[If you’re attending York S&B please see comments 32&33] - here
My first Azed puzzle as a regular blogger entailing a very enjoyable trawl though Chambers. The great thing about blogging an Azed puzzle is that it gives me the perfect excuse to spend the afternoon reading the dictionary without attracting unwelcome comments about ‘needing to get a life’ etc. Thank you Azed.
| Across | ||
| 1 | BUPRESTIS | Beetles rising, according to poet, twice on wings (9) |
| UPREST (uprist=rising, spelling by Shelly) in BIS (twice) – a genus of beetles | ||
| 10 | LANAI | Institute added to a Turner annexe (5) |
| I (institute) added to LANA Turner (actress) – a Hawaiian annexe to a house | ||
| 12 | PANDURA | Cake, sort of millet, speciality of Naples (7) |
| PAN (cake, with mud) DURA (sort of millet) – a Neapolitan musical instrument | ||
| 13 | IRISH CAR | Buggy I start to race, then I crash badly (8, 2 words) |
| I R (start of race) then I CRASH* anagram=badly – a horse-drawn buggy | ||
| 14 | TAUBE | One’s encapsulated by ‘crate‘ (5) |
| A (one) in a TUBE (encapsulated) – a WWI German monoplane | ||
| 15 | HICK | Rustic installation for chic kitchen (4) |
| found inside cHIC Kitchen | ||
| 16 | MIGNONETTE | Lace? See good chamber group clad in very small amount (10) |
| G (good) NONET (chamber group) inside (clad in) MITE (very small amount) – a kind of fine lace | ||
| 18 | COAL | One in grip of depression, nuts maybe (4) |
| A (one) inside COL (depression) – a grade of house coal | ||
| 20 | VIDEOS | Records? Swinging dive has nothing special (6) |
| DIVE* anagram=swinging has O (nothing) S (special) | ||
| 22 | KLUDGE | Makeshift device lord used to plug damaged keg (6) |
| LUD (lord, used to address a judge) in KEG* anagram=damaged | ||
| 24 | WART | So-and-so won trick (4) |
| W (won) ART (trick) | ||
| 26 | BUNDESRATH | Death- burns disfigured Reichstag’s ‘other place’? (10) |
| (DEATH BURNS)* anagram=disfigured – the main German legislative body, meeting in the Reichstag building. Equivalent of the House of Commons in the UK, which is referred to as the ‘other place’ by |
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| 28 | ITCH | What’s dhobi connected with? Clothing’s long involved with one (4) |
| an anagram of LONG ITCH gives CLOTHING – dhobi is connected with ITCH to get ‘dhobi itch’, tropical dermatitis | ||
| 30 | PROEM | Earliest bit of Elgar in concert overture? (5) |
| E (earliest bit of Elgar) in PROM (concert) | ||
| 31 | SHAMANIC | Amateur one is taken in by such Scottish magic? (8) |
| HAM (amateur) AN (one) inside (taken in by) SIC (such, Scottish) | ||
| 32 | POROSIS | Healing of fracture? Love coming in for baby (7) |
| O (love) inside (coming in) PRO (for) SIS (baby) – the knitting together of broken bones | ||
| 33 | MISDO | Make a mess of paste for flavouring – little density in it (5) |
| D (density, abbrev) in MISO (paste for flavouring) | ||
| 34 | UTTERLESS | Last one dismissed, test result’s awful beyond words (9) |
| (TEST RESULt) anagram=awful missing last letter | ||
| Down | ||
| 1 | BLUTACK | Temporary adhesive as of old restricted by ban (7) |
| UT (as, of old=Latin) in (restricted by) BLACK (ban) | ||
| 2 | PNEUMA | Muddled up with name for spirit (6) |
| anagram (muddled) of UP with NAME – the life spirit | ||
| 3 | RABBI | Doctor of law, mostly one offering little opposition in a court? (5) |
| RABBIt (one offering little opposition, on a tennis court say) mostly=unfinished – a doctor of scripture (law) | ||
| 4 | SPRINGERS | Gins: press drunkenly imbibing one of them in cocktail (8) |
| PRESS* anagram=drunkenly contains (imbibes) GIN* (one of them) anagram=in a cocktail – a gin is a trap, something that springs | ||
| 5 | TAIG | Catholic (label with a dash of inimicality in it) (4) |
| TAG (label) containing I (a dash, first letter, of inimicality) – offensive slang for a Catholic | ||
| 6 | INSANIE | Folie as some have suggested making one oddly asinine (7) |
| ASININE* anagram=oddly – Shakespearean form (as some have suggested) of infamie, folie or madness | ||
| 7 | LUCITE | Everything inside handbag, inverted, is plastic (6) |
| interior letters of (everything inside) rETICULe (handbag) is reversed (inverted) – a plastic used as artificial glass | ||
| 8 | TRACTOR FEED | Turkey? Cast member being paid for what’ll ensure production through press (11, 2 words) |
| TR (Turkey) ACTOR (cast member) FEED (being paid) – a paper roller in a typewriter | ||
| 9 | JARK | After conflict king’s given safe-conduct pass no longer (4) |
| K (king) after JAR (conflict) – a safe conduct (old slang) | ||
| 11 | ANACOLUTHON | Solecism of a kind? Oh, nounal ‘act’ misused (11) |
| (OH NOUNAL ACT)* anagram=misused – a grammatical misconstruction where the latter part of a sentence, the beginning does not match the end. | ||
| 17 | OVERWISE | Love poem, weak one penned? Typical of clever clogs (8) |
| O (love) VERSE (poem) contains (pens) W (weak) I (one) | ||
| 19 | AGELAST | To stay young longest, nothing’s a laughing matter for me (7) |
| AGE LAST (stay young longest) – a person who never laughs | ||
| 21 | STAMNOS | Jar man drunk – more than one drunk up round (7) |
| SOTS (more than one drunk) contains (round) MAN* anagram=drunk – an ancient Greek short-necked jar | ||
| 23 | UNCART | To detach trailer from damaged nut rings driving club up (6) |
| NUT* anagram=damaged contains (rings) RAC (Royal Automobile Club, club for drivers | ||
| 25 | AHORSE | Husky, third moved to head once ready to ride (6) |
| HOARSE (husky) third letter moved to the top (head) | ||
| 27 | TRAIL | Be behind in quiz (5) |
| double definition | ||
| 28 | ISPY | Wordgame, slight, lacking weight from the start (4) |
| wISPY (slight )lacking W=weight at the start | ||
| 29 | KNIT | Housewife maybe accepting new contract (4) |
| KIT (housewife maybe, a sewing kit) contains (accepts) N (new) | ||
*anagram
definitions are underlined
Got it all correct, but didn’t understand how 6 worked, so many thanks for that. It felt quite a tough one by Azed standards.
I can’t really comment on the level of difficulty as I don’t do enough of the ‘barred’ puzzles to make a comparison. My usual view on these is that if I can complete them then they can’t be that difficult.
>>Equivalent of the House of Commons in the UK, which is referred to as the ‘other place’ by MPs in the House of Lords.
There are no MPs in the House of Lords (not allowed).
Both houses refer to the other as ‘the other place’, or, more often, as ‘another place’.
Quite so, they are not members of Parliament.