A couple of unsatisfactory parsings.
I’m confident I completed the puzzle, but I’m not so confident of my parsing for TEFT and REVERSE. It wasn’t a difficult puzzle to complete, though, so overall it was a pleasant experience and my occasional recourse to Chambers taught me a few new things (LABRUM, LEVODOPA and SICELIOT were new words to me).
Thanks Azed.
| ACROSS | ||
| 1 | A QUATTR’OCCHI |
Shakespearean nonentity appearing in funny choir act, face to face (12, 2 words, apostrophe)
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| QUAT (insignificant person in Shakespeare, so “Shakespearean nonentity”) appearing in *(choir act) [anag:funny] | ||
| 10 | MUNGO |
Park maybe revealing waste from mill (5)
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| Double definition, the first referring to Mungo Park, the Scottish explorer of West Africa. | ||
| 11 | ALAP |
Section of Indian music, up to date, ageless (4)
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| Á LA P(age) (“up to date”, without AGE (i.e. ageless)
In Indian music, alap is the introductory section of a raga. |
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| 13 | LEVODOPA |
A love, poorly – treat start of Parkinson’s involved? This may help (8)
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| DO (“treat”) + [start of] P(arkinson) involved in *(a love) [anag:poorly] | ||
| 14 | SILAGE |
Animal fodder, green, I left inside (6)
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| I + L (left) inside SAGE (“green”) | ||
| 15 | LUSTS |
Sexual appetites concealed by modest sultans when retiring (5)
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| Hidden backwards in [concealed by…when returning] “modeST SULtans” | ||
| 16 | STUMM |
Buttoned up front of shirt with most of belly showing (5)
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| [front of] S(hirt) with [most of] TUMM(y) | ||
| 17 | TRIACID |
Test mostly followed by investigators having a number of replaceable atoms (7)
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| TRIA(l) (“test”, mostly) followed by CID (Criminal Investigation Department, so “investigators”) | ||
| 18 | PRE-EXIST |
Former partner is in past (briefly), to appear in earlier life (8)
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| EX (“former partner”) + IS in PRET. (preterite, so “past”, briefly) | ||
| 23 | CREOLIST |
Student of W. Indian languages maybe lector guided round island (8)
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| *(lector) [anag:maybe] guided round I (island) | ||
| 25 | INKOSIS |
Traditional clan chiefs: kin organized operating system with lives (7)
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| *(kin) [anag:organized] + OS (operating system) with IS (“lives”) | ||
| 28 | WATER |
Lustre on choice marble when it’s turned round (5)
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| <=(RE (“on”) + TAW (“marble”)) [when it’s turned around] | ||
| 30 | ENEMA |
Cleansing fluid, rarely pleasant when coming from the backside (5)
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| <=(AMENE) (unusual word for “pleasant”, hence “rarely pleasant”) [when coming from the backside] | ||
| 31 | CABRIO |
Convertible getting around with gusto (6)
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| Ca. (circa, so “around”) with BRIO (“gusto”) | ||
| 32 | SICELIOT |
Greek colonist returning works hard round reserve (8)
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| [returning] <=TOILS (“works hard”) around ICE (“reserve”) | ||
| 33 | TEFT |
Dug opening of tunnel behind grass (4)
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| [opening of] T(unnel) behind TEF (a type of Ethiopian “grass”) | ||
| 34 | KUDOS |
Closure of bank, American, about to arrange credit (5)
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| [closure of] (ban)K + US (“American”) about DO (“to arrange”) | ||
| 35 | PRESENTIMENT |
Mind having to open vintage wine, sweet, fearing what’s to come? (12)
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| RESENT (“mind”) having to open PIMENT (“sweet, vintage wine”) | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 2 | QUBIT |
Computer unit let go, occupied by bachelor (5)
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| QUIT (“let go”) occupied by B (bachelor) | ||
| 3 | UNGLUED |
Lung due for operation to get free of adhesion (7)
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| *(lung due) [anag:for operation] | ||
| 4 | AGNAME |
Number involved in a match showing additional designation (6)
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| N (number) involved in A GAME (“match”) | ||
| 5 | TWEET |
Water imbibed by one refusing anything stronger posted message (5)
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| WEE (“water”) imbibed by TT (teetotaller, so “one refusing anything stronger”) | ||
| 6 | REVERSE |
Misfortune to do with former fit (7)
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| RE (“to do with”) + VERSE (former word for “fit”?)
