Herald on Sunday

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. A tax on the beer-belly (11)

9. Ultraviole­t computer logic symbol suspended from the palate (5)

10. Like fizzy water can, to bread, maybe (10)

11. Double Dutch is perhaps all this to me (5)

12. In the form of three or one card it shuffles (7)

14. Herb, Ophelia said, should wear it with a difference (3)

15. Rounds of gammon, topped and tailed (4)

16. Money received from company in mine constructi­on (6)

17. A girl’s first measuremen­t is the bust (4)

21. Hard as it is to take a hammering (4)

22. Didn’t take all her sad arrangemen­t (6)

23. A part of the lung reversed in the Eboli virus (4)

26. How schoolboy can claim satchel for himself (3)

27. Inclinatio­n to mistake a nightly condition for the listener (7)

29. In which Muscovite going to the country may be housed (5)

30. Revival of old style social NEC’s responsibl­e for (10)

31. She brings endless grief to her husband (5)

32. It’s a sweet kind of dredger (5,6) DOWN

2. Happen to disband RUC company (5)

3. Grievance man moans: how dumb is that? (9)

4. Tincture may be used in a car (6)

5. One shut away that is about to change tenner (8)

6. It’s a crooked signal (5)

7. Artist’s inspiratio­n takes verbal pause in exhibition building (6)

8. When teller may get away with not working (4,7)

12. Maybe it’s not whistled, but it blows like fluff in the wind (11)

13. Constant desire of Italian to go to church (4)

18. Am Irish, a change for a prominent Hindu instructor (9)

19. How and what to vocalise in a monotonous up-and-down way (8)

20. Mindless one separately takes it for breakfast (4)

24. Get to be how it will suit one (6)

25. One who strips an early Bobby (6)

26. They are for prenuptial reading (5)

28. A secret hoard of money, we are told (5)

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