Very strange to see two variations of the same word in the one puzzle, and I was wondering if there was a theme forming from this, but I couldn’t see anything else. I thought this was rather a fun grid, with the longer answers on the outside stretching across the quadrants.
The first definition is underlined in clues.
Away we go…
| Across | |
| 1 | Captive should keep quiet, one no longer acting as guest should (9) |
| HOSPITAGE – HOSTAGE(captive) containing P(quiet), I(one) | |
| 11 | Worry about issue that once had cutting edge (8) |
| CEMITARE – CARE(worry) surounding EMIT(issue) – variation of SCIMITAR | |
| 12 | Exercise when wearing casual shirt in tent (5) |
| TEPEE – PE(exercise) in a TEE shirt | |
| 13 | Come again as fool having made return journey (4) |
| ANAN – NANA(fool) reversed | |
| 14 | Oval — this person had a 50 after a pair (6) |
| OOIDAL – I’D, A L(50) after OO – a pair of zeros in cricket | |
| 15 | Giants in beastly home cycling round (6) |
| ETTINS – cycle IN SETT | |
| 16 | I certainly must get guided round as an OAP? (8) |
| LEISURED – I SURE(certainly) inside LED(guided round) | |
| 17 | Plant without specification found in river (5) |
| TANSY – NS(not specifie) inside the river TAY | |
| 20 | Spell cast by the fellow with kiss (3) |
| HEX – HE, X(kiss) | |
| 21 | Function of nursery item (3) |
| COT – double definition, the function being trigonometric | |
| 25 | One had an eye left, external requirement (5) |
| NEELD – L with NEED(requirement) surrounding | |
| 27 | Chair made to rattle — out will come English coins (8) |
| DRACHMAI – anagram of CHAIR MADE minus E | |
| 28 | Worker in new university that will never take off (6) |
| NHANDU – HAND(worker) in N, U for the flightless bird | |
| 29 | Jock’s saved — the fellow had to secure a home (6) |
| HAINED – HE’D containing A, IN | |
| 31 | Border shown by line inside mineral (4) |
| ORLE – L inside ORE | |
| 32 | The old move around, start to sing, then grow weary (5) |
|
STIRE – S |
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| 33 | Fashionable Eastern member comes in — the influence is imaginary? (8) |
| TELEGONY – TONY(fashionable) containing E, LEG(member) | |
| 34 | Impoverished fellows in Britain’s capital, say, needing cover endlessly (9) |
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BEGGARMEN – B(ritain’s), EG, GARMEN |
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| Down | |
| 1 | Hospital, one with a shady dealer? React violently (6, two words) |
| HIT OUT – H, I, TOUT(shady dealer) | |
| 2 | Spread love with a superior sign (4) |
| OLEO – O, LEO(star sign) | |
| 3 | Slammed as “inept”, I will need friend showing discernment (12) |
| SAPIENTIALLY – anagram of AS INEPT then I, ALLY | |
| 4 | Kitchen item of many colours is on top of hob (7) |
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PIEDISH – PIED(of many colours), IS, H |
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| 5 | Goddess blabs outside university (6) |
| TELLUS – TELLS(blabs) outsie of U | |
| 6 | A meagre protection for power unit used by physicists (6) |
| AMPERE – A MERE(meagre) with P(power) inisde | |
| 7 | Trio with fool on a guitar (7) |
| GITTERN – GIT(fool) and TERN(trio) | |
| 8 | “Man is machine” — absurd old heresy? (12) |
| MANICHEANISM – anagram of MAN,IS,MACHINE | |
| 9 | Bound to be quiet not loud in the country (6) |
| PRANCE – replace F with P in FRANCE | |
| 10 | Understanding unknown quantity in economic indicator (6) |
| SENSEX – SENSE(uderstanding), X(unknown quailty) | |
| 18 | Gosh, man turns up to make use of enclosed space! (7) |
| YARDAGE – reversal pf EGAD(gosh), RAY(man) | |
| 19 | Artist with occasions for raising an old weapon (7) |
| SEMITAR – RA and TIMES all reversed | |
| 21 | Natural hole a very short distance inside shelter (6) |
| CENOTE – EN(short distance) inside COTE(shelter) | |
| 22 | Brownish-yellow colouring on a botanical feature (6) |
| OCHREA – OCHRE(brownish-yellow colouring) with A | |
| 23 | Like ship in good nick that has to travel north for fish (6) |
| TAUTOG – TAUT(like ship in good nick), then GO (travel) reversed | |
| 24 | Feeling a bit of pain? Treatment finally comes from this Chinese text (6) |
|
ICHING – ITCHING(feeling a bit of pain) minus |
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| 26 | Pipe of dullish hue crossing river (6) |
| DUDEEN – DUN(dull hue) surrounding DEE(river) | |
| 30 | What was long vessel in the sound (4) |
| ERNE – sounds like URN | |
SENSEX my LOI as I was sure it was INDEX with a letter in. But I got there in the end with all, I think, parsed correctly. Thanks for confirming that, George and for the puzzle, Don.
Jeremy