CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Verse is edited as one goes over the work done (7)

6. Father left the brushman to bury one (5)

9. Tea may not quite finish, but it’s gone (5)

10. What sort of all-heal can a pea be? (7)

11. One’s awe of being right among the departed (5)

12. It purées food like white radish (5)

13. Bird with yen to get back to London dialect (7)

15. In late, so it might bring it on as a consequence (6)

16. Credit me for getting around one felony (5)

18. Drink one habitually takes is not out of the ordinary (5)

20. Nothing is as it might appear in the desert (5)

21. Fit one out, out of pique (5)

22. Generous use of the whip when about six (6)

25. The most remote former sort of metre (7)

26. Drive the sort of muscle that moves (5)

27. After gamma it is misdealt (5)

28. It appears, in an entrance, to perturb one (7)

29. Mass of metal converted to gin (5)

30. Something to be copied by one on the catwalk (5)

31. So Mike’s turning to the Innuit (7)

DOWN

1. Is, in a grasping way, a parlous, icy form of it (11)

2. City of glass and turpentine (6)

3. Miss scandal Cole put about through its slower delivery (6-5,4)

4. Sordid aspect of demise, say (5,4)

5. Porter has to be robust (5)

6. It shows the ascent of magic in the subcontinent (6,4-5)

7. The press sat around, only to intrude on one (8)

8. Rat only half used to clean the drains (3)

14. They curse, which helps Amber’s conversion (11)

17. Count out how many men are true right away (9)

19. Live nude may be revealed to the public (8)

23. Don’t panic: take the wind out of their sails! (6)

24. Part of the journey for one to mount theatrically (5)

27. Be a bit stupid when light is low (3)