CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Have doubts about an apothecary’s weight (7)

6. It is indicative of it originating in India (5)

9. Compare it with elk in the making of it (5)

10. Mute set out for a bagpipe (7)

11. Led up to it being two beats in the bar (5)

12. A measure of a scheme of versification (5)

13. Contend for a favourite to come round (7)

15. A popular company with the weak and frail (6)

16. 27 Down is made at a stroke (5)

18. Abdominal pain company gets half licked (5)

20. Indian ascetic sees if Ark can be moved (5)

21. Lug in and unroll a long piece of cloth (5)

22. Some send earrings to make themselves beloved (6)

25. A cat from Thailand (7)

26. None less than this stale version (5)

27. Copper needing change of air goes to the papal court (5)

28. Part of a serial is included in a sort of lyric poem (7)

29. One who manages to be a dealer in horses (5)

30. Tomorrow will become it after midnight (5)

31. There’s just one tank-top per vest (7)

DOWN

1. They only do half the rounds (11)

2. Take back an unaccented summary (6)

3. Transferring of emotions to things is piteous, and it’s wrong (8,7)

4. A nature spirit the French repeatedly meant to change (9)

5. Fish may be beneath sole (5)

6. It exempts one from action if mined in such a way (15)

7. Silly fellow used to measure the oil (8)

8. A letter to insert into a script (3)

14. Move trip men organise as this will make it better (11)

17. Singers emerging from gross nest (9)

19. Snake is led about, tights having run (8)

23. To shrink in horror at a gun’s kick (6)

24. Felicitous as Larry is said to be (5)

27. Stop filming a cross passage (3)