GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD (27,474)

ACROSS

1 Primarily suppress flatulence? The French do (7) 5 Story of Dracula, say (7) 10 Mark’s tense opening letter from Crete (6) 11 Light up with Scottish smoker during one row (8) 12 Adult with two 14s around? (3) 13 Playing together with no hesitation in Jewish quarter (6) 14 Issue raised by the Guardian, not the Scotsman, surprisingly (8) 15 One of three patriarchs from two different 5s (5) 16 Smearing teacher, having deployed a bug outside home (9) 19 Apparently nobody’s 12’s brother died keeping goal (9) 21 Crazy about hotel swimming pool location (5) 24 Final appearance of US actress — good! (8) 26 Tip from Antonio Conte about start of play (3,3) 27 Somewhat posh? A topper, perhaps (3) 28 So controlling! (8) 29 Trendy female confronts a setter’s notoriety (6) 30 Running nude not dead hard? Not tried yet (7) 31 Sounding very windy, if one that’ll fly through stormy night shortly (7)

DOWN

2 Weird sisters pollarding birches, say (7) 3 Nearly time to crash? (9) 4 Tempt one lad to stray (4,2) 6 Sort of office layout extremely

unusual in a wine store (8) 7 Sex appeal? A ton, when topless

(5) 8 Cry in support of kid’s mother

that’s not big city material (7) 9 Wee condoms, perhaps, if emerging from Spooner’s boxers (13) 17 Fine and dandy before return

match you lost (9) 18 Slight hill some say is

a monster (8) 20 12 embraces partners getting married — a regular occurrence (3,4) 22 Killer game (7) 23 City can get on top of old Mexican in New York? (6) 25 Turning water green (5)