Across
1 How youth get carried away? There’s benefit around new theatre
SNAKEBOARDS N in SAKE + BOARDS (not in Chambers)
11 Supporting beam, very much still alive
SOLIVE SO + LIVE
12 Sole original idea about time
PLANTA T in PLAN A (sole of the foot)
13 Judge forwarded enclosure to hospital department
SENTENCER SENT + ENC + ER
14 Goblin daring to hide lake
PUCK P[l]UCK
16 Waterweed, portion ebbing on flowing water
ELODEA DOLE< + EA
17 Old woman’s about to return as a girl
CELINA (ANILE + C)< (anile = old womanish)
18 Simplifies calculations? That could be seminar’s role
RENORMALISES (SEMINARS ROLE)*
19 Delectations distracted important meeting
CONSEIL D’ETAT (DELECTATIONS)*
24 Cover fish in endless smelly resin
HEEL IN EEL in HIN[g] (hing is asafoetida’ a resin used in curries)
25 Uniform linked to a trade union vehicle
MATATU MAT + A + TU
27 Air Corps reaching soldiers in minutes
ACTA AC + TA
28 Poetry involving tear? On the contrary, no longer upset
RENVERSED VERSE in REND
29 I am defining attribute of lion?
IMMANE IM + MANE (immane = cruel, savage)
30 Wild tiger, note, circled
ENGIRT (TIGER N)*
31 Rinses boats, possibly implying these?
ABSTERSIONS (RINSES BOATS)*
Down
2 Absence of goal for Hibs is a complication
NODULE NO + DULE
3 A sidelong look about swindle by town’s latest standards officer
ALE-CONNER (CON [tow]N) in A LEER
4 Smooth operator’s smooth appearance with energy to the fore
EVENER VENEER with E moved to front
5 Tropical plant yielding narcotic, mark, found in race course
BENJAMIN-TREE BENJ + M in AINTREE
6 Concentrated beam spoilt camera badly
OPTICAL MASER (SPOILT CAMERA)*
7 A pair of students coming round the day before for exam
A-LEVEL EVE in A LL
8 Queen and country primarily organised?
RANI IRAN the I moved
9 Tin containing marijuana. Ecstasy and pot
STEANE TEA in SN + E
10 Garbled a truism about a skill shown in Schiller play
MARIA STUART (A TRUISM A)* + ART
11 Prosecutor seizing fish that is indicated in fraud
SUPERCHERIE PERCH in SUER + IE
15 Fruit-kernel: is it dished up with a chop?
PISTACHIO (IS IT A CHOP)*
20 Dictionary’s soul overthrown in morbid accumulation
OEDEMA OED + AME<
21 English station signal humming over the border
EIDENT E + I DENT
22 Archdeacon enthralled by the German rocks
DAVENS VEN in DAS (is not in Chambers)
23 Accept new landlord: advanced rent after little time
ATTORN A TORN after T
26 Form of radiation’s doing for grapes
UVAS UV + AS
Crikey. I take my hat off to you for this one. I got absolutely nowhere this week, so it’s a good job it wasn’t my turn! Definitely the hardest Beelzebub I can remember.