Nick: Fairly easy AZED this week – albeit with the usual Scottish words nobody has heard of 🙂
Legend to solution comments:
* = anagram.
< = word reversed.
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| 4. | Fool bagging pool – it leads to precursor of law on contract (9) | ||
| ASSUMPSIT | (SUMP in ASS)+IT | ||
| 11. | Bit of old weaponry with which fool historically captures Gascon town (7) | ||
| FAUCHON | AUCH(Gascon town) in FON | ||
| 12. | Squat mass fight in St Quentin? (4) | ||
| RUCK | three definitions RUCK1, RUCK4, one cryptic (St. Quentin=prison, RUCK3) | ||
| 13. | Our lost ex-PM turning fat (4) | ||
| FLAB | [Arthur] BALF(our)< | ||
| 14. | Electronically linked group dispense with line? (6) | ||
| USENET | USE+NET the proper name for the Internet newsgroup system |
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| 15. | Feature of the Alban hills? Lovely fairy seen in open dancing (8) | ||
| PEPERINO | PERI in (OPEN*) | ||
| 17. | It had force of law in old Russia, as replacing shower in republic there? (5) | ||
| UKASE | AS replacing RAIN in UKRAINE | ||
| 19. | Cloudy in e.g. Genoa? The Scots disperse (5) | ||
| SCAIL | C in SAIL(genoa is a type of sail) | ||
| 21. | Daughter, crazy about love with chap, Chinese (10) | ||
| WOMAN-CHILD | WILD around (O+MAN+CH(inese)) | ||
| 22. | E.g. Long John Silver, swilling some bitter (10) | ||
| TIMBER-TOES | (SOME BITTER)* shiver me’ timbers |
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| 24. | Kiwi confined to region but not on inside (5) | ||
| ENZED | ENZ(on)ED pronouncation of the letters ‘NZ’, hence kiwi |
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| 26. | Source of jute substitute, in texture napless (5) | ||
| URENA | hidden: textURE NApless | ||
| 28. | Ordinary soldiers holding pouch for rifles (8) | ||
| RANSACKS | SAC in RANKS | ||
| 30. | Piano song, new: Marble Like China (6) | ||
| PARIAN | P+ARIA+N | ||
| 31. | Glim one consumed in manse’s kitchen? (4) | ||
| BUAT | A in BUT(scottish kitchen) glim=lantern=buat(see bowat) |
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| 32. | Matter involving pounds, advantageous (4) | ||
| PLUS | L(libra) in PUS | ||
| 33. | One gripped by greed, mistaken as disorder (7) | ||
| DERANGE | AN in (GREED*) | ||
| 34. | Contrariwise, fell younger viburnum (9, 2 words) | ||
| ROSE ELDER | opposite words of FELL and YOUNGER | ||
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| 1. | One causing diversion at Troon maybe, out of touch on the greens? (9) | ||
| OFF-PUTTER | OFF+PUTTER Scottish word hence ‘Troon’ and the pun on golf |
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| 2. | Valley for river, Dee, leading to ploughed lea (4) | ||
| DALE | D+(LEA*) | ||
| 3. | Native American? His woman losing son initially hugs father (6) | ||
| QUAPAW | PA in (s)QUAW | ||
| 5. | Poet’s bright extract from verses he recited (5) | ||
| SHERE | hidden: verseS HE REcited Spenserian word=sheer |
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| 6. | Hermit toils laboriously, following heretical doctrine (10) | ||
| SOLITARIAN | (TOILS*)+ARIAN | ||
| 7. | Girl admits love for chef’s pastes (5) | ||
| MISOS | O in MISS | ||
| 8. | After wild caper the woman’s requiring one to deliver homily (8) | ||
| PREACHER | (CAPER*)+HER | ||
| 9. | Antelope: South African may show chart of a – – migrating (4) | ||
| SUNI | composite anagram: remove the letters of ‘CHART OF A’ from ‘SOUTH AFRICAN’ leaves (SUIN)* | ||
| 10. | I get cold round end of piste on which toboggans run (7, 2 words) | ||
| ICE HILL | I+CHILL around (pist)E | ||
| 14. | Accidental marriage, loveless – cared for thereafter (10) | ||
| UNINTENDED | UNI(o)N+TENDED | ||
| 16. | Art models posed for piece of great art once (9, 2 words) | ||
| OLD MASTER | (ART MODELS)* | ||
| 18. | Detox? Amen – stand up for it (8) | ||
| SOBERISE | SOBEIT with RISE replacing IT | ||
| 20. | Gypsy element dominating salon’s centrepiece (7) | ||
| ZINCALO | ZINC+(sALOn) | ||
| 23. | Dunces playing all on the same side (6) | ||
| SECUND | (DUNCES)* | ||
| 25. | Infatuation after date was compelling of old (5) | ||
| DRAVE | D+RAVE old past tense of drive |
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| 26. | Doubtful number having come out? Lost interest (5) | ||
| USURE | U(n)SURE | ||
| 27. | It roamed the plains of Europe- or primitive America? (4) | ||
| URUS | the prefix UR- (primitive)+US ancient wild ox of Europe (see AUROCHS) |
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| 29. | Caught by hawk, a guileless ground-dwelling bird (4) | ||
| KAGU | hidden: hawK A GUileless | ||
In 12 across St Quentin should really be San Quentin. Saint Quentin is a French town.
Thanks David, I never noticed that when doing it, maybe as ‘Quentin’ immediately reminded me of the prison – but ‘san’ is Spanish for ‘saint’…
Nick
Whit, huv ye no heard o a wee but and ben? (from the song A Wee doch-an-doris). We dont all live in Oxford you know!
From a ‘nobody’.
I know “san” is the Spanish for “saint” but nobody would write St Francis for San Francisco, would they?
David, I agree with you here. ‘San’ iso ‘St’ would have made more sense – but, hey, this is AZED – solvability is not the issue! (There goes my alternative clue entries)