Spectator 2155

[hankir]

I have all the unclued lights but need help with two clues:

31. Scots hungry for source of the 'black drink' (6)
?AUP??

(Is there a place to look up Scottish words?)

38. Brings in food for Yuletide singers (5)
?AI?S

Waits as in Waiter bringing food?

Thanks in advance.

[Mamyalynne]

'Yaupie' is Scots dialect for hungry, but cannot get further than that.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes 'Waits' is an old term for Carollers.

[hankir]

Thanks Mamyalynne for responding in the early AM.

Yaupon must mean hungry.
Just checked Chambers. It does mean 'black drink', but no reference to hungry.

[Wharton]

Yaup (Scots for hungry) + on (Ontario)

[hankir]

Thank you Maurice.
Yaup is in Chambers.
Yaupon says that it is from North America but does not specify Ontario.

Probably will never encounter this word ever again.

[minroffletin]

Yaup is hungry, on = for, as in "waiting on someone, waiting for someone." Hence, yaupon, the black drink.