AZED No. 2,171 Plain

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Nick:  Some unusually unusual words this week from Azed,

with several I did not know of – however a lot of these are clued rather easily with clear word play. I had to use Google to confirm the way 18ac works, and 31ac uses a device I can’t remember seeing before.

A rather nice Sunday stroll.

Across
1. Set out in dhow, scrabbling about after a paddle? (7)
WETSHOD (SET*) in (DHOW*)
6. Treasury integral to rich establishments (5)
CHEST hidden: riCH ESTablishments
11. Training exercise, about a month, unreservedly welcomed (10, 2 words)
ROUTE MARCH OUT in (RE+MARCH)
13. Appallingly loveless tough? (4)
THUG T(o)UGH* &lit;
14. A tailless duck, one from transcaucasian region (5)
AZERI i A+ZER(o)+I
15. Many victims, each mangled beside burial place (8)
HECATOMB i (EACH*)+TOMB
strange word – originally meant to “kill a hundred oxen”
16. Declared happy, delirious about 100, a step up (9)
MACARISED MAD around (C+A+RISE)
this word seems to only appear in Chambers
18. Strong, maybe, but nursing onset of pneumonia, and a bit off-colour (4)
ROPY P(neumonia) in ROY (Strong)
I needed Google to confirm this
20. Reservation displayed by monarch required to hold water back (7)
KEEPING KING around (PEE<)
22. It involves rustling (not as in grass heap being shifted) (7)
SPREAGH i (GR(as)S+HEAP)*
24. Keen on horses (PS must be clipped ) (4)
INTO (p)INTO(s)
25. Tempered, hot in form of clay block (9)
CHALYBEAN (H in (CLAY*))+BEAN
29. Vehicle in class of products indicating pre-motorized form of transport (8)
BRANCARD i CAR in BRAND
horse manure, effectively see comment#1 (that’ll teach me
to read too quickly)
30. New West Point cadet in purple beret (5)
PLEBE i hidden: purPLE BEret
31. Interlinked blood vessels lining duct from kidney? (4)
RETE i (u)RETE(r)
an indirect hidden clue
32. As to making change, I range inside legislature (10)
OIREACHTAS i (AS TO*) around (I+REACH)
33. Interesting stone found in river (5)
TASTY ST in TAY
34. Female skirting base deviant, one of yesterday’s men (7)
HAS-BEEN HEN around (BASE*)

Down
1. Bony lump of horse is losing freshness (7)
WITHERS cdd
2. Oscar’s weakness? Bosie (heart lost) a help with hip possibly! (12)
EPHEBOPHILIA i (BO(s)IE+A+HELP+HIP)*
3. Barrow offering fresh veg (5)
TRUCK dd
4. Sheepdog one with whip thrust into old hedge (8)
HUNTAWAY i (UN+TAW) in HAY
5. Natural covering, part of tender maize (5)
DERMA hidden: tenDER MAize
7. Bully, hard on me, endlessly (4)
HAZE H+AZE(d)
8. Enzyme about to be injected into spine wrongly (7)
EREPSIN i RE in (SPINE*)
9. Aid to computer graphic design, e.g. Leonardo or Raphael? (12, 2 words)
SCREEN TURTLE pun on the T.V. show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
this phrase is listed under “turtle” in Chambers
10. One held up by The Ancient Mariner, not a good end to uni! (5)
THIRD quite complicated dd.
Two lines from TAM – ‘It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of
three’ and getting a ‘third’ at university isn’t very good.
12. 3 Scots, tense, surmounting obstacle (5)
TROCK Scottish word for 3dn ‘truck’: T+ROCK
17. Chap nabbed by pilot turning up postponed bills (8)
REMANETS i MAN in (STEER<)
19. Petitions individual but not on restricting e.g. torpedo (7)
PRAYERS RAY in PERS(on)
21. Late salutation that, gone wrong, poem included (7)
GOODE’EN ODE in (GONE*)
23. Grocer jocularly hands round nosh (5)
HEATH HH(hands) around EAT
this is referring to former Prime Minister Edward “grocer” Heath
25. Piquet’s clean sweep? Trophy follows drive in Scotland (5)
CAPOT i CA’+POT
26. Ancient tower, circular thing rising above church (5)
BROCH i (ORB<)+CH
27. Strange Shakespearean term, subject of question about English (5)
CAESE CASE around E
no other way to define this word, I suppose
28. Make good bit of barmbrack to include in meal served up (4)
ABET B(armbrack) in (TEA<)

4 comments on “AZED No. 2,171 Plain”

  2. Thanks Azed for the puzzle and Nick for the blog.

    31ac: I took “lining” to mean that all but the first and last letters of uRETEr were to be used, so would not call this a “hidden” clue.

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