Not sure of my parsing here? |
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| 7 | OVOLI |
Mouldings, old, on first of printed series? (5)
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| O (old) + Vol. 1 (“first of printed series”) | ||
| 8 | CADUAC |
Old windfall, rotter, charlatan peeled (6)
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| CAD (“rotter”) + (q)UAC(k) (“charlatan”, peeled)
Caduac is an old word for a windfall. |
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| 9 | HAPTICS |
Pastiche mostly travestied work of ‘touchy’ scientist (7)
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| *(pastich) [anag:travestied] where PASTICH is PASTICH(e) [mostly] | ||
| 10 | MASSPRIEST |
Secular RC churchman, once, of maximum bulk protecting prince (10)
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| MASSIEST (“maximum bulk”) protecting Pr. (prince) | ||
| 12 | PAS DE TROIS |
Ballet sequences dispose art originally (10, 3 words)
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| *(dispose art) [anag:originally] | ||
| 19 | RUNNIER |
With liquid added I’ll make bean go further? (7)
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| I added to RUNNER (bean) makes RUNNIER (“making liquid go further”?)
Not sure of the definition here, as it’s not quite an &lit. in my opinion. |
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| 20 | IRIDIAN |
Despot maybe in (to him) foreign country describing part of sight (7)
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| IDI (Amin) (“despot”) in IRAN (“to him (Amin) foreign country”) | ||
| 21 | NITRIDE |
Twit given spell on horseback in compound (7)
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| NIT (“twit”) given RIDE (“spell on horseback”) | ||
| 22 | COMETS |
Such as Chiron encountered in Greek island (6)
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| MET (‘encountered”) in COS (“Greek island”) | ||
| 24 | LABRUM |
Singular rubies disguised bra in sort of stack? (6)
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| *(bra) [anag:disguised] in LUM (“sort of stack”)
Labrum are lips, as are “rubies” |
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| 26 | SALSE |
Unusual volcano disfigured half of Lassen Park (5)
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| *(lasse) [anag:disfigured] where LASSE is [half of] LASSE(n Park) | ||
| 27 | SCOOT |
He’s nothing in Caledonia, put briefly (5)
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| O (nothing) in Scot. (Scotland abbreviated, so “Caledonia, put briefly”) | ||
| 29 | EIKON |
Church figure oik vandalized in eastern opening of nave (5)
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| *(oik) [anag:vandalized] in E (eastern) + [opening of] N(ave) |
Thanks loonapick. For 33 I have TEAT – ‘grass’ as in pot.
I believe ‘fit’ is an old word for ‘verse’, as used by Douglas Adams for the HHGTTG episodes? Haven’t checked.
Thanks as ever to Azed.
I had TEAT for Teft, as defined by dug 2 in Chambers, with “tea” as a name for pot/grass plus the T.
I think your parsing of REVERSE is fine, given the definition of fit 3 in Chambers (2016 my version).
I took the definition of RUNNIER as “with liquid added”, and I agree it’s not &lit.
I did wonder about the plural ‘sequences’ in PAS DE TROIS, but the plural of “pas” is also “pas”. 🙂
Agree with TimC about the def. of RUNNIER. I took ‘I will make…go further’ to be a cute way of saying ‘insert I’.
Thanks, Azed and loonapick!
Top faves: ALAP and PRESENTIMENT.
TEAT and REVERSE: Agree with Gonzo and Tim C.
RUNNIER (the line of thinking is the same as that of all of you)
‘With liquid added’ could be the def as Tim C says (‘With liquid’ could as well be the def).
(added) ‘I’ will make RUNNER, go further (last longer/run farther)?
Will A RUNNER go further if she/he is RUNNIER (whimsically)?
Thanks for the blog, not often we get a Q in Azed, I knew QUBIT from quantum computing but it was not in my Chambers93 , nor was LEVODOPA , probably both too modern. L.DOPA was there and is the term usually used so it was easy to get the first letter.
I also thought of TEFT , have seen TEF a few times but could not find TEFT so switched to TEAT.
Enjoyed this one. Thanks to all for clearing up TEAT which I’m now confident is correct. Now for a Competition Azed after an interesting Prize yesterday and a Genius (I’m assuming) tomorrow! At least the Listener was at the easier end of the scale this weekend.
I had TEAT, too.
I first came across fit for verse in Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, which is called An Agony in Eight fits, which I read some years before Hitchhiker. was on the radio.
Agree about TEAT, REVERSE and RUNNIER. Re 32ac, I’d come across the word Sikeliot before, so assumed this was a variant spelling, but it was only given in my C98 as a variant under the K version (not even cross-referenced), so a good job I didn’t need to look it up! LEVODOPA also not in my C98, but the cluing was clear. I liked “singular rubies” as a definition of LABRUM.