\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Difficulty rating: I struggled to make this one last beyond my second slice of Toastie and marmalade, Just the one ‘hidden’, but four other clues where the solution was obtained by selecting letters straight from the clue.\u00a0 Perhaps a\u00a0 little of the joie de vivre<\/em> of last week’s puzzle was lacking from this one, but it still contained some entertaining clues.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n 9a<\/strong>\u00a0Mop I’m handing over to seaman in state of dizziness (4)<\/span> 14a<\/strong>\u00a0This hemlock derivative encompasses end for Socrates – as icon perished?(5)<\/span> 16a<\/strong>\u00a0There’s a lot of blood attached to mafia family in this Chicago racket (7)<\/span> 30a<\/strong>\u00a0Love-making cut at start after bug returns? Not<\/em> what you want in bed! (5)<\/span> \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n 3d<\/strong>\u00a0Very young hawk, unconstrained, tail up (4)<\/span> 7d<\/strong>\u00a0Secret crime society? One might deduce its members are up\u00a0this<\/em> (4)<\/span> 8d<\/strong>\u00a0Husky in frost at head of sledge being unloaded? (6)<\/span> 15d<\/strong>\u00a0Not fully empowered, pub struggles, accordingly limiting that red wine (9)<\/span> 22d<\/strong>\u00a0Divine symbol of maleness, glam by implication (6)<\/span> The girls who frequent picture-palaces 23d<\/strong>\u00a0New trap given room by motorists – it’s a dreadful pain (6)<\/span> 28d<\/strong>\u00a0Part of crust rolled up as wrap (4)<\/span> \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A puzzle with several straightforward clues to get the solver started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azednotes"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2](\"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/universal-star-rating\/includes\/image.php?img=cSquares.png&px=12&max=10&rat=2&folder=cusri\")
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The state of dizziness is a\u00a0 SWIM, with I’M ‘handing over to’ (being replaced by) AB (‘seaman’, of the able sort). Incidentally, the term ‘able-bodied seaman’ seems to be a modern back-formation from the abbreviation AB, which was used in registers to clearly distinguish Able Seamen from their less accomplished (and less generously remunerated) brethren, the Ordinary Seamen, who were designated as OS.<\/p>\r\n
A composite anagram, where the letters of AS ICON when rearranged (‘perished’) can produce the solution plus S (the ‘end for Socrates’).<\/p>\r\n
This US spelling of a word meaning din (‘Chicago racket’) is produced by attaching GOR(e) (‘a lot of blood’) to the end of CLAN (‘mafia family’). Chambers gives ‘Mafia’ a capital letter, but the OED doesn’t.<\/p>\r\n
One of those clues where a nice idea has proved tricky to realize. The ‘love-making cut at start’ for SEX without the S is fine, but MIC (shortened form of microphone) for ‘bug’ is a bit of a stretch. Worse still, ‘after bug returns’ might seem fine at first glance to mean ‘placed after MIC reversed’, but it doesn’t – ‘after’ with the present indicative introduces a subordinate clause relating to a sequence in time<\/em> (‘Liverpool win after defender blunders’); for the wordplay to work, this element would need to be ‘after returning bug’.<\/p>\r\n
EASY (‘unconstrained’) with the last letter (‘tail’) moved up a couple of places.<\/p>\r\n
This is a neat clue, the members of such a society very likely to be up TO NG (abbreviation for ‘no good’).<\/p>\r\n
This parses as HOAR (‘frost’) above (‘at head of’) the first and last letters of ‘sledge’ (‘unloaded’, ie emptied out).<\/p>\r\n
The wording here has been twisted about in order to make the wordplay syntactically accurate, with the anagram of PUB (‘pub struggles’) having SO (‘accordingly’) containing it (‘limiting that, ‘that’ being the struggling pub), with TENT (‘red wine’) bringing up the rear.<\/p>\r\n
‘Glam’ is implied by L IN GAM.<\/p>\r\n
Are wary of psychoanalysis
Indeed, they’re annoyed
By the great Dr. Freud
And cling to their long-standing fallacies<\/p>\r\n
Can the AA ‘giving room’ to an anagram of TRAP (‘new trap’) indicate containment? Probably not, in truth, but we all know what he means.<\/p>\r\n
I’m very surprised to find Azed giving no indication that this alternative spelling of ‘amice’ belongs firmly to the sixteenth century and has not been shared with any subsequent eras.<\/p>\r\n