CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. One stepping out at night, like Lady Macbeth (11)

9. Planetary track, or part of it (5)

10. Farmer Rita upset by being on solid ground (5,5)

11. Sort of troops making heavy weather of it (5)

12. Church girl goes to for the communion cup (7)

14. Strike that’s a resounding success (3)

15. The first victim of fratricide (4)

16. Lags behind the tracks (6)

17. Gulls found in a yard of stabling (4)

21. It is made from stock of a fish pond (4)

22. Country law I am confused by (6)

23. Old festival had its ebb and flow (4)

26. The Spanish back nothing but the Lion (3)

27. Clone he made in formation (7)

29. All things Latin I moan about (5)

30. One competing in trial cannot change outside (10)

31. Heroine didn’t finish Black Beauty, say (5)

32. Trim round seats in the theatre (5,6)

DOWN

2. It’s set in the wall at Charterhouse to keep the door to (5)

3. Minute parts of journalist’s piece written in afterthought (9)

4. First lady fared badly with him looking after the cakes (6)

5. Head square is smaller when taken to hand (8)

6. Harshly criticise the joint (5)

7. Bars old boys use to soak it up (6)

8. A rousing short time in mimicry (11)

12. Patch seat, or it could spell disaster (11)

13. A bar put up for a 31 (4)

18. The gaps it creates for pasta (9)

19. Study weight and inveigh against it (8)

20. A masculine-sounding post (4)

24. They give a party, Norma’s mother having left (6)

25. For a while puts it off as one kowtows (6)

26. Is tied and fortified with spirit (5)

28. Locate endless variation to base eight (5)