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)

DOWN

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