Beelzebub No 1226

A pleasure to solve and to blog

 

 

 

 

Across

3 Unease, with male garrison going to dance DISCOMFORT

DISCO (dance) M (male) FORT (garrison)

10 Trucks run out, leaving roads UTES ROUTES (roads) minus RO (run out)

11 Recalled to narrate account: Shakespeare’s Shrew? CALLET

(TELL (narrate) AC (account))<

12 Agree endless barrels – will display this? CHIMB &lit (barrel feature)

CHIM[e] (agree endless) B (barrels)

13 Architect, tense with desire, plunged into endless lechery LUTYENS

T (tense) YEN (desire) in LUS[t] (lechery endless)

15 A Parisienne carrying whip with hooks UNCATE

CAT (whip) in UNE (a French)

17 Spanish fruit tree, around territory and open country BITTER ORANGE

TER (territory) in BITO (tree) RANGE (open country)

18 Mineral combine impeded by stormy rain URANINITE

(RAIN)* in UNITE (combine)

20 A couple of fish infested by a family of parasites ASCARIDAE

A A in SCAR (fish) IDE (fish)

23 Surreal unlit ground, unclaimed ground TERRA NULLIUS (SURREAL UNLIT)*

26 Parts of jellyfish dance in waves surrounding one CNIDAE

I (one) in (DANCE)*

27 Raised surfaces annoy half-a-dozen going round island RILIEVI

I (one) in RILE (annoy) VI (six)

28 Girl returning tree to yard EMILY LIME< (tree) Y (yard)

29 Lines about a London cultural centre for the people LAICAL

A ICA (culture centre) in LL (lines)

30 I fish, letting nothing escape, in area with coast ISLE I S[o]LE (fish)

31 Glow with being involved in operation of science INCANDESCE

AND (with) in (SCIENCE)*

Down

1 Left court upset about university support for late student LUCUBRATOR

L (left) U (university) BRA (support) in (COURT)*

2 Code hiding name of heathen group ETHNIC N (name) in ETHIC (code)

3 I cited varied chapter using pronouns ? DEICTIC (I CITED)* C (chapter)

4 Suntan bearer abroad presumably hasn’t been this! SUBTERRANEAN &lit

(SUNTAN BEARER)*

5 Irish town taking care of shelter admitting wet weather COLERAINE

CO (care of) RAIN (wet weather) in LEE (shelter)

6 Substance making up animals and trees possibly MATERIALNESS

(ANIMALS TREES)*

7 I know the ropes, knowing lots, but not all FLYMAN (theatre worker)

FLY (knowing) MAN[y] (lots)

8 Oily stuff, mostly smelly, surrounding one OLEIN I (one) in OLEN[t] (smelly)

9 Tear runs before death REND R (runs) END (death)

14 Amorous look – woman records onset of each, certainly SHEEP’S EYES

SHE (woman) EPS (records) E[ach] YES (certainly)

16 Favourable study expected about rise in crime, mostly CONDUCIVE

CON (study) VIC[e]< (crime mostly back) in DUE (expected)

19 Add colour to one trip round Iceland IRIDISE

I (one) IS (Iceland) in RIDE (trip)

21 Arabian fruits mostly picked up for herbal remedy ARNICA

AR (Arabian) ACIN[i]< (fruits up)

22 Behave amorously taking in United as a couple DUALLY

U (United) in DALLY (behave amorously)

24 Priest blocking Catholic object of veneration RELIC

ELI (priest) in RC (Catholic)

25 Spanish aunt with new baked dish TIAN TIA (Spanish aunt) N (new)

( )* = anagram    [ ] = omit    < = reverse   definitions in bold italics

 

1 comment on “Beelzebub No 1226”

  1. Conrad Cork

    Thanks Jed and B. It always makes my day to settel down with the Evil One.

Comments are closed.