This must have been my quickest completion of a Beelzebub since I began solving them some months ago.
Having said that, it would have been even quicker without 15dn, my last entry, where I knew neither the fruit nor the Portuguese stew. Fortunately a wildcard search of Chambers came to my rescue, though that tome, and Collins, only gives it as a Brazilian dish so I had to confirm the Portugal reference via Oxford on-line.
Across
1 Privileged one turns out mild (6-7)
PIGEON-LIVERED – an anagram (turns out) of PRIVILEGED ONE
9 Arab nipped by fly in African city (6)
HARARE – AR (Arab) in (nipped by) HARE (fly)
10 Sticky substance Bill left inside plant (7)
TREACLE – AC (bill) L (left) in (inside) TREE (plant)
12 Line best represented with trio revealing words of operas (9)
LIBRETTOS – L (line) plus an anagram (represented) of BEST TRIO
13 Edges of the sword will do for tent (6)
TEEPEE – T[h]E (edges of the) EPEE (sword)
14 Shield’s pierced? Death interrupted by column of soldiers (7)
ENFILED – END (death) around (interrupted by) FILE (column of soldiers)
16 German fellow still visible in mirror? (4)
OTTO – it would look the same when viewed via a mirror
18 Supports reduced payment (3)
FEE – FEE[t] (supports reduced)
19 Aluminium and carbon found around carpet of certain igneous rocks (7)
ALKALIC – AL (aluminium) C (carbon) around (found around) KALI (carpet)
21 Letter recalled in regular letters from others (3)
RHO – O[t]H[e]R[s] (regular letters from others) reversed (recalled)
24 Briton overseas penning English lines (4)
POEM – POM (Briton overseas) around (penning) E (English)
25 Recalled nothing venerable about US state (7)
NEVADAN – NADA (nothing) VEN (venerable) reversed (recalled)
26 Annoyed about doctor giving bad news? (6)
SOMBRE – SORE (annoyed) around (about) MB (doctor)
27 Who’s seduced no curates? (or so the church hopes!) (9)
COURTESAN – an anagram (seduced) of NO CURATES with an extended definition
28 Officer penetrating unbroken protected area (7)
SHELTER – LT (officer) in (penetrating) SHEER (unbroken)
29 Oxygen concentrated in Danish city (6)
ODENSE – O (oxygen) DENSE (concentrated)
30 Crikey! Fellow in garden running wild – dreadful waste (4,3,6)
HECK AND MANGER – HECK (crikey) plus MAN (fellow) in an anagram (running wild) of GARDEN
Down
1 Start to promote popular old fellow in his extraordinarily close contest (5,6)
PHOTO FINISH – P[romote] (start to promote) HOT (popular) O (old) F (fellow) IN plus an anagram (extraordinarily) of HIS
2 Scottish piper / a welcoming figure? (7)
GREETER – double def. – greet=pipe=weep
3 One’s initially aggrieved about wing having specific windows (8)
ORIELLED – O[ne’s] (one’s initially) plus RILED (aggrieved) around (about) EL (wing)
4 Thorny shrub to happen to puncture cheek (6)
NEBECK – BE (to happen) in (to puncture) NECK (cheek)
5 She‘s not once associated with anger? (5)
IRENE – IRE (anger) NE (not once) – and according to Chambers the name is derived from the Greek for ‘peace’ so perhaps a semi-&lit
6 Chairs without covers? Avoid café (3,2)
EAT IN – [s]EATIN[g] (chairs without covers)
7 The Spanish guide for embroiderers is in another place (9)
ELSEWHERE – EL (the Spanish) SEW HERE (guide for embroiderers)
8 Device (dead modern, possibly) re-evaluated tree (11)
DENDROMETER – D (dead) plus an anagram (possibly) of MODERN plus an anagram (re-evaluated) of TREE – another extended definition as it is an instrument for measuring trees
10 Tester blocked by theatre surgeon? (9)
TREPANNER – TANNER (tester) around (blocked by) REP (theatre) – tanner=tester=sixpence
11 English gathering around church after new year festival, opposing neighbours? (9)
TETE BECHE – TET (new year festival) E (English) BEE (gathering) around CH (church)
15 A daughter brought in fruit and stew from Portugal (8)
FEIJOADA – A D (daughter) in (brought in) FEIJOA (fruit)
17 Programme about to outlaw primitive medical tool (7)
PROBANG – PROG (programme) around (about) BAN (to outlaw)
20 Part of coil is something with great flexibility (6)
LISSOM – hidden in (part of) ‘coiL IS SOMething’
22 Sailor’s to drop off covering on rear of deck (5)
CAULK – CAUL (covering) [dec]K (rear of deck) – ‘drop off’ as in ‘snooze’
23 Some palomino ate nothing of nosebag contents? (5)
OATEN – hidden in (some) ‘palominO ATE Nothing’
Fortunately I remembered 15dn from the last time that word appeared here – 1285 last October I see from here. That time we had to enter the fruit and the stew was the word play. And the first letter was unchecked which made it harder to find searching the dictionary.
I’m confused. The paper copy of the puzzle I have says a “stew from Brazil”, whereas Chambers just says it’s a Portuguese dish.
My copy said Brazilian and the enumeration for 1a was just 13. I can only assume I got a different print run to Gaufrid.
Hi Dormouse & flashling
Sorry for the confusion regarding 15dn. I receive an advance copy of the puzzle and this clue was obviously changed before publication in the paper, presumably so that it lined up with the definition in all three of the usual references rather than just Oxford on-line.
Dormouse, my copy of Chambers says Brazilian, as does Collins. Only Oxford on-line gives “A Brazilian or Portuguese stew …”.
Looks like they’ve changed it in the infamous 13th edition.
Dormouse
I don’t know what is in the 13th Ed. because I don’t have a copy. However, both my 11th Ed. (hardback) and 12th Ed. (electronic) have ‘Brazilian’.
I wonder why they changed it?
My copy of 12th is more or less confetti, but I still ad the 11th and I put the pages side by side, just to convince myself I wasn’t misremembering. Definitely changed.