Beelzebub 1,201 – Fifteensquared

A very tough week. There was plenty to look up, both definitions and wordplay elements, much of which was only to be found in Chambers. The wordplay for 7ac eludes me, while 27ac and 28db have beaten me completely. The relevant clues have been reproduced.

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

Across
1	BANDANNA – BAND + ANNA[l].
7	ORFE – Fit to eat this fish? That’d be fine.
11	AGEING – A + (EIN in (G + G)).
13	ONCER – NO< + CE + R, and a very nice &lit.
14	REVVED – (V + V) in REED.
15	ECLAT – C in TALE<.
16	PACKAGE – KAG[o] in PACE.
17	POLYSYNDETON – POLY + SYN + NOTE<.
18	ENGUARD – (A GERUND)*.
23	EATABLE – EA + TABLE.
25	THE GODFATHER – G[overnment] in (TED HEATH FOR)*.
27	SOL?NA? – Like sand, say, at heart bowled over as tides develop.
29	HOKUM – OK in HUM.
30	KILLUT – KILL + [p]UT.
31	NICAM – C in MAIN<.
32	ASLOPE – A + S + LOPE.
33	PANG – PAN + G.
34	NYSTATIN – N.Y. + STATIN[g].

Down
1	BARB – BAR B, which would be second to BAR A.
2	NEVEL – (L + EVEN)<.
3	DIVVY UP – DIVVY + [c]UP.
4	AN ESSAY ON MAN – A[theism] + (NAMES + ANNOYS)*.
5	NOTANDA – NOT + AND + A.
6	ANECDOTALIST – (ATLAS NOTICED)*.
8	RELATE – [p]RELATE.
9	FRAGOR – RAG in FOR.
10	ENTENDER – END in ENTER.
12	GET ON – G + ETON.
17	PEATSHIP – HAPPIEST*. The writer in question is Sir Walter Scott.
19	RED ARMY – (D in REAR) + MY.
20	PATELLA – T[hese] in PAELLA.
21	BHOONA – H in (A NOOB)<.
22	WELKIN – WEL[l] + KIN.
24	LET UP – (PUT + EL)<.
26	HELOT – [t]HE LOT.
28	?TEN – Reduced tax bound to satisfy Scots.

7 comments on “Beelzebub 1,201”

Jake

#1 - Sun 17th Mar 13, 16:59

Does anyone have this weeks Beelzebub they could email me please?

Thanks.

spazpekker@gmail.com

Joan MM

#2 - Sun 17th Mar 13, 21:28

27 Solunar (to do with tides) It’s ‘granulose’, like sand. The heart is ‘anulos’ and ‘bowled over’ means it’s reversed, leading to Solunar. I don’t think ‘heart’ really leads to the majority of the word, but it’s all I came up with!

Joan MM

#3 - Sun 17th Mar 13, 21:32

I think I had ‘sten’ – only because ‘stent’ fits the ‘tax’ part.

Joan MM

#4 - Sun 17th Mar 13, 22:15

Re 27, I should have said that ‘solunar’ wasn’t in Chambers – I got it from one of my other dictionaries (probably the Oxford Dictionary of English).

Dormouse

#5 - Sun 17th Mar 13, 23:26

28dn – I had “sten” too, which Chambers does define as a Scottish word for a bound. (It’s under “stend”.)

I couldn’t parse 7ac, either.

Simon Harris

#6 - Sun 17th Mar 13, 23:35

Thanks everyone. I think I’ve just grasped 7ac. It’s that if FIT were to eat ORFE, you’d have FORFEIT, which is a fine. Very clever – too clever for me!

Dormouse

#7 - Mon 18th Mar 13, 09:11

7ac – obvious, now that it has been explained. Thanks, Simon.

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