CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 At last I have something for a salad (6)

4 No one is missing full board and lodging (3,5) 9 Justification for release (6)

10 Partition between pigs and birds (8)

12 Part of a table seen in a book (4)

13 He has a simple description for a children’s rhyme (5) 14 Accept the bait of more money (4)

17 Be quite sure you’re very sensitive (4,8) 20 How detectives may collaborate to catch

counterfeiters? (7,5)

23 A touching article or tract (4)

24 Granted a certain amount of price deduction (5) 25 Examination of the mouth? (4)

28 Is he in no hurry to act? (8)

29 A model employer (6)

30 Never eat, perhaps, and weaken (8)

31 Asked for breakfast in bed? (6)

DOWN

1 Order looks not right, yet feels put right (4,4) 2 Announced a number have cleared out (8)

3 It may hold the garden spray (4)

5 Certain European nations can give it new colours (3,9)

Material taken in hand? (4)

More land? (6)

Shattered when thrown (6)

Possibly the pressmen tire and give a misleading account (12)

Where ladies may wear new hats and new coats (5) By itself something which attracts interest, we hear (5)

18 Reacting nervously to a surprise beginning (8) 19 Blend of tea I sold apart from the rest (8) 21 Girl that is a famous film star (6)

22 He holds listeners in a kind of transport (6) 26 East European not quite in bondage (4)

27 The main type of eagle (4) 6 7 8 11

15 16

DOWN

1 Near the sea (8)

2 Derision (8)

3 Shortage (4)

5 At regular intervals (12) 6 Personal assistant (4)

7 Central US state (6) 8 Threefold (6)

11 Hostile (12)

15 Runners in a race (5)

16 Presage (5)

18 Indolence (8)

19 Natural unreasoned impulse (8) 21 Flashy (6)

22 Discouraging influence (6) 26 Lacking zest (4)

27 Game played on horseback (4)