Azed 2198/this and this and this and thus

I found this quite hard.  Lots of “indirect” clues — where the wordplay requires solving for this.   A good example is 33A.

Across

1 Twangy instrument I am, bass, kept in box?

GU(I’M,B)ARD – a kind of mouth-organ.

7 Widen barrel in making Scotch overflow

REAM – two meanings — the 2nd is Scots “overflow”

10 Spiced sausage: a little bit’s wrapped in mushroom, look

MOR(TAD)EL,LA – morel is a mushroom and la! is lo! is look!

11 Scoff to present to Scots will include wee bit o’ bannock

GI(B)E – Scots give=gie

12 Millions involved in online sales forum, no longer steep

E(M)BAY – we all know about ebay — and embay is obsolete for steep.

14 ‘Spangle’ not first? Reverse of ideal – bad news for stables

[s]EQUIN,IA – rev(AI=ideal) and glanders is bad news for horses.

17 Lass almost dead bitten by dog? Strong support needed

BOX (GIR[l],D)ER – bridge support.

18 Falling for the Bard, study cast in production of act

CA(DEN)T – den=study in act*.  Shak. falling.

20 Guarantee supplied by nurse, second joining old practice

EN,S,URE – I wasted time trying to make an anagram from nurse.  Anyway, EN=Enrolled Nurse and ure=archaic practice.

21 Girl familiarly trapping former farceur in marriage

T(RIX)IE – Difficult for me — I hadn’t heard of the actor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Rix – so had to back my way into the familiar girl

23 Cloudy and close on board, pitches into trough sometimes

S(C,END)S – my last clue — partly because it’s hiding under the headword send in Chambers.  In any event, as a verb: “to pitch into the trough of the sea” sometimes spelt scend! Oh well.  Note the common idiom of “on board” indicating being contained inside of SS.

24 Sheik’s ultimate relation is rolling? Herein lies his wealth  maybe

OIL TAN(K)ER – [shei]K in relation*

27 Once budding twins I’ll have left for good, pocketing millions

GEM(M)ING – another hard clue.  Take gemini=twins, replace last I by G[ood] and insert M=millions for an obsolete word for budding.

29 We’ll get this for delightful gusset?

INSET – yikes! an indirect clue – gusset is the definition (a clothing inset).  So… take “we” and insert it “in set” (this) and get s(we)et=delightful.  I puzzled over this for some time.  Which is what crossword puzzles are for I suppose.  I don’t think Azed does this very often — at least when he does, he tends to italicize his “this’s”

30 Life? Account of one involving queen

B(R)IO – R=rex or regina.

31 What’s the point in rolling gasper’s sharp herbage?

SPEAR G(RAS)S – another tough clue – ras=point (topographically) in (gasper’s)*

32 Front of railcar goes into e.g. caboose, causing damage

HU(R)T – hut is a caboose (in N. Am)

33 State robe – in this is something you hope’ll appreciate

VESTMENT – and another indirect.  Again this not italicized so I struggled (my fault not the setter’s!).  “in this”=”investment” which you hope will make you some money.  Eventually.

 

Down

1 Stake old fruit tree

GAGE – two meanings.

2 As in Rome ruins of Urban II are seen around all over the place

UBI(QUA)RIAN – Latin “as”=QUA in (Urban II) – ubiquitous.

3 Contents of a cloud landing on earth, wet

[n]IMBU[s],E

4 Typical of Edinburgh doctor to keep talking, one breaking tabu

B(RUN,ON,I)AN – tough clue.  Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(doctor) from Edinburgh who claimed disease was a function of excitement.  Yay!

5 A fool’s wrong thus?

A,TWI(X)T – another indirect clue I suppose since the answer is thus showing us where wrong=X should be placed in A TWIT.

6 Plunder silver, crazy about it

RAV(AG)E

7 Some err if misled – this may result

REMORSE – (some err)*

8 River bass swallows wriggling eel? The opposite

EL(B)E – so B in eel* rather than eel* in B.

9 Magistrate’s woman long ago in US state (briefly)

MA(YORE)SS – ref. Massachusetts

13 English denied a drink on fellow, a Scot maybe, miserly

A,BE[e]R,DON,IAN – and I thought that it was all Scots who were proverbially miserly.  E=English is removed from a beer (a drink)

15 Pie filling? Do this for team, say

MINCE MEAT – and yet another indirect.  “do this”=”do mince meat” which produces “team”.

16 Hit ‘gobsmacked’ with Oscar, luvvie-style

ACTORISH – (hit, oscar)*

19 Making copy of old transactions leave rings

EX(TR)EAT – extraction for Spenser thus old and to extract is to “copy passages “.  Exeat=”formal leave of absence” and TR=abbrev(transactions).

22 English part of history book

ENG,AGE

23 Scats smell awful when hauled up on board

S(KEER)S – “on board” idiom again, so rev(reek) in SS and means scares=scats.

25 Early part of Jock’s beard beginning to rustle in the wind

B(R)ISE – R in bise=wind.  And BRISE=Scots bristle (so the state of a nascent hipsterish beard).

26 Legal right, established over time, because realistic in part

USER – “right establish by long use (law)”.  And hidden in “because realistic”.

28 Butter to attack vigorously

GO,AT