Azed 2722

12 comments on “Azed 2722”

1. 

   Gonzo

   #1 - Sat 24th Aug 24, 23:17

   
   

   Thanks Andrew. I admit I missed the typo. Is the def ‘looked well in’ in 24?
   I thought SOREE was the hardest word.

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   Tim C

   #2 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 00:18

   
   

   Agree about the typo in SENOR, and was equally surprised about the US designation for Slew in WELSH. I’m sure I’ve used it all by life.
   The ‘required’ in SOREE doesn’t seem to do much apart from the surface. I also questioned “concealed” as an anagram indicator in ADI-GRANTH at the time, but it seems OK in the sense of “disguised”.

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   Roz

   #3 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 05:28

   
   

   Thanks for the blog, I have very few annotations unlike last week. MEN is underlined with a ?? I thought it must be a misprint , or something in Spanish which I don’t know.
   TRIENE not in Chambers93 but the wordplay very clear .
   C93 only has UH-HUH meaning yes which is how I think of it. This was in just over a year ago, very similar clue and some discussion.

4. 

   Richard Adams

   #4 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 07:59

   
   

   I have also used SLEW in that sense, The OED says SLEW is “colloquial, originally US” and all the early examples it gives are from the US. The first UK one is from The Listener in 1958

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   Tim C

   #5 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 08:31

   
   

   That’s interesting Richard. The etymology seems to be from the Irish “slaugh” (mid 19th century) (a host, crowd, multitude) so maybe it got exported to the US with Irish migration and then re-exported back to the UK.

6. 

   MunroMaiden

   #6 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 08:51

   
   

   Roz@3: Not something I’ve given much thought to before, but interesting that UH-HUH means yes, while UH-UH means no. Also, the first is usually said with a rising inflection and the second with a falling one.
   PIG’S WHISPER was new to me. An obvious anagram, but I needed a few letters’ help to get it. OLLIE, however, was familiar after the recent Olympics!
   SENOR – apart from the typo, the clue was ambiguous between SENOR and RONES, but the anagram in 1ac (even before solving the rest of it) pointed to an initial S – so I guess that made it fair.

7. 

   Perplexus

   #7 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 11:00

   
   

   As well as the typo in 9d I was rather disconcerted by “headware” in 13a, which is surely not a word and I took to be another typo for “headwear” ( though, very surprisingly, even “headwear”, which I would regard as fairly common usage,
   does not appear in either Chambers or the Shorter OED, so far as I can see).

8. 

   bridgesong

   #8 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 12:24

   
   

   With reference to errors by Azed, see now my post @12 to last week’s blog.

9. 

   Roz

   #9 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 19:34

   
   

   I read it in the paper today, mistakes will happen , at least they have owned up fot this one .

10. 

    TimSee

    #10 - Sun 25th Aug 24, 19:43

    
    

    Quiblet – 25a AS OF is last letter of SOFA to the front, not a reversal of the whole. A common Azed device that always takes me too long to remember.

11. 

    Matthew Newell

    #11 - Sat 31st Aug 24, 21:01

    
    

    Ok – I finished this! A week late – but done. Herry and soree took a few days on and off.

    First azed completed

    And that’s a plain version.!?

    I have last week’s to do now.

12. 

    Roz

    #12 - Sun 1st Sep 24, 06:21

    
    

    Matthew@11 , Azed used to have the answers in the paper 2 weeks later ( it is 3 now ) so it would sometimes take me 2 weeks and not finish. One week for first finish is pretty good.
    Most puzzles are Plain but the standard varies. Azed just needs a lot of practice to get used to the style and a Chambers dictionary .

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