THE BS CROSSWORD #3197

ACROSS: 8 Cheer in the underground? (4) 9 Make a financial return (5) 10 So, to return to the sweep's 'bread and butter', … (4) 11 Don't worry, Ned's gone outside to find the pests (6) 12 Badly designed bean rail on which nothing will grow (8) 13 Charge for channel guide (8) 15 Attractive number on yacht all at sea (6) 17 Collective farm of Israel (7) 19 My tyres, when damaged, become a problem for a good detective (7) 22 Andrew's final letter before he has breather gets out of hand (6) 24 Gloomy character turning poet against the head (8) 26 Injure by injustice a horse rider - not Scarlet, Eve (8) 28 Prohibition on neckwear may be of help to the builders (6) 30 North Briton hears the wind (4) 31 Rain-protector losing a measure of shade, perhaps ! (5) 32 It's a bit thin (4) DOWN: 1 Bit of a flap maybe when given an honour after half a century (4)

2 Ma, Tom, Bob got together to

create an explosive ? (4,4) 3 Give a good mark for flow at

Cambridge (6) 4 Overindulged, on the second

page getting drunk (7)

5 Guy lost heart, abandoned ranch and finished unhappily in rule by women (8)

6 Finally you shall not appear in a

light cape (6)

7 Deliver item of pottery (4) 14 "There the woman is!" exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)

16 A man's plants ? (5)

18 That Sot Desmond has thrown

up (6,2)

20 Regarding Xmas decoration in

telly's broadcast (8)

21 They tell us how to write

endless bad verse, perhaps (7) 23 Certainly ill-humoured about

the point (6)

25 A real cut in bits on a

halfcentury (6)

27 Marg comes back with a little

weight (4)

29 The others, initially led by gold,

were concerned with self (4)