Beelzebub 1,320 – Fifteensquared

A rare uninterrupted single-session solve for me, though the amount of scribbles on my paper suggest it was no walkover. Chambers got a fair bit of use to finish off the last quarter or so.

The left side was last in for me, though convincing myself that 1 down was (SHARP KARATE)* didn’t help.

Another tardy post due to insufficient IT facilities, so apologies for that.

*=anagram, []=dropped, <=reversed. Hover to expand abbreviations.

Across
2	HIBERNACULUM – (BRUIN ALE MUCH)*.
11	AULA – A[l]ULA.
12	SIGNORA – (A [w]RONG IS)<.
13	REEVE – [p]REEVE.
14	CANISTER – C + RETSINA<.
16	PETAR – PET + AR.
17	ARCHERESS – RE in (AR + CHESS).
19	REMIND – MI in REND. “Me” and “mi” being alternate spellings of the musical note.
21	SEESAW – SEE + SAW.
23	STRIP CLUB – S[ome] T[ypes] + RIP + CLUB.
25	TITER – [be]T IT ER[upts].
28	ENERGISE – ER in SEEING*.
29	UPRUN – U + PRUN[e].
30	ANTIOCH – ANTI + 0 + CH.
31	KITE – [s]KITE.
32	KITCHEN DUTCH – KIT + (HEND in CUTCH). This one took some teasing apart, as both HEND and CUTCH were unfamiliar to me.

Down
1	TARTAR STEAK – TART + (S in KARATE*).
2	HUED – E in HUD.
3	ILEAC – I + LEAC[h].
4	ELEVENS – two definitions, I guess: teams/something refreshing.
5	RECORD – COR[n] in RED.
6	AINU – A + UNI<.
7	UNSELECT – (TEN CLUES)*.
8	LOTTOS – LOT + TO + S[tarvation].
9	UREAL – U[n]REAL.
10	MARROW-BONES – MARROW (N. English term) + BONES.
12	SAGEBRUSH – B in (SAGE + RUSH).
15	CHIMERIC – CHIMER + IC.
18	SEPPUKU – SEP[t] + PUKU.
20	MOTETT – TET in MOT.
21	SINEAD – SIN + EA + D.
22	JINNI – J + INN + I.
24	LYRIC – [sure]LY RIC[e]. A reference to lyricist Tim Rice, of course.
26	NICE – N + ICE.
27	RUTH – [t]RUTH.

1 comment on “Beelzebub 1,320”

I’m on holiday so I don’t have the puzzle to hand at the moment, but I do remember I got through this rather quickly last week – less than an hour – and for 2ac, it was useful that the TV series Grimm had just had an episode called Hibernaculum.

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