This week’s Beelzebub was excellent train company on a trek home from The North.
I don’t tend to keep note of timings, but since I was still finishing Inquisitor as the train passed through Leicester, and I’d completed this some time before reaching St. Pancras, it must have been a relatively swift solve.
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | BOONDOCKS – DOCK in BOONS. |
| 9 | JAG – two definitions: a drinking bout/a slash or notch in a garment. |
| 12 | AGREE – RE in AGE. |
| 13 | ARAPAHO – A RAP + A HO. |
| 14 | CLAPPERCLAWER – CLAPPER + C + LAW[y]ER. |
| 17 | SAGA – (A GAS)<. |
| 18 | SMACKEROO – (COR + MAKES)* + 0. Not actually an Australian term for pugilist, to my very great disappointment. |
| 19 | CHOREA – CHORE + A. |
| 20 | HERETO – ET in HERO. |
| 22 | HEURISTIC – (E + [j]URIST) in HIC. |
| 23 | IAIN – A1< + IN. |
| 28 | ARACHNOLOGIST – (LONGHAIR COASTS)*. |
| 29 | PONCEAU – ONCE in PAU. |
| 30 | SENNA – S[i]ENNA. Rumours that it’s named after Ayrton, on account of how fast it makes you go, sadly turn out to be exaggerated. |
| 31 | SEG – S[ex] + EG. |
| 32 | MESSENGER – ESSEN in (M + GER). |
| Down | |
| 1 | BACK – two definitions. |
| 2 | OGLE – (EL + GO)<. |
| 3 | ORANG-OUTANG – ORANG[e] + OUT + A + NG. |
| 4 | DEPOSE – POS in DEE. |
| 5 | OVERMAST – MAS[s] in OVERT. |
| 6 | CARNAPTIOUS – (OUR CAPTAIN’S)*. |
| 7 | SALE – S + ALE. |
| 8 | SPARE RIB – PARER in SIB. |
| 9 | JAW-BREAKING – J + (BREAK in AWING). |
| 10 | AHEM – A + HEM. |
| 11 | GORSOON – R in (GO + SOON). |
| 15 | CARRACCI – CARRAC[k] + (I + C)<. |
| 16 | ACHILLES – HILL in ACES. |
| 17 | SCHNAPS – SCH + NAPS. |
| 21 | ECLOSE – E-CLOSE. |
| 24 | FROE – R in FOE. |
| 25 | THEM – THE + M. |
| 26 | ESNE – [s]ENSE<. |
| 27 | STAR – STAR[kers]. |