Herald on Sunday

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Might cite fortune as being forged (11)

9. Classical works may be applied to soap (5)

10. Mention bop as coming from a wellfed condition (10)

11. Two under a Roman standard (5)

12. Gets to parts of the river between bends (7)

14. Such a runner might smuggle the odd drink (3)

15. A deer’s footprints will fit into a small space (4)

16. He sells derv no other way (6)

17. The piece of news that greeted one on return (4)

21. Deserve the milk to curdle (4)

22. Hollows out the stories others haven’t yet got (6)

23. Uncover the sound a Kodiak makes (4)

26. Make applicatio­n of possible use (3)

27. Tidies tan seen as being different (7)

29. Small portable organ for playing Elgar Variations (5)

30. Assumes English ways, since I slag it off (10)

31. It may get hooked into the cards that are left (5)

32. Earth will expand the movement of the sea (11)

DOWN

2. Open pen finishes off growing in Africa (5)

3. Jag, part of which is palatable (9)

4. Turn or sleep without first love if rest is required (6)

5. Time to shift gear and go to live abroad (8)

6. Symbol to carry onto first music (5)

7. Striped cotton from tiger-country (6)

8. Bracket he put between mother and sister (11)

12. Reflect it is right always to chide one (11)

13. Old gossip who didn’t start the pleasure trip (4)

18. Including kinetics and statics for garage hands (9)

19. Chord separately played in opera and gig perhaps (8)

20. A digest of laws in cipher (4)

24. Feast one on large variety of additive numbers (6)

25. It’s not a native North American takeaway (6)

26. Informal language with which to scold one (5)

28. It is as nosy-sounding and as small as every other one (5)

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