Beelzebub 1314

[doctordolittle]

Just a few left.

Taste bad after heating once? Go without grub (6, 2 words) GROWT_
Invasion? Note hangers-on impeding it (7) INB_RST is surely INBURST = NB + URS inside IT but what does URS have to do with hangers-on?
King nearly coming round on diamonds in game of patience (8) K_ON_I_E is I think KLONDIKE but again the derivation escapes me
No longer deluded, releasing book in 40 days L_NT is surely LENT but why?

[doctordolittle]

I have derived KLONDIKE from K(ing) + LIKE (= nearly) around ON D(iamonds)

[Lie-in King]

(b)Lent - no 'b(ook)', past tense of obscure meaning of 'blend' (to delude)

[doctordolittle]

I thought it probably was, but blend meaning delude is not in my dictionary. Thanks

I look forward to your thoughts on the rest!!

[slaney]

If note =N in IT, BURS= hangers-on -alternative spelling of burr.

[Lie-in King]

Nice one, slaney - much better than the pitiful effort I was about to try having been fixated on 'NB'!

[doctordolittle]

BUR instead of BURR, OK. That leaves
Taste bad after heating once? Go without grub (6, 2 words) GROWT_

[writesbad]

I think it is "N" for note, with BURS (alt spelling of "burrs") for hangers-on, inside IT

[slaney]

Thanks LIK - still stuck on first one though...

[Lie-in King]

Grow to - 'go' (without; around) 'rowt' (alt. sp. of 'rout'; to grub up)

From Chambers -

grow to ... (of milk) to stick to the pan and develop a bad taste in heating (so prob. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, II:2: obs)

[slaney]

Ahh ha - rechecking definitions you think you know in Chambers always worth while!

[doctordolittle]

Great answer, LIK!!! Looking forward to next week. Over and out