THE BS CROSSWORD

# 3124

ACROSS

8 Repaired leak with a vegetable (4) 9 ... statuette, but left no mark! (5) 10 Letters of credit (4) 11 Somehow got round youth leader inside who was amusing himself (6) 12 Despoil'd, roughed up and poorly balanced (3-5) 13 Miss funeral service held on island (8) 15 Corpses resulting from a quarrel on board ! (6) 17 Star's angle I articulate silently (taking nothing away) after the street guide (7) 19 Head of flower, partly developed, that catches insects (7) 22 Blindly searches for dog-end with thick lines (6) 24 However charitable, that's enough to make one flushed with anger (3,5) 26 I am getting the digs not heartlessly if approaching (8) 28 A yacht capsized in old China (6) 30 Tender, we hear, this King of Mercia? (4) 31 Lending money to American, then bury the headless (5) 32 I can raise when not out of it (2,2)

DOWN

1 Observed on the very good Bach cantata, all trio endings (4) 2 Is rude strangely and hesitantly with the matter remaining (8) 3 Hesitate to have a globe that is noted, for a change (6) 4 In the atlas, is it cornetshaped ? (7) 5 Offer to stay, also worried (8) 6 Half bids small in islands of Alice Town (6) 7 Daintily pleasing the disheartened copper first (4) 14 Elevator said to be used in the bathroom (5) 16 Fatheaded rules are mistakes (5) 18 Test a new shoot on one's tongue (5-3) 20 Make off LI at this, perhaps (4,4) 21 Upset rum truffle (7) 23 It's important to have a friend round the edge ? (6) 25 Another foot and this boy's seen back around city from which I must disappear (6) 27 Bungle the job of keeping hands warm ? (4) 29 Eager, but needing five to help out (4)