Nick; Fairly difficult Azed this week.
Also it didn’t help with the typo at 29dn which caused me a bit of head scratching for a while.
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| 1. | Upper crust gathering accompanied by big-band jazz (8) | ||
| BEESWING i | BEE+SWING | ||
| 7. | Bones when in this condition must be retrorse (4) | ||
| OSSA i | ‘AS SO'< | ||
| 10. | E.g. moccasins I adore – I loathe going out in old pair (10) | ||
| OPHIOLATER | (I LOATHE*) in O+PR a snake lover – moccasins here is the N.Amer. pit-viper |
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| 11. | Weapon without charge, with no support for member (7) | ||
| FREEARM | pun: FREE ARM | ||
| 13. | Pro bottling left in what adds to sherry’s flavour (4) | ||
| FLOR | L in FOR | ||
| 14. | I’m backing king about new legal code (7) | ||
| MISHNAH i | (I’M<)+(SHAH around N) | ||
| 15. | Rains etc will be wasted without a water storage device (7) | ||
| CISTERN | (R(a)INS ETC)* | ||
| 16. | Part of opera: you’ll see I hum its — haltingly for the musicians (5) | ||
| SCENA | composite anagram: THE MUSICIANS minus I HUM ITS = (ESCAN)* | ||
| 17. | Antelope, female ruminant devouring bits of coarse hay beside lake (6) | ||
| LECHWE i | (C(oarse) H(ay) in EWE) all after L | ||
| 22. | Foreign money from Norway wrapped in folded sash? (6) | ||
| FRANCS | N in (SCARF<) | ||
| 23. | Compulsive boozer ducks round (5) | ||
| DIPSO | DIPS+O | ||
| 24. | Sweaty place, creating pong, one gone round by mother (7) | ||
| HUMMAUM i | HUM+(MUM around A) a turkish bath, no less |
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| 26. | More than half tipsy, Aussie fool, backward sucker? (7) | ||
| PSYLLID i | (ti)PSY+(DILL<) | ||
| 28. | Scottish cairn you’ll get to from top thus (4) | ||
| BARP i | pun: TOP=TO ‘BAR P’ | ||
| 30. | Lichen cells active after application of indigo (7) | ||
| GONIDIA i | (INDIGO*)+A | ||
| 31. | Queer male in drag? It helps to ascertain bed’s contours! (10) | ||
| LEAD-ARMING | (MALE IN DRAG)* | ||
| 32. | Advertising’s not so bad for you, one’s learned rate-free (4) | ||
| LITE | LITE(rate) | ||
| 33. | Casse Noisette? It’s devoured by herds in e.g. Mexico (8) | ||
| TEOSINTE i | (NOISETTE)* | ||
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| 1. | Mishit once, reverse of t-triff (4) | ||
| BAFF | pun: T-TRIFF = F-FAB reversed | ||
| 2. | Bring forward noble flowers mostly round end of June (10) | ||
| EARLIERISE | EARL+(IRISE(s) around (jun)E) strange word |
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| 3. | Old battle-axe? The woman’s saucy inside (7) | ||
| SPERTHE i | PERT in SHE | ||
| 4. | House for Maoris won over race (5) | ||
| WHARE i | W+HARE | ||
| 5. | Clan names? One I’m assigned to is coming up (6) | ||
| NOMINA | (I’M in ANON)< | ||
| 6. | Commentator covering bad result in Germany (7) | ||
| GLOSSER | LOSS in GER | ||
| 7. | Part of credo, a theological appeal to heaven (4) | ||
| OATH | hidden: credO, A THeological | ||
| 8. | Rocky‘s skin lotion kept in tin (8) | ||
| STONERN | TONER in SN | ||
| 9. | Tea’s limited in power, what you’d expect from a real oldie (8) | ||
| ARCHAISM | (CHA IS) in ARM | ||
| 12. | One caring for e.g. nails, crazy over more than half of rustiness dealt with (10) | ||
| MANICURIST | MANIC+(RUSTI(ness)*) | ||
| 15. | Dolt? Class rejecting one’s messy dollop (8) | ||
| CLODPOLL | CL(ass, rejecting a fool)+(DOLLOP*) | ||
| 18. | Pacy wriggling in bed – purr maybe imitated? (7) | ||
| COPYCAT | (PACY*) in COT | ||
| 19. | Virginia perhaps aiming for something in the ointment? (7) | ||
| WOOLFAT | virginia WOOLF+AT | ||
| 20. | Children admitted being bitten by favourite deer? (7) | ||
| BAMBINI | IN in BAMBI | ||
| 21. | Hosted by such, I greet parasite getting under one’s skin (6) | ||
| CHIGRE i | hidden: suCH, I GREet | ||
| 25. | Sort of cuckoo found in Mississippi: it eats ants (5) | ||
| MANIS i | ANI in MS | ||
| 27. | Bottom of thick overcoat disappearing in open ditch (4) | ||
| LODE | LODE(n) | ||
| 29. | Quarry group of workment approach from below (4) | ||
| PANE | hidden reverse: workmEN APproach alas, the typo introducing the extra ‘T’ destroys this clue – luckily it isn’t a word which helped me sort it out |
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Yes, I have been unable to complete the last two puzzles. They seem to have been tougher than usual in my opinion.