CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. If you want machine to work, step on it! (7)

6. Momentary flash by first gentleman dressing (5)

9. Go driving or go after vehicle test (5)

10. One of refined taste turns to pure ice (7)

11. Tree that shakes like a feather (5)

12. Stocking any long part (5)

13. Like onions may get drunk (7)

15. Intelligent church-leader at the bar (6)

16. Clerk in India given about a bob, nothing more (5)

18. As fine a brown as pie can be (5)

20. Of ring-shaped moulding in sweet or ice (5)

21. In Scotland exempt one from complex emergency (5)

22. CD may be the best that’s been done (6)

25. Dog I base around New Jersey (7)

26. Advanced nothing, it being played slowly (5)

27. A hip flask’s second sort of small bottle (5)

28. A following month in Maine capital (7)

29. Either change thorn for D, or duck (5)

30. Used to be dressed when weary (5)

31. Former imprisonment and cure it brought about (7)

DOWN

1. Very French casual onlookers lose by being encroachers (11)

2. Clearly show how Venice was constructed (6)

3. So it could have two shots at hyphenating a name (6-9)

4. May have alterations made and need blame to be shifted (9)

5. Nicked a surplice (5)

6. Rug under last Aga shaken for its sweetener (10,5)

7. One learning how he’ll make things better (8)

8. 100 mph in the world of fashion (3)

14. How it may rain headlong (11)

17. How chairman sits, having fallen from ship (9)

19. How odd to be belonging exclusively to one (8)

23. Complete agreement but not, however, harmony (6)

24. Dines out in a way that’s derogatory (5)

27. Remove the stone from a mine (3)