A straightforward Azed that wasn’t too difficult…
… the main difficulty is in explaining some of the parsing. I don’t quite know how to describe the device used by Azed in 8dn and 30ac, and in both cases I’m not 100% certain of what part of the clue is the definition, but I am sure someone will come to my rescue with that.
As is usual in a barred puzzle, a lot of archaic and Scots words appear in the solutions, but for once, the Scots words were once I had heard of. My gran used “gey” all the time, and I remember liquorice being called sugarally when I was a boy (probably giving away my age there!).
I did not know “bingo” for brandy, and I’m not quite sure how I knew that a kylie was a boomerang, although I have to admit I’d find it hard to throw Kylie Minogue away!
Thanks Azed
| ACROSS | ||
| 1 | PADISHAH | Great king imprisoning a fair lady within fort (8) |
| A DISH (“a fair lady”) within PAH (Maori “fort”)
Padishah was a title of the Shah of Persia, the Sultan of Turkey, the Great Mogul or the British Emperor of India |
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| 7 | GRUM | After gallons strong drink makes you morose (4) |
| G (gallons) + RUM (“strong drink”) | ||
| 11 | BOOMERANG | Kylie Minogue’s No. 1 follows hostile reception, then terrible anger (9) |
| M(inogue’s) [No 1] follows BOO (“hostile reception”) then *(anger) | ||
| 12 | SPROUT | Child getting end of finger stuck in nozzle (6) |
| [end of] (finge)R stuck in SPOUT (“nozzle”) | ||
| 13 | BRANDY | Bingo making bishop lustful (6) |
| B (bishop) + RANDY (“lustful”)
According to Chambers, bingo is a familiar name for brandy (new one on me, but then I’m TT) |
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| 14 | SPAWL | Old slaver that is off isle with hand on board (5) |
| (i)SL(e) (i.e. (“that is”) off ISLE) with PAW (“hand”) on board
Spawl is an archaic term for spittle or saliva, so “old slaver” |
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| 16 | DEDICATORY | Votive deity card distributed, filled with love (10) |
| *(deity card) filled with O (“love”) | ||
| 17 | ROON | Song for audience, ‘A wee strip o’ plaid’? (4) |
| Homophone of RUNE (“song”) indicated by for audience
A roon is a thin strip of cloth in Scots. |
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| 18 | BUMMLE | Bagpiper’s drone maybe causing irritated mumble (6) |
| *(mumble)
Bummle is the Scottish (hence “bagpiper’s”) variant of bumble, which means “to make a buzzing sound” or “to drone” |
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| 20 | SPRONG | Child clutching end of train leapt once (6) |
| SPROG (“child”) clutching [end of] (trai)N
Sprong is an archaic way of saying sprung, hence “once” in the clue. |
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| 22 | DREG | Scrap leaving highland regiment much depleted on both wings (4) |
| Hidden in “highlanD REGiment” (much depleted on both sides) | ||
| 24 | BIENSEANCE | Ciné ‘as-been abandoned propriety (10) |
| *(cine as been) | ||
| 28 | FESTA | Continental holiday cheese, seconds consumed (5) |
| FETA (“cheese”) with S (seconds) consumed | ||
| 29 | SQUEAL | In short storm mostly easterly’s beginning to blow (6) |
| In SQUAL(l) (“short storm” mostly) E(asterly’s) [beginning] | ||
| 30 | TUREEN | Flog one that’s cracked? It might have served gruel often (6) |
| If you remove the letters of “flog” from “gruel often” you are left with *(rueten) | ||
| 31 | SUGARALLY | Liquorice for laddie to spoil, taking in a paper round (9) |
| SULLY (“to spoil”) taking in <=A RAG (“paper” round)
Sugarally or sugarallie is a Scots word for liquorice, so “liquorice for laddie” |
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| 32 | GEEK | Misfit left out of old card game (4) |
| L (left) out of G(l)EEK (“oild card game”) | ||
| 33 | DRESSAGE | Grades trotting round double bend in equestrian event (8) |
| *(grades) trotting round ES (the letter S or anything shaped like an S, so “double bend”) | ||
| DOWN | ||
| 1 | PASSERS-BY | When appearing in press that’s cast aside, they hardly pause to look (9) |
| AS (“when”) appearing in *(press) + BY (“aside”) | ||
| 2 | DORADO | Marine fish to exhaust with a rod at sea (6) |
| DO (“exhaust”) + *(a rod)
A large marine fish, and, according to this week’s University Challenge, also the Spanish for “swordfish” |
