CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Nothing to pay: marchers changed direction, didn’t pedal (4-7)

8. Use last of tribe, deceased, to puff one up (5)

9. Won’t one do well, to step into another’s shoes! (7)

10. Let’s get upset about bits to make up only to knock down (7)

11. Sort of orange showing original attachment (5)

12. They make holes somehow sure, with age that’s endless (6)

14. In which one may be just off: not the sleep of the just! (3-3)

18. Coat may be one of many colours (5)

19. Chest for a son nicknamed Lofty? (7)

21. He, taken in by wrong owner, is neither here nor there (7)

23. One at the heart of the labyrinth is certainly corny (5)

24. Where sloucher is told to take hand, worse off financially (3,2,6)

DOWN

1. Flower that smells is rising in a reef anyhow (7)

2. When wiping things out, are up to vocalise (7)

3. What the East is central to is a crop... (5)

4. ... but what the East gets is a flower festival (6)

5. Girl who might aid uncle without finishing (7)

6. Alter colour from red, yesterday (3)

7. Show clothes for a paragon (5)

13. Fall-back, something to look forward to Sappers initiated (7)

15. Iron point for writing to moisten with the tongue (7)

16. Wages given to people on fourth of month as settlement (7)

17. It is emphatic it’s a fairy-like creature (6)

18. Doesn’t find breathing easy, covering legs (5)

20. Low dance form in which one is consigned to oblivion (5)

22. International health body doctored for children’s viewing (3)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Boundary 5. Pester 10. Ocean 11. Follicles 12. Bar-bell

13. Mailing 14. Ashore 16. Mélange 19. Boggled 21. Benign

25. Imposed 26. Example 28. Listeners 29. Scour 30. Radish

31. Drophead

Down: 1. Browbeat 2. Unearth 3. Dense 4. Ruffle 6. Eliminate

7. Telling 8. Resign 9. Climber 15. Registers 17. Peddled 18. Interred

20. Opposed 22. Improve 23. Pillar 24. Censor 27. Aesop