AZED 2,300/mishmash

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Surprisingly easy — managed most of the puzzle while watching a replay of Germany/Italy.  Probably had to make more trips to the chamberpot than to Chambers. Obviously I was distracted since more than a few sloppy parses pointed out by kind commentators!

completed grid
Across
1 CHILDCROWING Youth triumphant, causing nervous affection of the larynx (12)
CHILD=youth,CROWING=triumphant
9 HUTU African imprisoned, denied special surrounding (4)
[s]HUTU[p] – sp=abbrev(special).  The bad guys in the Rwandan massacre.
10 RAUN Caviar for Walter, a filling course? (4)
R(A)UN – Scots (thus ref. Sir Walter Scott I suppose) roe.
12 IN ON Party to duck, held in the local? (4, 2 words)
IN(O)N – O=zero=duck in cricketese.
13 AMYTAL During a sickness, starts to yawn – that’s being fed sedative (6)
A,M(Y,T)AL – mal=sickness (from the French) and first letters of “to yawn” for a sleeping pill. Actually first letters of “yawn — that’s”.
14 PETER Rabbit? What one may be when brought before HM? (5)
PET,ER – I suppose the current queen doesn’t have favourites but the first ER certainly did.   In addition, a rabbit itself might be a pet. Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rabbit
*16 MISHMASH A medley (8)
The competition word.  I’m off the hook.
18 ENDRIN Toxic substance that’s ruined dinner (6)
dinner* – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endrin
19 ENERGETICS One of the sciences (Greece isn’t involved) (10)
(Greece isn’t)*
22 SNOW CHAINS What’ll help you get a grip? As things are, tea, among group of seven? (10, 2 words)
S(NOW,CHA)INS – tea=CHA, as things are=NOW in SINS=which is a group of seven (deadly).
25 PUTTIE Connect knot for legging (6)
PUT=connect,TEE=knot but why? Since it’s actually TIE=knot for PUTTIE=puttee.
29 MEDUSOID Hydrozoan, odious, not the first found swimming in the sea (8)
([o]dious)* in MED=sea.  Type of jellyfish.
30 TORES Mouldings in warehouse, front to back (5)
Take “store”=warehouse and move first letter to end.
31 RESUME One practising turns in front of the author produces CV (6)
RESU,ME – rev(user=one practising) followed by ME=”the author” (of this puzzle).
32 IMAM Mosque officer? Don’t give —— for ’is supper! (4)
haha.  ‘IM,’AM – as in “don’t give him ham for his supper… since he’s presumably Muslim and thus doesn’t eat pork”.
33 DIES Ides possibly? Character ending life enters underworld (4)
ides* – I think this is a semi-&lit since wordplay is also ([lif]e)* in Dis=underworld.  Also Ides names a day which Latin dies is as well so an abundance of cryptic riches here.
34 OWER Scots on top? Or, when England rallies, they’re leading (4)
First letters.  Scots over.
35 MALAPERTNESS Pre-natal mishandled, in disorder, showing lack of respect (12)
(Pre-natal)* in mess.
Down
1 CHAMBERPOT Tempo Bach varied when involving River Jordan (10)
R in (Tempo Bach) * – turns out Jordan is archaic slang (biblical?) for a chamberpot.
2 HUMIC Mucker, I’ll be shifting first to last of rich soil (5)
Take CHUM=mate=mucker followed by I and move first letter to end to get HUMIC (ref. humus=rich soil).
3 LUTHERN Church reformer dominating north window (7)
LUTHER,N – a dormer window.
4 DRAMA Drink precedes a display of histrionics (5)
DRAM,A
5 RUSSET Classical country group – hempen homespun? (6)
RUS,SET – “Course homespun cloth…” – RUS=abbrev(Russia) and SET=group but not sure why “classical”? Because of all… the music? ballets? I feel like I’m missing something. Yes I was missing that rus=rural=country in Latin thus “classical”.
6 WIELD Handle fuse I inserted (5)
W(I)ELD
7 INTARSIA Decorative inlay tsarina ordered and I installed (8)
I in tsarina* – “… decorative wood inlay…”
8 NOETIAN No friend of Trinitarians, and one anti converting (7)
(one anti)* – I don’t pretend to understand religious schisms, sects etc. but you can learn about them here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity
11 ALATE Façade of temple flanked by wings recently (but no longer) (5)
ALA(T)E – archaic lately.  ALAE=winged.
15 RINGSIDERS Horsemen circling meadows – they get a good view of the action (10)
R(INGS)IDERS – ing=meadow.
17 VESTURAL Nun bagging bits of unwanted rags, such as old clothes (8)
VEST(U,R)AL – first letters of “unwanted rags” in VESTAL=nun.
20 NEUROMA Man strangely swallows coin, developing tumour (7)
EURO=coin in Man*.
21 CAISSON Aristo’s head is thus replacing contents of clean tumbril (7)
C(A,IS,SO)N – where A,IS,SO replaces “lea” of “clean” to produce something meaning a tumbril (wagon).
23 WEENIE Smoked sausage that is following tiny starter of niçoise (6)
WEE,N,IE – affectionate name for a wiener.  Basically a hot dog.
24 CADRE Revolutionary group around active Red (5)
C=around,A=active,Red*. More accurately, CA=about=around and “active” is the anagrind.
26 THEMA Cheers enveloping fringe subject (5)
T(HEM)A – TA=thanks, HEM=fringe — theme.
27 QUEST What one’s looking for in antique store (5)
hidden
28 LIMES Boundary trees (5)
two meanings – one is Latin limits basically.

*anagram

6 comments on “AZED 2,300/mishmash”

  1. Thanks for the blog, ilancaron.

    10a: The Chambers entry for raun credits the spelling to Walter Scott, but it is also given as a variant spelling under rawn¹ with no mention of him.

    25a is PUTTIE.

    5d: RUS means ‘the country’ in Latin; it’s the root of RURAL.

  3. Thanks for the blog, Ilancaron.

    In AMYTAL, it’s “yawn that” whose first letters are being used.

    In CADRE I think active is the anagram indicator for RED, with C standing for around.

  6. Rus is also the old Russian word for … Old Russia, so I didn’t get round to thinking of the Latin connection.

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