TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Sounds of denial – straight from the horse’s mouth? (6) 4 Show more tolerance, stupid (8) 9 Was set back and deserts (6) 10 Wear ties knotted oddly, so to speak (2,2,4) 12 Listener and learner one’s seen in the Lords (4) 13 Sally going over year in journal (5) 14 Turning, knocks into pole (4) 17 Working as a tailor perhaps is likely to grow on one (5-7) 20 Record playing in the small hours – Mood Indigo ? (12) 23 Get out of this! (4) 24 Cancel fight (5) 25 Exude an air of sadness (4) 28 Prior is member of clergy in religious environment (8) 29 Grubby residence (6) 30 Mockery made of undergarment found in carrier (8) 31 Rodin sculpted number from Rome of blond blue-eyed appearance (6)

Down

1 Reserve we held in capital(3,5) 2 Sign of fashionable writer (8) 3 Pay attention to the editorial, in part (4) 5 Offering help of the orchestra, for example? (12) 6 What one is tasked to do for tax (4) 7 Former wife, French and cuddling politician, offers excuse (6) 8 Try to get aboard cutters (6) 11 It decides about union disputes (7,5) 15 Take off from landing area (5) 16 Get a kick out of men, Joyce? (5) 18 Servant, though elderly, performing multiple tasks (8) 19 One gets car to start after machine breaks down (8) 21 Order posted for tyrant (6) 22 Channel Islands serve up the last word in film (6) 26 Brief note expresses policy(4) 27 Double act that’s now extinct (4)