CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. The mind’s working to create robin from it (11)

9. An ear-shell first mentioned without an opener (5)

10. Point a Dane comes from on the opposite side of the globe (10)

11. Abdominal pain will coil around top of coelom (5)

12. Mythical embodiment of the horseman (7)

14. In America one might kill for diamonds (3)

15. That of David is Solomon’s seal (4)

16. Period of prayer on nave constructed for it (6)

17. Tub also used for holding back a large slice of cake (4)

21. They are fine works of creative imagination (4)

22. Elbows out, I’m OK: a blister begins, though (6)

23. Without a run for the mallard (4)

26. Do wrong with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet (3)

27. Remained stuck on the lady: dead wrong about it (7)

29. Wren may have needed the energy to begin again (5)

30. It’s not often at home to visit the place regularly (10)

31. Fit he may be, but his fingers are light (5)

32. Change of heart in gent can be ominous (11)

DOWN

2. Some rubber a selector takes to wipe it out (5)

3. Metal that’s enjoined to rule in song (9)

4. Love affairs that make us roam around (6)

5. To dine out with bile disorder means one can’t eat it (8)

6. The occasion for writing first name a single time (5)

7. Unbroken eggs don’t make it in America (6)

8. What one’s done in the past is follow the best there is (5,6)

12. One in the league will need force at large (11)

13. A service that’s blue (4)

18. Where bread is made from husk, a bee needs nothing else (9)

19. Can one bear to symbolise something? (5,3)

20. A Hebrew measure right away from 9 (4)

24. To be frank, it sounds as if it’s been preserved in sugar (6)

25. On which being filmed in it is secret (6)

26. Is quick to call a writer a bird (5)

28. Each half, the net comes up but, like the food , it’s gone (5)