Phi Crosswords

phionline.net.nz

  • About me
  • Types of cryptic crossword
    • Solving crosswords
    • Outlets
  • APEX Crosswords
  • My other puzzles
    • BBC Music Magazine crosswords
    • Beelzebub Crosswords
    • Church Times puzzles
    • Enigmatic Variations
    • The European crossword
    • Independent Inquisitor
    • Independent: newspaper
    • Jumbos
    • Magpie
    • Other puzzles
  • Setter’s blogs
  • Book Reviews
  • Cats

Beelzebub 658

ACROSS

1              Very close to dropping last of antique location equipment (5)

6              Pigment, one found in shrub (6)

10           Liqueur all but explosive when soak gets stuck in (8)

11           “Which prison?” said Scots (4)

12           Bitter Judge in practice once backed cutting crime (8)

13           Rate Catholic, possibly, as “governed by priests” (12)

14           Thief initially used an imitation coin (6)

15           Russian city agreed to accept manuscript (4)

17           Antiquarian curtailed thanks after receiving one plant (8)

20           Author to wallow in drink (8)

24           Poet abandons University in Arab city (4)

25           Non-nuclear body attributing some potency to deuterium (6)

27           Treatment for inflammation, with treatment for catarrh in it? About time (12)

28           Animal keeper to face limiting conflict (8)

29           Not sharp? Not very fit (4)

30           Stop Conservative participating in opening event (8)

31           Try and try, being gutless? Quite the reverse (6)

32           Confused situation this writer’s not exposed (5)

DOWN

1              Liveliness to follow actor’s depression? (7, two words)

2              Radio operator turned in on account of Allied landing site? (5)

3              Bad knee treated by doctor initially – no covering here (8, two words)

4              Macdonald, say, heading off to capture our support, squire (12)

5              Egret’s wings associated with another bird always (6)

6              Narrow passage, with more than one craft going up it (6)

7              Maths quantity has me, quite ill, up working (12)

8              Meal? One tucks into most of snack (6)

9              Female delegate in drivers’ group (5)

16           What’ll make drunken fool nuts? (8)

18           Victim of doctor possibly gets fruit (7)

19           Care of horse, say, evident in part of coat (6)

21           Corruption linked to any local club (6)

22           Sheath, gold, needing to go over actress’s head (6)

23           Bears hugging sailor, up in part of Malaysia (5)

26           Expire without body’s heart valve (5)

PDF of puzzle

Solution

 Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Share
Tweet
Pin

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Phi RSS feed

  • RSS - Posts

About me

This is the website of Paul Henderson, who sets crosswords for The Independent (London) under the pseudonyms Phi, for the Daily Telegraph (London) under the pseudonym Kcit, and anonymously for The Times (London) amongst many other outlets. For a more detailed biography see the About Me page.

Blogroll

  • Alberich Crosswords
  • Alchemi's puzzles
  • Anax Crosswords
  • Azed slip
  • Big Dave's Crossword Blog
  • Boatman Cryptics
  • Crossword centenary
  • Crossword Centre
  • Crossword Club
  • Crossword Unclued
  • CrosswordMan: Crossword construction software
  • Crosswords by Hasslethymi
  • Fifteensquared
  • George vs The Listener crossword
  • Guardian Crosswords
  • Hoskins Crossword
  • idothei
  • Independent Crosswords
  • Listen with Others
  • Listener Crossword
  • Magpie Crossword Magazine
  • One Across
  • Peter's Cryptic Crossword Corner
  • Telegraph Crosswords
  • The Stickler Weekly
  • Times Crossword Club
  • Times for the Times

Comments

  • Erin on And Happy New Year
  • Brock on Enigmatic Variations – the next stage
  • Erin on 10/10/2020
  • Erin on Rebranding
  • Erin on Enigmatic Variations – the next stage

Copyright © 2021 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in