Manawatu Standard

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Being founded on table-turning, dishes it out (11)

9. Get to the East through 23 of a sort (5)

10. One poem, bliss though it might be, can’t be done (10)

11. Record presentati­on may start with its leaves looking blank (5)

12. One producing a line for a bowler (7)

14. A revolution­ary sort of wine (3)

15. Hordeolum identified in a hasty examinatio­n (4)

16. Is more hard-up than the go-between (6)

17. It breathes at the rate of four to the pint (4)

21. A line of work to be taken in by the Sappers (4)

22. An antelope: one a palm might conceal (6)

23. Being roguish, it may go over one’s head (4)

26. It may be one’s destiny to be put up for auction (3)

27. A light case that, in Lent, ran amok (7)

29. There are mournful notes coming back from the gridiron (5)

30. What’s growing that one might be given to eat (10)

31. Waken one up, or return to employment (5)

32. Arranged new timetable for being rescued, held in a peculiar way (11)

DOWN

2. About a thousand little devils may keep one short (5)

3. Now barber may turn on the Kodiak (5,4)

4. Take out a policy at home to be certain (6)

5. Could Brian hie from Ireland? Yes! (8)

6. Awful fear of being right among the departed (5)

7. Talk at length about a timid person (6)

8. Court steward, male one, would branch out (11)

12. U-boat flag was not up to the mark (11)

13. One right to take on a metal club (4)

18. Detail man shows to be constructe­d of thin layers (9)

19. Get-up ass assumes as he steals another’s limelight (8)

20. Those attending match one won’t let out of college (4)

24. Entertainm­ent in the open where streets meet in town (6)

25. Take a firm hold on a sitting of eggs (6)

26. Bar fifty for all time (5)

28. A light wash of hairdressi­ng solution (5)

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