This was at the speedier end of the Beelzebub spectrum
ACROSS
1 Plenty more winds limiting man’s assessment of clouds NEPHELOMETRY
HE man in (PLENTY MORE)* study of clouds in liquids
10 Record? Recalled single securing No 4 in charts ENROL
R 4th letter in charts in LONE<
11 Weak and soon transfixed by one literary curse WANION curse
I one in WAN ON
12 Symbols of banking assail Government about errors? On the contrary
POUND SIGNS assail POUND G government in SINS errors
13 No longer care about cook, withdrawing all love RECK care
about RE COOK minus both Os all love
16 Force of Reichenbach? A twist from Holmes’s creator ODYLE
Conan (DOYLE)*
17 Supplier of conveyance:Ferrari’s great to run GRANTOR legal
Italian for great GRAN TO R run
18 Israeli city’s recessed section shocked most of Israel TIBERIAS city
section BIT< (ISRAE)*
22 He’d no pa, right? Sadly, being this ORPHANED
(HED NO PA R)*
23 Deception mostly extorted from local sprawl SCAMBLE sprawl
deception SCAM BLE[d]
24 Source of poison in country (not formost one) URALI plant
country [r]URAL I one
27 Monkey not entirely peacable in Perth DOUC monkey
peaceable Scottish DOUC[e]
28 Because he’d failed, they went on the town DEBAUCHEES
(BECAUSE HED)*
29 Lazy boys ? I had one skipping lessons once IDLERS lazy people
I had ID LEIRS old word for lessons minus I
30 Party consuming most of remarkable source of milk DSOMO
female zho Hymalayan hybrid cattle – milk source SOM[e] in DO
31 Acrobatic equipment and loudspeaker not with scrap dealer TEETERTOTTER
loudspeaker TWEETER minus W with TOTTER rag-and-bone-man
teeter-totter a board which throws one in the air when someone jumps on other end
DOWN
1 Cause death of cells in preparation of secretion NECROTISE cause cell death
(SECRETION)*
2 Stopped daughter getting trapped in upsurge in depression ENDED stopped
(D in DENE)<
3 Small fastener satisfactory, blocking aperture on time HOOKLET
OK in HOLE T
4 Avoid study, giving up time for student ELUDE avoid
study ETUDE swapping T for L
5 Darlings at work around middle of hostilities? LAND GIRLS
[hosti]L[ities] in (DARLINGS)*
6 Plantation owners, say gather it up MASSAS plantation owners
gather MASS it- sex appeal SA<
7 Feast possibly upset this girl ENID DINE<
8 Tense? Twitch, getting tense in embrace of woman TIGHTEN tense
twitch TIG T tense in HEN woman
9 King subject to that insult from Macbeth RONYON insult Shakespeare
king R subject to ON that YON
14 Ammunition doing for pager? GRAPESHOT ammunition
doing for – anagram indicator SHOT (PAGER)*
15 I foresee penny getting rubbish booze served up PREDICTOR
penny P (ROT CIDER)<
19 Shakespearean fight, initially before groundlings? BRABBLE fight
first letter of Before RABBLE groundlings
20 Hearts inflamed with passion changing direction to be most unfeeling
HARDEST H ARDENT N changed to S
21 Agree English navigation system should be promoted ACCEDE agree
E DECCA<
22 Swear on book (justice practice of old) OBJURE swear
on book OB JURE right by law
24 Rust partly scoured off UREDO rust hidden in scoURED Off
25 Endless pestilence gripping millions and millions? Crikey! LUMME crikey
MM in pestilence LUE[[s]
26 Agitated about a small amount in Scotland HAET A in HET
( )* = anagram < = reverse [ ] = omit
Well I finished this on the day of publication, first time ever with a Beelzebub so it must have been at the easier end, really must buy a Chambers some day…