Azed 2256

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On my scale of “how much did I finish while and shortly after eating my breakfast?” I think this one came in as medium-strength. A good selection of unfamiliar words, but even these are often guessable through helpful clueing and resemblance to more familiar ones. Thanks as ever to Azed.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Across
1. CLATCH Scottish slut left when there’s desirable marriage partner around … (6)
L in CATCH
6. SOWANS … And susceptible to such flummery, giving very weak answer? (6)
SO W[eak] ANS – also spelt “sowens”, meaning flummery”, metaphorically (I assume) from “a dish made from the fine meal remaining among the husks of oats”. Flummery, i.e. empty compliments etc, also has a similar meaning). A Scots word, hence the link with the previous clue
10. AGORAPHOBE Indoor type since attached to cooking area in part of Sussex (10)
AGO (since) + HOB in RAPE (division of Sussex)
11. SYBOE Scallion creating offensive smell in sieve (5)
B.O. (Body Odour – offensive smell) in SYE (a sieve)
12. QUOTA Set number worked out in question and answer (5)
OUT* in Q+A
14. HORN-NUT Common feature of Chinese meal, hot urn simmering around noon? (7)
N in (HOT URN)* – another name for the water chestnut, often found in Chinese dishes
15. UNIAT Christian community with certain freedoms – switch its parts to get up? (5)
If you switch the parts of UNIAT you get AT UNI[versity], or “up”
17. HADDIE Scottish fisherman’s catch experienced end (6)
HAD + DIE – Scots form of haddock
18. WINE CASK It may contain a sec, bottled in a jiffy (8, 2 words)
A SEC* in WINK
22. INTUBATE Dined after having a bath? Treat with pipe (8)
IN TUB (having a bath) + ATE
24. POLYPS Old cuttlefish, sloppy when dismembered (6)
SLOPPY*
28. PLING Shriek creating waves – rip off (5)
RIPPLING (creating waves) less RIP
29. TWINSET Accompaniment for pearls? Swine, confused, ejects centre of that (7)
SWINE* replacing the middle two letters of THAT
30. LANAI Extension to dwelling, part of Italian albergo seen from the rear (5)
Hidden in reverse of italIAN ALbergo– this extension (a living area built on the side of a house) is Hawaiian
31. TISRI Early autumn in Tel Aviv – I scratch back, having caught sun (5)
S in reverse if I RIT – a month of the Jewish calendar occuring in September or October (14 Sep – 13 Oct in 2015)
32. PEG-TANKARD From which fellows drank, drank freely after e.g. tap flows (10)
(EG TAP)* + DRANK* – a tankard marked to show equal shares, so drunk from by a number of fellow-drinkers
33. SEDENT Study in group seated (6)
DEN in SET
34. GASBAG Who’ll cause chatter to falter? Reverse of that (6)
Reverse of GAB SAG, &lit
Down
1. CASHEW APPLES To display application in scale, arranged ‘edible nut stalks‘ (12, 2 words)
SHEW APP in SCALE* – the stalks of the cashew, used as food as well as the nuts
2. LAY ON Provide area in French city (5, 2 words)
A in LYON
3. TOONIE Two-dollar coin, along with one I pocketed (6)
TO (along with) + I in ONE – nickname of the Canadian $2 coin, by analogy with the $1 Loonie
4. CRENA Tooth from shellfish, front part at the bottom (5)
NACRE with its “front part” moved down. Crena, meaning a notch or tooth, is perhaps better known from compounds such as “crenulation”
5. HANUMAN Monkey, one caught by higher creature (7)
AN in HUMAN
6. SPATH Southern footway leads to this Staffs village (5)
S + PATH
7. WOUNDY Welsh of old in waves going over the top (6)
W + OUNDY (obs. “wavy”, e.g. in heraldry). It’s an archaic word meaning “excessively”, so “going over the top”.
8. ABOIDEAU Watergate, mostly to do with concealing plan (8)
IDEA in ABOU[T]
9. STATEMENTING Caught in police trap, worried blokes getting time – it indicates special needs (12)
ATE MEN “caught in” STING – legal;/educational jargon for providing a legal obligation for special needs provision for a child
13. TAINT Nasty colour? One should be in shade (5)
A in TINT
16. INCLINED Oblique, or prone (7)
Double definition
19. IDOLA Logical fallacies laid out round heart of theorem (5)
[the]O[rem] in LAID*
20. STOWING Chant captivates lug in this arrangement? (7)
TOW (to lug) in SING
21. LYNAGE Plague interrupting side-branch in poet’s ancestry (6)
NAG in LYE (side-branch of a railway)
23. BANIAS Merchants, bent, taking one in (6)
AN in BIAS
25. STOAT Ingredient of antipasto attracting carnivore (5)
Hidden in antipaSTO ATtracting
26. SITKA It’s in Alaska, not Alabama (5)
IT in ALASKA less ALA, &lit – Sitka is a city in Alaska, which gives its name to the Sitka spruce, much used in commercial forestry
27. ZERDA Foxy creature, me, devious, circling runs (5)
R in AZED* – technically an indirect anagram, but I suppose an excusable one

3 comments on “Azed 2256”

  1. Yes, two successful AZED solves in a row for me. STATEMENTING was one of my early ones in- we had to go through all that a few years ago.
    Now, how to get into today’s ‘Special’? Better have a look at the AZED slip I suppose

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