Beelzebub 1,048 (21/03/2010)
Posted by Simon Harris on March 28th, 2010
I’d say this was about average difficulty for Beelzebub, without too much to comment on, other than the unusually large number of abbreviations used – which became evident on formatting the HTML for this post!
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | CRYPTOLOGIST – CRY + P + TO + LO + GIST. |
| 10 | ROSARIAN – SARI in ROAN. |
| 12 | QUINTET – (N + [char]T) in QUIET. |
| 13 | SABOTS – S + AB[b]OTS. |
| 14 | FREER – R in REEF<. |
| 15 | DISADORN – (SAD + OR) in DIN. |
| 17 | AYES – A YES. |
| 18 | SEALGH – GALES* + H. |
| 20 | MERGES – ERG in MES[s]. |
| 21 | CAPE – CA + PE. |
| 23 | CAMISADO – C + AIMS* + ADO. |
| 26 | NOTED – NO + TED. |
| 28 | VARIER – RAV< + IE + R. |
| 29 | TOTALLY – TO + TALLY. |
| 30 | PINCHGUT – (INCH + G) in PUT. |
| 31 | MEETING-HOUSE – (EIGHT MEN)* + OUSE. |
| Down | |
| 1 | CRASSAMENTUM – (MASS< + TUNE*) in CRAM . |
| 2 | ROMANY – OMAN in RY. |
| 3 | PAGOD – (DO + GAP)<. |
| 4 | TRITIDE – TRI[m] + TIDE. |
| 5 | LAURASIA – (AURA + S) in LIA[r]. |
| 6 | GENRO – GEN + RO. |
| 7 | INTERLACING – L in (NINE TRAGIC)*. |
| 8 | SNEE – N in SEE. |
| 9 | TETRAHEDRITE – (THE TRADE)* + RITE. |
| 11 | SABRE-RATTLE – (RE + TART*) in SABLE. |
| 16 | SASSOLIN – (L + I) in SASSO[o]N. |
| 19 | ENDARCH – END + ARCH. |
| 22 | PLEXUS – LEX in PUS. |
| 24 | MEANT – [troubleso]ME ANT[ics]. |
| 25 | ORTHO – [p]ORTHO[s]. |
| 27 | OOZE – O + OZ + E. |