CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Engine part arrived incomplete, with small handle (8) 5 Not the main feature of nameless bovine Mike imported (1-5) 9 Fruit contains old unknown factors, causing fury (8) 10 Disconnect a French listener bored by piano (6) 12 Level 2, for example (4) 13 Herald had to enter for English broadcast (10) 15 Chum taking a long time to record year’s study of fossils (13) 19 Thoughtless latest fraud by team judge (13) 23 Murmur began in sick person (5,5) 25 Famous knight had ignored pageant (4) 28 Talisman consisting of a cross back to front (6) 29 Old British hero protected four in blackout (8) 30 A lot of people with the Spanish stay here cheaply (6) 31 Bachelor, sedated, drunk, stretched out on this? (8)

DOWN

1 Alpine house extremely churlish American rented (6) 2 Big deer makes bovine sounds close to female (5) 3 Old boat Henry left in this country (4) 4 Baffle what sounds like entire earth! (7) 6 German city denied one champ (5) 7 Coach loved European city’s banked arena (9) 8 Move slowly and sway drunkenly – that’s how to get a word in (8) 11 Check speaker’s rule (4) 14 Drawing’s simple without one (4) 15 They boost trucks touring Middle East (4-2-3) 16 The opposite of 12 old pennies (3) 17 Work on a large stone (4) 18 Husband in M1 crash creating confusion (8) 20 Couple I encountered heading north (4) 21 Give peerage to posh person in Henley banks ignored (7) 22 Inebriated woman breaks record (6) 24 Relative, German one, erected church (5) 26 Stand up for a pay increase (5) 27 Fail to see most of 25 (4)