Posted by petebiddlecombe on 27th April 2008
If you would like to write an Azed report about once a month, there’s a space going - one of our current bloggers wants to drop out. If you’d like to have a go, drop me a line - peter at biddlecombe dot demon dot co dot uk.
Update:
We’ve now had three volunteers, which seems enough. I’ll let them introduce themselves when they appear.
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Posted by petebiddlecombe on 27th April 2008
Solving time: not recorded
I can’t remember how long this took or how much I used Chambers. But I made a wrong guess at the first letter of 17D, which suggests that the rest was solved without Chambers.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | SUFFRUTESCENT - (turf fuse)*, scent - herbaceous, with a woody stem-base |
| 12 | IN ONE - (NO.,N) in i.e. |
| 13 | IVOR(y) - ref. Ivor the Engine |
| 14 | RO(q)UE |
| 18 | HE,A,R.(TIKI)N. - “a little heart, used euphemistically in an old oath”, says C. |
| 19 | TAKE TEN - a longer version of “take five” |
| 20 | A.,ESC - “the rune for a, used in Old English for ae; the ligature ae used in Old English for the same sound (that of a in Mod Eng RP cat).” |
| 22 | ABD=bad*,OMEN |
| 25 | HEYS = “haze” = rag in the ‘play jokes on’ sense |
| 27 | PIROGUE = (I go up R.,)*,E |
| 30 | TRANSMUTE = (UN matters)* |
| 32 | D.E.,MOB - D.E. = Dept of Employment |
| 33 | DAFF - hidden reversal, - to put by (Shak.) |
| 34 | SAND = to polish with a sander, and the female novelist known as George Sand’s lover was Chopin, who was Polish. |
| 35 | MOWER - W. in Rome* |
| 36 | GULE - glue with its centre reversed, and Sots for ‘marigold’ |
| 37 | TRANSGENDERED - strange*,redden* |
| Down | |
| 1 | SCRATCH-TEST - scratchiest with T for I. Nice easy one if you’re married to an immunologist! |
| 2 | FLUNK(y) - to flunk = to faiil an exam, which is also ‘plough’ |
| 3 | F,LEG - a Scotticism for ’scare’ |
| 4 | RICH T(ea.) - sound = correct = right = richt. |
| 5 | UN,FEED |
| 6 | ENTRY = a field. I suspect the wordplay is Y = young. following something, but I can’t see what |
| 7 | SEE THE |
| 8 | EVOKES - OK in Seve rev. - ref. Olazabal and Ballesteros |
| 9 | NONISSUE - O = centre of ‘October’ in (suns(h)ine)* |
| 10 | TRENCHER-FED = separate from the pack, of hounds. (here FC)* in trend |
| 15 | CAN,OPUS - an urn for mortal remains |
| 17 | TABERDAR - beard* in tar = to incite = egg (vb.). I made a wrong guess at DABERDAR |
| 21 | HYAENA - A after AY rev. in HEN |
| 23 | BOSOMS - MO rev. in BOSS |
| 24 | MI(TT)EN - slang for ‘dismissal’, type (employment or cricket?) not specified in C. |
| 26 | E.,M.(BO)G. |
| 28 | REIRD = drier rev. |
| 29 | GLAUR - hidden - Scots for a mire |
| 31 | E(D.G.)E - the BBC = Auntie is headed up by the DG = Director General |
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