CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,211

Across

1 Anticipates a guru’s breaking down (6)

4 ‘The Mount’ – a suitable address for a cardinal (8) 9 It’s spent on railway food (6) 10 Rations for the fleet? (4,4) 12 What it’s like in the Kalahari Desert (4) 13 Sort of trap for a bird (5) 14 Folk from Gaelic land (4) 17 He upsets some scholar about the beginning of term (12)

20 Fulfil a promise to retain just a single weapon (4,4,4)

23 A learner in the old US university (4)

24 Cheeky display of embarrassment (5)

25 Present given in the recession (4)

28 Entitled people, one is seen in London hospital (8)

29 Pound that is required to join club (6)

30 Don’t touch without even considering (3,5)

31 Embracing a good man, mine’s no longer in his prime (4,2)

Down

1 Acclamation of unusual papal custom (8) 2 Neon? (8) 3 It’s unusual to be not well done (4) 5 Be deadly serious in usury? (4,8) 6 Stagger up, deprived of one’s wits (4) 7 One old silly (6) 8 Coming to a conclusion? Close (6) 11 To complain so may be common all over the world (12) 15 Fielder caught a number of balls (5) 16 Twist of fate’s causing blow-out (5) 18 Rather a handful, eh? (8) 19 He daren’t upset one who follows (8) 21 It represents the sound of a percussion instrument (6) 22 Cambridge college has tip-top wine (6) 26 A love for indigo (4) 27 It won’t be seen as a boundary (2-2)