CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. The ban antecedent of Opus Dei (7)

6. Tree of mixed race (5)

9. Two-wheeled vehicle not to be reversed to Georgia (5)

10. One ironing the newspapers before even reading starts (7)

11. Where race is concerned, get off to a new start (5)

12. Bone in the ear one will almost impress by stamping (5)

13. Another get-together on an island in the Indian Ocean (7)

15. A country that is not in a state of turmoil (6)

16. Conjecture may be of use in the Guineas (5)

18. It was no good turning to Poona in WWl (5)

20. Some masons will come to rest in a fixed position (5)

21. When everybody plays it back, tut about its inclusion (5)

22. He does wrong to rinse it out around end of ablution (6)

25. Royal privileges found with abandon, separately (7)

26. Receive knowledge that will bring in money beyond fifty (5) 27. In France he serves to put no end of fuel in it (5)

28. Type designer is inclined to put them in his fount (7)

29. Old money produced off the top of one’s head (5)

30. Schoolmaster has right to enter in school recess (5)

31. It never stops the French being plural in objectives (7)

DOWN

1. Taking advantage in rump options (11)

2. Sketched, but came to a halt (4,2)

3. Selling drugs, sulk once making too much use of advantage (7,4,4)

4. Binding cord used to repair net (9)

5. Bite to eat when sick one left to an upset inside (5)

6. Where trains assembled on planet, any grill had its use (11,4)

7. Dim-sighted, see blur in data processing perhaps (8)

8. In Gnosticism, a power emanating from the supreme deity (3)

14. Dresses up with an alternative form of cross-ways (11)

17. Gloomy way unit earns some change (9)

19. Putative Terriers left Northern Ireland instead of punishment (8)

23. Hardened clay will burn fiercely, she says with modesty (6)

24. Officer with crown has younger brother at school (5)

27. Local back-up given to bandits initially (3)