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| 3 | SOULDAN | Old Egyptian ruler, person leading lost tribe (7) |
| SOUL (“person”) leading DAN (one of the ten “lost tribes” of Israel)
A souldan or soldan was an Egyptian sultan. |
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| 4 | HOTTING | Unruly Goth studded with metal, performing illegal stunts (7) |
| *(goth) studded with TIN (“metal”)
Hotting is the practice of performing stunts in stolen cars. |
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| 5 | AMBO | A&M volume that’s all right removed from pulpit (4) |
| A & M + BO(ok) (“all right” removed from “volume”) | ||
| 6 | HERMA | Male entranced by goddess revealing bust (5) |
| M (male) embraced by HERA (greek “goddess”)
A herma is a bust, often with two faces, on a square plinth |
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| 7 | GRAM | Indian village producing chana (4) |
| Double definition, the second referring to two alternative names for the chickpea (gram and chana) | ||
| 8 | RANDOM | So yes, this does for the answer – irregular masonry does (6) |
| If you remove the letters of “so yes” from “masonry does” you are left with *(manrdo) | ||
| 9 | UNDERLETTER | Whom subtenant maybe pays to speak about crooked lender? (11) |
| UTTER (“to speak”) about *(lender) | ||
| 10 | APPROPINQUE | Forward breaks a leg, completely losing it once near (11) |
| PROP (rugby “forward”) breaks A PIN + QU(it)E (“completely” losing IT)
Appropinque is an archaic word meaning “to approach”. |
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| 15 | EYEGLANCE | Quick peek that shows Jock’s great when given lift in cast (9) |
| <=GEY (“great” in Scots, so “Jock’s great” when given lift) in ELANCE (“cast” as in how one would throw a lance) | ||
| 18 | BRATTLE | Unruly kid let off in quarrel (7) |
| BRAT (“unruly kid”) + *(let) | ||
| 19 | URNFULS | Lots of ashes farmers put in two thirds of slurry mixed (7) |
| NFU (National “Farmers” Union) put in *(slur) (being two thirds of slur(ry) | ||
| 21 | REFUGE | Shelter offering unpleasant warmth in place for wintering cattle? (6) |
| FUG (“unwelcome warmth”) in REE (“place for wintering cattle” or sheep in Scotland) | ||
| 23 | RESEDA | A tailless rat, climbing – it’s a greenish colour (6) |
| <=A DESER(t) (“rat” tailless and climbing) | ||
| 25 | SWARD | Lawn is level, but sloping upwards (5) |
| <=DRAWS (“is level” in sport or games, sloping upward) | ||
| 26 | BEAK | Bill for magistrate (4) |
| Double definition | ||
| 27 | ALAR | Stored in phial, a retrogressive chemical, now banned (4) |
| Hidden in [stored in] “phiAL A Retrogressive”
Alar was another name for daminozide, a carcinogenic chemical once used to spray apples. |
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*anagram
Many thanks to both for the weekly ramble through the edges of the dictionary. As always enjoyable with much pondering the width of the language.
I think of the two clues you mention as subtractive anagrams but I am not sure if there is another term.
Oh, and a Kylie is the name for a boomerang in one of the Aboriginal tongues.
Again, thanks Loonapick for your explanations.
Thanks, loonapick. It’s one of Azed’s tics that when the word “this” is in a clue, it’s very often a compound anagram, as in 8d. Chambers gives “irregular masonry” as a meaning for random, so maybe that’s the definition. Still don’t quite see how it works, though.
brian@2: that sort of observation, about ‘this’, is interesting – will store it in the memory.
How much more time and effort Printers’s Delivry takes than the Plain, as has no doubt been observed before… but maybe others are quicker than I am.
Many thanks to loonapick for the annotation. One tiny slip: solution for 32a should be GEEK not Gleek
Thanks, quenbarry – there were a few more typos, which I have now edited out (I hope!)
Thanks loonapick for the parsing of TUREEN – I hadn’t spotted that it was a compound anagram, the ‘one’ there is doing the duty that ‘this’ or ‘such’ more commonly do.
Couple more typos:
In 12 you have ‘anger’ for ‘finger’.
In 1d the ‘cast’ is the anagrind, ‘aside’ is BY.
In 2, first asterisk unintentional?
Thanks, Gonzo. Think I was tired when I typed this up; I always have one typo, but today there were at least 5 or 6…