Wonder how many other folk allow themselves this weekly treat
Across
1 Jerk restricting path taken by Jack in athletic event
BROAD JUMP ROAD (path) J (jack) in BUMP (jerk)
11 It’s time to fill glass a little for Angus
BITTOCK IT T (time) in BOCK (glass)
13 Bloody American fellow’s sickness
HEMAL HE (fellow) MAL (sickness)
14 Working to keep church active in the main
OCEAN CE (church) A (alive) in ON (working)
15 I note staff securing a degree of progress
INROAD I N (note) A in ROD (staff)
16 Bluish rill swirling round yard in Wiltshire location
SILBURY HILL (BLUISH RILL)*
17 Active – as 28 must be?
ASTIR &lit (STRIA)* (28d active)
18 Girl exercises, carrying tool and barrel
PHOEBE HOE (tool) B (barrel) in PE (exercises)
20 Being worried with point?
ENSATE ENS (being) ATE (worried)
21 Failing nag following action
PAST IT PAS (action) TIT (nag)
23 Plant no longer … no longer a melon?
EXOGEN (dicotyledon obsolete) EX (no longer) OGEN (melon)
25 Times following attraction in flashy stuff
LUREX LURE (attraction) X (times)
29 You’ll find Mr on gad then, possibly!
GANDER MONTH (MR ON GAD THEN)* gad is to wander about restlessly
30 Cross joke backfired? Don’t despair!
CHIN UP CHI (cross) PUN< (joke backfired)
31 Zero participating in Indian city assembly
AGORA O (zero) in AGRA (Indian city)
32 Citizen soldiers backing story
ATTIC story = storey CIT TA< (citizen soldiers backing)
33 Unknown figures preceding me into into enclosure, having catalytic effect
ENZYMIC ZY (unknown figures) MI (me) in ENC (enclosure)
34 Trendy youth no longer followed what everyone always did initially
SUEDEHEAD SUED (followed) EH (what) E[veryone] A[lways] D[id]
Down
2 Food processing mostly does for poison
RICIN RICIN[g] (food processing mostly)
3 Loves to accept order in opera
OTELLO TELL (order) in OO (loves)
4 Party with fruitcake and other confection
DONUT DO (party) NUT (fruitcake)
5 Rotter displacing one in dance, showing sign of improvement
J-CURVE in economics CUR (rotter) replacing I in JIVE (dance)
6 European country that is retaining acknowledgement for Asian art
UKIYOE UK (European country) YO (acknowledgement) in IE (that is)
7 Gossipy role dispersed lots of words?
PERISSOLOGY (verbiage) (GOSSIPY ROLE)*
8 Cat’s up to swallow lake salmon
SMOLT L (lake) in TOM’S< (cat’s up)
9 Convert to Islam brought in to diminish pagan
BAALITE ALI (convert to Islam) in BATE (diminish)
10 Medieval language in folder translated by northern church
OLD FRENCH (FOLDER)* N (northern) CH (church)
12 Nine battles playing sport
TABLE TENNIS (NINE BATTLES)*
16 College petition reviewed pupil’s act
SUPPLICAT (PUPIL’S ACT)*
19 Hot and sexy, but not initially superior
HAUGHTY H (hot) [n]AUGHTY (sexy)
22 Tent, one that’s half cut by sword
TEEPEE EPEE (sword) in TE[nt]
23 Leader abandoning Earthman to dead mission
ERRAND [t]ERRAN (Earthman SciFi) D (dead)
24 All the chromosomes, information in first being absent
GENOME GEN (information) [h]OME (in)
26 Indian dish a sailor served up – one tucks in
RAITA I (one) in A TAR< (a sailor up)
27 A cereal I abandoned in surprise
AMAZE A MA[i]ZE (cereal minus I)
28 Line up quarters in Dundee
STRIA AIRTS< (Scottish quarters up)
( )* = anagram [ ] = omit < = reverse definitions in italics
Well Jed, you probably know by now that I am one of those who do.
Shall we all out ourselves?
At least let us try to s[pread the word.
I too am a regular Beelzebub solver – and proud to be so.
Re 16 A…and the ‘y’ comes from ‘yard’.
Me too when I can score a copy!
Highlight of my week, crossword-wise.
Whereas I often can’t complete the weekday puzzles in the Indie, it’s a rare week where I can’t complete this, although I sometimes do a word search for the odd letter at the end. (Quicker than going through Chambers.) I also enjoy the odd words it throws up – like GANDERMONTH and PERISSOLOGY.