Beelzebub 1,055 (09/05/10)

Back down to earth with a bump for me, after doing very well indeed the last couple of weeks. There’s a fair bit in here that I can’t explain, and even a bit of guesswork, I’m afraid.

*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.

Across
1	TOWNSCAPING – not sure about this one: Work of urban designer being weak, panic’s developed in guild. I can see PANIC* in there, and maybe G for “guild”, but “being weak”?
10	EURATOM – RAT in MOUE<.
11	TAPS – dd. Apparently to a Girl Guide, “taps” is “a song sung at the end of a meeting or round a campfire”.
12	LLANOS – L + (N in LAOS).
14	LEVEE – (V + E) in LEE.
16	SERAC – RA in SEC.
17	SKY-TINCTURED – C in (KIT DYE TURNS)*.
18	CAPLET – CAP + LET. I made life difficult by writing in TABLET early on, thinking of TAB as in “keep tabs on”.
22	LECTOR – CT in (LEO + R).
23	PEDICELLARIA – ((ICE + [braw]L) in (PEDLAR + I)) + A.
25	LEARN – LEA + RN.
27	CORNU – (OR + [collectio]N) in Cu.
28	TOWSED – (WET SO)* + D.
29	AN MO – (O + MNA)<.
30	TONDINO – (N + DIN) in TOO.
31	PASTORALISM – ORAL in (PASTIS + M).

Down
1	TELESCOPICAL – (L in TEES) + (PIC in COAL).
2	OULAKAN – ([k]ULAK + [tavern]A) in ON.
3	NANA – Na + NA.
4	STORIED – EDITORS*.
5	COSENTIENT – C + ONES* + (I in TENT).
6	PALET – PAL + ET.
7	ITERUM – I + (U in TERM).
8	NAVARATRA – (ART + [c]ARAVAN)<.
9	PSEUDORANDOM – (SUPER MOOD AND)*.
13	OSCILLATOR – ILL in…I’m not sure. Swinger badly restricted by censor with rule after opening.
15	HYPODERMA – (RE + DOPY + H)< + MA.
19	BELLONA – another guess based on BELL + ON + A. Bellona was a Roman war goddess. I’m not quite sure how this makes her “vigorous” so I’m happy to be corrected here.
20	HOIDENS – DEN in (HO + IS).
21	PIANOS – PI + (O in ANS).
24	CRUST – C + RUST.
26	AWDL – [o]LD WA[y]<.

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