charles has used to describe some modern architecture. |
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| 13 | BRYOSTATIN | Possible cancer treatment initially bought on railway station oddly (10) |
| [initially] B(ought) on RY (railway) *(station) [anag: oddly]
Bryostatins are a group of macrolide lactones from the marine organism Bugula neritina that may play a part in a cure of cancer |
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| 18 | MANNITE | Sweet alcohol girl fed to small child (7) |
| ANN (“girl”) fed to MITE (“small child”) | ||
| 19 | PIGDEER | Wild hog, mixed type, greed rampant (7) |
| PI (“mixed type” cf pie) +*(greed) [anag: rampant] | ||
| 21 | DARTRE | Skin disease face once pitted by it briefly (6) |
| DARRE (old version of DARE (“face” once)) pitted by ‘T (“it” briefly) | ||
| 22 | PIERRE | A Frenchman, often I wander in Peru (6) |
| I ERR (“wander”) in PE (Peru) | ||
| 23 | KENTIA | 1,000 archetypal conceptions represented by a palm tree (6) |
| K (1,000) + ENTIA (“archetypical conceptions”) | ||
| 25 | SALUTE | Message in flags when put up – then stopping (6) |
| <=AS (“when” put up) + LUTE (a waterproof seal, or “stopping”) | ||
| 26 | ADD-ON | Peripheral ring-road Doncaster has installed (5) |
| Hidden in [installed] in “ring-roAD DONcaster” | ||
| 27 | LOAVE | Develop a head start in athletics, breaking duck (5) |
| [start in] A(thletics) breaking LOVE (“duck”) | ||
Ho ho.
Sagoin, sagouin, saguin; sai; saimiri; saki; siamang; simian; simpai.
But I didn’t know a “saturn” was a monkey. It ought to be!
Ta.
Stefan
Looks like whoever is responsible for loading Azed on the Guardian site has overslept again this week. Has anyone found a working link to it?
Aha! They’ve put it up now.
Can’t remember much about solving this now, but I noted that I wasn’t sure of the parsings of 8 and 9, so thanks for that. I can’t remember if I didn’t spot the homophone or just didn’t realised to stay could mean to satisfy.
I didn’t think to look up “carbuncle” in Chambers, where I see that “architectural monstrosity” is one of the meanings. I assume comes from HRH as he was using the word figuratively in the sense of a facial blemish.
Marmite Smuggler @ 1 – sorry, I have fallen foul fo predictive text. Will edit.
In a busy week I never got round to even looking at Azed till Friday but found it a decent solve.
Have always though of a carbuncle as being at the the other end, and very nasty. Was it the Sainsbury extension to the Naational Gallery that HRH was referring to? Must Google.
Anyway it’s nice to have a chat about another of Azed’d delights.Thanks too for the blog and to Marmite Smuggler for the gloss on SAI monkeys.
Thanks loonapick and Azed. I had LEAVE for 27, thinking ‘to form a head of leaves’ which is much the same as the correct answer. And LEVE is Scots for ‘darling’ too.