THE BS CROSSWORD

# 3046

ACROSS

8 Strange ape leg and its covering! (6)

9 Arab group to help London Power Supply Co., I see (3)

10 Rugby half-back in scrum (4)

11 Real income redistributed with a system of rites (10)

12 Joins up four points (4)

13 If I am myself about a French one, I won't catch it (6)

16 At the right, consider a premedication drug (8)

17 Making a submission to a higher authority (7)

18 Succeed or fail (4,3)

22 River net's catch for one whose commitment is upsetting (8)

25 Number reversed, almost never with 50 per cent less (6)

26 A pound to chew (4)

27 Consider move to trap king, giving check (10)

30 Some dark, handsome ruler in the east (4)

31 Partly clipped, it may be curled (3)

32 In the river, getting a b-bbite (6)

DOWN

1 Man for burning, did you say? (4)

2 Improvise something spurious? (4)

3 For the man at the cinema to play on (8)

4 Coal pit worked out as you can see (7)

5 Crier makes a big mistake (6)

6 A bit annoyed about the traverse ? (10)

7 Host bearing novel back to ex-PM (6)

14 A start for Merle Oberon's third multitude (3)

15 Firm not producing (10)

19 Frequency emitted in an open one (8)

20 A drink might make one cough, by the sound of it, at the price (3)

21 Hit rump unexpectedly with great success (7)

23 A it doesn't mean a thing! (6)

24 Play The Trout, to amuse (6)

28 Before day's end, burnish heart-coloured gem (4)

29 Come round and give the cold to everybody (4)