THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Tom let loose on the ranch (6)
4 Say I’d go after a government subsidy (5,3) 9 Honour I dream about (6)
10 He keeps a servant (8)
12 Standard feature of Saturn or Mars (4) 13 Drive from a tee into open country (5) 14 An element of quartz in crystal (4)
17 A leading actor in a Western? (8,4)
20 They rise or fall to some degree (12) 23 Scandinavian cooked loaf (4)
24 He may be wed in the end (5)
25 Wise men having a different image out East (4)
28 Type of vandalism that is so effective! (8) 29 Cultural centre? (6)
30 See 16 Down
31 Rebel about some measure of power (6)
DOWN
1 Relatively close? (8)
2 Twenty-four hours from now (8)
3 Learning a new role (4)
5 What an expert in depreciation makes? (3,5,2,2) 6 An amphibian to notice (4)
7 A free family woman (6)
8 Manage to show the way (6)
11 Hop out of town (7,5)
15 Feeling irritable? (5)
16 and 30 Across: Caught fighting? (5,8)
18 Andy’s one to provide a non-committal answer (3,3,2)
19 Revolutionary paper money (8)
21 An active talker maybe but the talk is idle (6) 22 Where in Africa one supports the law to some degree (6)
26 Bespectacled greeting in American state (4) 27 Overweight Oriental with fortune (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Make a start (6) 4 Discursive (8)
9 Decisive moment (6) 10 Renovate thoroughly (8) 12 Stiffly formal (4)
13 An eccentric (5) 14 Despicable (4) 17 Duplicitous person (6-6) 20 Abandon inhibitions (3,7,2) 23 Denote (4)
24 A narcotic drug (5) 25 Business enterprise (4) 28 Left to choice (8) 29 Fencing sword (6) 30 Obdurate (8)
31 Noticeably cold (6)
DOWN
1 Wildly adventurous act (8) 2 Small fashion shop (8) 3 Sway to and fro (4) 5 Beneficial (12) 6 Leafless (4)
7 To some extent (2,1,3) 8 Ship’s kitchen (6) 11 Foremost position (5,2,5) 15 Modify (5) 16 Horizontal (5)
18 Duly authorised (8)
19 At an earlier time (8) 21 Without lumps (6) 22 Influential circumstance (6) 26 An affected attitude (4) 27 Confused muddle (4)