CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Drawer of circular form on 64-square board (11)

9. What one habitually drinks is common (5)

10. Star, nature of which shows where to eat out (10)

11. It is the key-note to a gin mixer (5)

12. Plays around in a national air display (3-4)

14. One may forget what one has to say when thirsty (3)

15. Only slight chance that one will lose weight (4)

16. Rank that managed the detectives (6)

17. It is almost hard work to count in Germany (4)

21. At any time in eternity (4)

22. Laser one used for play in instalments (6)

23. Person at range is the principal one left (4)

26. An extra hobby evidently required (3)

27. One who flies back from Virginia to a riot perhaps (7)

29. It moves the cursor and gives one a black eye (5)

30. Foresee the caper one will have to head (10)

31. The 5th or 7th unit between the poles (5)

32. Then in great form, it is minatory (11)

DOWN

2. Sort of dean, not a metropolitan (5)

3. A simpleton might, a toe being twisted (9)

4. A well-behaved prisoner may be deserving of one’s confidence (6)

5. Wanders at random as red men might (8)

6. The somewhat crazy taste Hazel shows? (5)

7. It’s the underground way to make the Anglo-french connection (6)

8. Back a miller, otherwise he may extort hush-money (11)

12. 4th non-u advent soon to take place (11)

13. No southerner should be such a jerk (4)

18. Unconditional inheritance for which the charge is easy (3,6)

19. Is cured of holding for example an originator (8)

20. The handwriting of a duke (4)

24. Unique, headless sort of energy of horses (6)

25. As if a head carpenter would make a nameboard! (6)

26. Like to have a wager about a horrid person (5)

28. If German, it’s the North Sea (5)