CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Orchestrated and recorded (6) 4 Sweet account I would

pursue no further (4,4) 9 Improves

compensation (6) 10 What’s inside is revealed by bird in nest building (8) 12 State in readiness to

move in agreement (4) 13 Have a good career as a

traveller (2,3) 14 Measure police service’s taken with energy (4) 17 I must enter complicated reading test, but go to pieces (12) 20 One looking for scraps

may show it (12) 23 In a high position

at work (4) 24 Want, we hear, to work

as a baker (5) 25 Fool left in bed (4) 28 Pains gripping sick

Greek hero (8) 29 Selected socks needed

in cold North (6) 30 Reduction, as included in order (8) 31 Pattern of Campbell being a follower of Plymouth? (6)

DOWN 1 Stock reaction to panic (8) 2 Not very bright getting

on top of the players (8) 3 Boy in a whirl (4) 5 Harvard graduate shows hypocrisy on a ship with Scotsman (12) 6 It’s not fair — to be kept in it? (4) 7 Knocked down in

rude dancing (6) 8 Succeeded in exam in oral history (6) 11 They advance and charge (12) 15 Mountains in Arabian desert (5) 16 Begin to show surprise (5) 18 Welsh island fish definitely looking up (8) 19 Words which carry conviction? (8) 21 Brief message about an unfounded report (6) 22 This style of architecture had its points (6) 26 Fuel designed that deals with smoke problem (4) 27 Deity that’s witnessed in purest horror (4)