CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Chooses the best people for Chekhov play? (6-5) Cross one at being reintroduced (5) 9. 10. Used delaying tactics to accord with promise Ted made (10) 11. In being intoxicated I’m as far as I can go (5) 12. How else can it make it pure? (7) 14. Reg will feast one with drink (3) 15. Some celebration to do with naughty child (4) 16. He’s wild about PC, Adam is (6) 17. Confusion exists where servicemen eat together (4) 21. Attempt to keep nothing in Helen’s place (4) 22. Those heavenly twins of mine may be held by American soldier (6) 23. How can a peasant show the back of his neck? (4) 26. Starts round another sheer headland (3) 27. A thrill suffered for sins of a sort (7) 29. Am to introduce Heath to the New World (5) 30. Make one clip lilac and produce a mustard pickle (10) 31. With American backing, his might be a dish from Japan (5) 32. Not knowing where one is desired on it maybe (11)

DOWN

2. Where to put up what’s stolen by the Spanish (5) 3. Sorry to be lying on the ground with a soldier (9) 4. Zoroastrian descendant coming bottom in physical education (6) 5. In case cads should turn to the falls (8) 6. With novice driver inside, will edge along furtively (5) 7. Declare one a defaulter in a field event (6) 8. It is due to tin – or absence of one – that makes poverty (11) 12. British Lower House seen to differ as to nous (6,5) 13. Objectives one doesn’t go on with (4) 18. Destroy micro-organisms in series lit in such a way (9) 19. Tsar’s cavalry would plunder within a certain distance inside India (8) 20. Bargain over the beer-barrels (4) 24. Is the South to nose about being so prim? (6) 25. The business that is extramarital (6) 26. Swift attack made when quietly enheartened (5) 28. Suppose nothing will waste away (5)