Beelzebub 1,276

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This all seemed fairly straightforward for the most part, with Chambers just required to wrap up a few loose ends. The bit where I am stumped is 25 down.

The initial letter is unchecked, so could be C or T, but the wordplay has me beaten.

*=anagram, []=dropped, <=reversed.

Across
1 SPECIES – EC in SPIES.
7 EDNA – [wom]AN DE[finitely]<.
11 ARCANE – CAN in ARE.
13 AMEER – A + MEER.
14 COUNTER-ROLL – COUNTER + ROLL.
15 TARPEIA – RAT< + (A1 + EP)<. I don’t think I’d heard of Tarpeia, but the wordplay seemed quite clear.
16 CORRIE-FISTED – CO + (S in TERRIFIED*).
17 SWEET FA – WEE in FAST*.
21 UNGORED – UNDERGO*.
22 IATROCHEMIST – (SO + ARITHMETIC)*.
24 JUNINHO – (IN + H) in JUNO.
26 LEVI-STRAUSS – (TRAVELS + US + IS)*. Claude Lévi-Strauss, rather than the jeans guy.
27 MISOS – O in MISS.
28 PERSIA – PER + SIA[m].
29 PESO – PES[t] + O.
30 NEEDLER – NEED + L[n]ER.
Down
1 SACK – two definitions: bed as in “hit the sack”, plus this sort of thing.
2 PROMO – P + ROMO, a brief fad which I vaguely remember.
3 CANTRED – CAN’T + RED. I can’t quite find a reference for “red” being “to handle match”, but I suspect it’s there somewhere.
4 INTUITIONISM – (N + TUITION) in (I + M).
5 SARAFAN – (A + F) in SARAN.
6 CARRIAGE-FREE – (I in RAG) in CAREFREE .
8 DELETERIOUS – (ROUTE + DIESEL)*.
9 NELIES – LIE in NES[t].
10 ARCADED – CAD in A RED.
12 CURRENTNESS – (TURNS SCREEN)*.
17 SKI JUMP – JU[ly]in SKIMP.
18 FUCHSIN – SUCH* in FIN.
19 LOMBARD – MBA in LORD.
20 SAULIE – SAU[l] + LIE. In this case, “mute” means a hired funeral mourner.
23 SUSIE – US in SIE.
25 ?SAR – Set on invoking special authority.

 

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