CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stick fast, or else split (6) 4 Securing, or else collapsing (8) 10 Brought back, or else shrouded again (9)

11 Rent large facility (5) 12 Drug user had hope dashed (7) 13 Line stops ruffians (7) 14 Moving quickly, or else firmly fixed (4)

15 Made and discharged, or else concealed (8) 20 Approval, or else penalty (8) 21 Remaining, or else gone (4) 24 Study bug pierced by head of pin (7) 27 Cheese sandwiches fool club of golfers (7) 28 Springy movement, or else restriction (5) 29 Supervision, or else lapse of vision (9)

30 Quit, or else inked a new deal (8)

31 Built up, or else torn down audibly (6)

DOWN

1 Larceny corrupted the craft (3,5)

2 People fleeing the real spies cast rocks (9)

3 Six compete with northern portrayer of Scarlett (6)

5 Source of milk displayed in loud derision (5) 6 Power unit almost depleted upon going inside gear box (8)

7 Arab leaders of industry receptive about quaint idea (5) 8 Oil country by the sound (6) 9 Treading unstable slope (8)

16 Fan taking in live pop (4,4) 17 Grass seed scattered for horse competitions (9) 18 Likely loser grounded out (8) 19 Losing head, stoutest editor swore (8)

22 Wood bee gets into clock (6) 23 Girl’s name for a war god that’s funny (6) 25 Smashes garden pests (5) 26 Treasure chest’s back-gad (5)