Azed 1858 - Competition Puzzle
Posted by petebiddlecombe on 12th January 2008
In theory I should delay this another hour but I’m sure anyone intending to write a clue to HUMONGOUS will have done so by now.
Solving time: 22:20 - no books - and no mistakes for a change (unless of course, you know different). Despite about 11 new words for me, this was a straightforward puzzle.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | OBSTRUCTED R in (doubts etc.)* |
| 11 | GEARE hidden - = gear = armour (obs.) - new meaning to me |
| 12 | COEQUAL - Lord COE,QUA,L |
| 13 | METOPON - met,op,on - a less addicitve alternative to morphine apparently - first of a pair, both new to me I think |
| 14 | MOXA - ox = neat, in ma- leaf down, sunflower pith or other fluffy sbstances used to relieve chronic arthritic pain |
| 17 | CLIP-ON - lip = brass = cheek in con |
| 18 | DIENE - E in dine - an organis compound with two bonds between carbon atoms - those double lines I vaguely remember from the diagrams, I guess. |
| 25 | SANKO - or sancho - a W African guitar - another new word |
| 27 | THORPE - H in (rep to)* |
| 31 | ODAL - rev. of L,ado - my time might have been even quicker if I hadn’t strugggled to remember this barred-grid chestnut. A bit worrying, that was. |
| 32 | NARTHEX - n,art,hex - it’s something in church architecture and that’s near enough for me. |
| 33 | NORIMON - new word for me - rim in noon = 12. |
| 35 | DRESS SENSE - S in rednesses* |
| Down | |
| 2 | BEEGLUE - gee=well! reversed in blue=waste |
| 3 | SATI - from satiable |
| 4 | TROPPO - (Op. port) rev. |
| 6 | CONFRONTE - CON(FR.,ON)TE - new word but not worth looking up |
| 7 | TELEDU - eluted* - the stinking badger of Java |
| 8 | DUODENA - don’t quite get the worplay though I guess it involves the oud, a N African fiddle. |
| 9 | WAXEN - axe in (he)wn |
| 10 | CLARENCEUX - CLARE=Nun - a ‘Poor Clare’ I guess,N,C.E.,ux. = uxor = wife. New word for me - the second king-of-arms in England apparently |
| 13 | MOCHA STONE - mo,chast(e),one - another new word but one not worth looking up |
| 15 | ANGELENOS - gel in (as none)* - residents of LA |
| 20 | MANSARD - man,sa(r)d - those roofs with steep sides and flatter tops |
| 21 | LIPPENS - lip,pens - a new Scots word for me |
| 23 | TO-NAME - on in tame |
| 24 | PONTIE = punty and other spellings - the iron rod used by glassblowers, another new word for me |
| 26 | AIDOS - “I do” in as. Gk. for modesty - another new word, I think |
| 28 | HARDS - hard,S - I think I may have seen this meaning before |
| 30 | THAN - H in tan. I don’t understand the def., but it must be right. |
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