CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 17,288

ACROSS

1 After modelling, both bear dressing gown (8) 5 Wading bird

fluttering at cove (6) 9 Reg lying for a change in a cautious manner (8) 10 Old students from a liberal university in Malta in retreat (6) 12 Declare grave risks?

Not altogether! (4) 13 Daring kiss made in

traffic jam? (10) 15 New pranks I’ll break up round rare garden feature, say (4,9) 19 Airy doctrines needing revision? That’s optional (13) 23 Job in residence? (10) 25 Revered figure by ordinary area in classical portico (4) 28 Hardened health worker with no end of patients in papers (6) 29 Journalist aware of note about militants’ leader in Canadian city (8) 30 Longing in husband and a son to find African mammals (6) 31 A chart’s devised about minute thing used in judo? (5,3)

DOWN

1 Lion, perhaps, starts to breed in general captivity and thrive (3,3) 2 Colour shown in painting,

exceptionally (5) 3 Regretted odd parts of

route over day (4) 4 Bad-tempered bachelor with the Italian facing financial debts (7) 6 Highly rate bend in area

between hills (5) 7 Cab merely diverted in

Surrey town (9) 8 Attempt to contain quarrel

exposing bishop for deceit (8) 11 Controversy in prison (4) 14 Royal’s first person in here,

essentially, for large jug (4) 15 Acute loss at war for

a hopeless ideal (4,5) 16 Greek character has

broken hip (3) 17 Approaching Tyneside

on a river (4) 18 Reprimand male over

entering Danish ground (8) 20 U.S. rock band additionally

acquiring lyricist lately (4) 21 Working arrangement requested by a customer? (2,5) 22 Thing that attracts rising figure to support publication (6) 24 Religious depiction that is

kept in educational body (5) 26 Carry money as

symbolic item (5) 27 Mix cast (4)