CROSSWORD

Across

1 Observes a western board game (6)

4 Song composed about the present time (8) 9 A disposition of arms (6) 10 Tender arrangement for Ted and Alice (8)

12 Water rate? (4)

13 Yet I’d be converted to god (5)

14 One that tunnels beneath the breakwater (4)

17 It’s a country, that’s not in dispute (7,5) 20 Deliberate the return of revolutionary spirit - it’s a crime (6,6)

23 They take one over water, or round a point (4)

24 One object of alliance (5) 25 A pronouncedly ungenerous manner (4) 28 Understood the devil came to a lawful end (8) 29 Given hot tips at the barbers? (6)

30 Strange relics to be found in the cathedral (8) 31 Politician in new test case appeals (6)

Down

1 Not working very hard when there’s a quarter missing (8) 2 It’s heard at close of play (8) 3 Sailor to be a French priest (4)

5 Sort of silver currently produced (12)

6 A social problem to be brought up (4)

7 An aggressive female runner (6)

8 Team ends up even below the Spanish (6)

11 An unholy racket! (4,2,1,5) 15 Aim to teach (5)

16 Show regret about evening being cut short (5) 18 Calculating a pudding mixture (6,2)

19 New range of French bombs (8)

21 Signs of interest to astrologers (6)

22 It’s excessively used by composers (6)

26 Fail to get a girl’s address (4) 27 I’d go inside again and get carried away (4)