Nick: Fairly easy Azed this week, 5/10 for me.
This was a tale of two halves, the top half going in very quickly, with the bottom half following at a slower (but still quick) pace.
I have one query at 22ac – I really can’t make out what answer Azed is after here (but it doesn’t matter, really, as the grid entry is the same either way).
| Across | |||
| 1. | Leguminous seed making appearance, one ounce (over) (8) | ||
| GARBANZO | GARB+AN+(OZ<) | ||
| 11. | Peasant communes, half latterly from NW Indian region (4) | ||
| MIRI | (kash)MIRI | ||
| 12. | No longer put on show what’s faltering in value (7) | ||
| UNVAILE | (IN VALUE)* | ||
| 13. | Turning to fun? Show a leg (5) | ||
| GIGOT | (TO GIG)< | ||
| 14. | Nasty injury – scrum eight gutted (6) | ||
| PACKET | PACK+E(igh)T | ||
| 16. | Mum binds one with more holes in? (7) | ||
| MOTHIER | I in MOTHER | ||
| 17. | Taking German, men in oral ploughed Cambridge ‘local’ (10) | ||
| NON-GREMIAL | (G+MEN IN ORAL)* | ||
| 18. | Blend of spices in raita (Marathi) (6) | ||
| TAMARA | hidden: raiTA (MARAthi) | ||
| 21. | Only half a jumper? It can warm sleeper in Beijing (4) | ||
| KANG | KANG(eroo) | ||
| 22. | It expresses a personal view in paper, once cleared (4) | ||
| OP-ED or OPED | the past tense of OPE(poetic ‘OPEN'[clear], see Chambers) is OPED – so I can’t see which part of this clue is doing what to who (i.e. both words are defined, so which is it?) | ||
| 24. | Deaden dengue (shivering)? (6) | ||
| UNEDGE | (DENGUE)* | ||
| 26. | Can Guaraní relocate in part of Central America? (10) | ||
| NICARAGUAN | (CAN GUARANÍ)* | ||
| 28. | Getting top mark in old German, ready for French (7, 3 words) | ||
| À LA MAIN | A[top mark] in ALMAIN | ||
| 31. | Coarse cloth, just over a ton with parasites (6) | ||
| CILICE | CI[101]+LICE | ||
| 32. | Fruit fall heavily, outsides shifting? (5) | ||
| PLUMS | SLUMP transposing the first and last letters | ||
| 33. | What gives you cover for open ground? Something that warms, with hot lining (7) | ||
| HEATHER | H in HEATER | ||
| 34. | Fair girl missing pa? (4) | ||
| MELA | (pa)MELA | ||
| 35. | One entering Rossall mostly distressed for those unplaced (8) | ||
| ALSO-RANS | AN in (ROSSAL(l)*) | ||
| Down | |||
| 1. | What’s Magog in, struggling, tense inside and painful? (12) | ||
| GIGANTOMACHY | (T in (MAGOG IN*))+ACHY &lit | ||
| 2. | Foreign friend in past I’m looking up (5) | ||
| AMIGO | (I’M<) in AGO | ||
| 3. | Tackle to catch good little shark (4) | ||
| RIGG | G in RIG | ||
| 4. | British and Russian woman maybe presenting Aussie bird (6) | ||
| BROLGA | BR+OLGA | ||
| 5. | Food for veggies almost non-existent, cooked meat included (7) | ||
| NUTMEAL | (MEAT*) in NUL(l) | ||
| 6. | What might have stirred hearts of mob about valiant, cheering enthusiastically? (9) | ||
| OVATIONAL | ((m)O(b)+(ab)O(ut)) + VALIANT)* | ||
| 7. | Aromatic root that’s central part in bundle (6) | ||
| PACHAK | (t)HA(t) in PACK | ||
| 8. | Charm: upturned pail covers one (4) | ||
| TIKI | (KIT<)+I | ||
| 9. | Early English brought in what gets highlanders reeling, on the run (7) | ||
| FLEEING | EE in FLING | ||
| 10. | Ignores steep crumbling rock formation (12) | ||
| PETROGENESIS | (IGNORES STEEP)* | ||
| 15. | Plant with edible tuber, worthless? Cunning one cloaks it (9) | ||
| ARRACACHA | (ARCH A) around RACA | ||
| 19. | Suits one required among e.g. eaters (7) | ||
| APPLIES | I in APPLES | ||
| 20. | US club gymnasts? They’re worth a lot in any gallery (7) | ||
| TURNERS | dd | ||
| 23. | Strong cotton, not bright, it ends in hem of grey (6) | ||
| DIMITY | DIM+IT+(gre)Y | ||
| 25. | One propelling barge through tunnel, head down somewhat? Clutch peddler! (6) | ||
| EGGLER | LEGGER with the ‘L’ moved down | ||
| 27. | District magistrate in ME capital (5) | ||
| AMMAN | dd | ||
| 29. | Up-to-date yet ageless part of raga (4) | ||
| ALAP | À LA P(age) | ||
| 30. | Thebes will be worth many a one, united in drama endlessly (4) | ||
| PULA | U in PLA(y) | ||
| … | |||
Very unusual to see Azed make 2 factual inaccuracies in the same clue. In 30Dn, ‘thebes’ is not the plural of thebe (see C), and a pula is worth many a thebe, not vice versa.
22Ac can be read as just a double definition, Nick.
1d
& lit
Thanks Azed for the crossword and Nick for the blog.
6dn: I think this is ((m)O(b) (ab)O(ut) VALIANT)*. I cannot account for the “about” otherwise.
30dn: I agree with Richard@1 on both counts.
I agree with all comments so far. I use Azed’s style of parsing and had 6d as simply ‘anag. inc. o, o’
Thanks all
Quite an easy Azed,I thought.
Last in was 34ac.
I agree that ‘thebes’ is not the plural but I do think that ‘thebe(s) will be worth many a one (pula) could be correct.
ie lots of thebe will be worth many pula.
Forgot to mention 16ac, easy but lovely.
Hi Nick
Thank you for amending the entry for 6dn.