Azed 2150/standard fare

Sitting on the dock by the bay as we speak.  But in Seattle waiting for a flight to the San Juans.  Where I will have no internet access.  Fairly easy standard fare from the master.  No quibbles.  Fortunately had my iPad Chambers app handy.  Without which I’d be rather at sea

Across

1 FOUETTE – (feet out)*

6 LASER – hidden reverse: laserwort is frankincense.

10 FOR(TAL[l],I)CE – “a small outwork of a fortification”

11 REABAT(OE)S – OE in breast*. ruffs or stiff collars.

13 B,RED

14 PASH,TO – pash=abbrev(passionate)

15 STANDIN,GROOM — only. haha

17 TAPS – campfire song for Girl Guides and of course lights out in the army.

20 ONCE – pretty sure this is a Spanish company (i.e. really from Madrid) ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONCE.  Yikes I over-thought this — thanks Andrew — it’s just ONCE=eleven in Spanish (the size of the Real Madrid team).

21 HECK[led] – “piece of spinning machinery, guiding…” and heckle=comb out.

23 REAM – paper — not sure about wordplay: “Correct corrections in endless mass of paper”.

25 ETHEROMANIAC – (came at heroin)* – into ether I guess as opposed to heroin.

27 C(O)URSE – chase. And curse=Scot’s weary.

29 [j]ESSE – means “being”.  Assuming ref. Jesse James but the wordplay seems to lead to [p]osse.  Help! “James the outlaw heading of posse? Quite the opposite!” Again thanks to Andrew: posse is (Latin) possibility.

31 ELO(GIST)S – gist in rev(sole)

32 [m]U(RANI’S)CUS – roof of mouth=palate. Our queen is a RANI and our slimy fluid is mucus.  Not the most appealing surface meaning.

33 P,O(R)ED – OED is the competition.

34 SKRIE(C)H – a Scots cry.  C in hikers*.

Down

1 FORB[ear] – non-grassy herb.

2 OVER T,HE T,OP

3 UPB*,EAT

4 TO([join]T)ED – so T in TOED=kicked.

5 TROPIST – (sport, it)*

6 LA(SAG)NE – where SAG=spinach.

7 A(LL)S – give one’s alls=try v. hard (like me to solve all the wordplays)

8 SIPHON – this is probably some sort of comp. anag. but not sure how it all fits together yet – SIPHON is indeed a “tube thingy”.  And finally again thanks to Andrew: it’s TI(SIPHON)E – a Greek fury. 

9 REP,OMEN – rev(per=period) and remember the movie?

12 STO(CHAST)IC – chats* in stoic.

16 C(HECK)UP – another different usage of HECK  as a euphemism this time.

18 PERSE,ID – a meteor and perse is a dark blue (and ID is a v. familiar crossword fish)

19 A,R(ML)OCK – ML=abbrev(miles)

22 CH(UK)AR – an Indian partridge but this country=UK.

24 MISSEE – seism*,e[ye].  “to see wrongly”.

26 AUGU[stus],[ma]R[ch]

28 RUN,E – where E=east where the sun rises.

30 ES(T)H – T in he’s* – &lit since someone in Tallinn is an Estonian=ESTH