Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. It says what it will cost to set a time for it (8)

5. Volumes of printed music one almost cuts through (6) 10. No hope for him, one being held by King George (5) 11. Named Don in team shuffle (9)

12. Stir leg in meat, it could be tough (7)

13. An issue of it in ode form (7)

14. Times of darkness, when things get moving (6)

16. Quite wrong: Lily needs only half p (7)

19. Robin’s killer and what he used to follow the species (7) 21. Not a rocky place to find a horse in (6)

25. Cardboard notice shows parking youngster gets car in (7) 26. Prods it in order to move around happily (7)

28. Space in station for people to scour, once it’s made (9) 29. Such numerals as aren’t figures (5)

30. Calm one with drugs a steed might use (6)

31. Fish dish might reek around its rim (8) DOWN 1. Taking people on – as future spouses? (8)

2. Looking after final entrant at the finish (7)

3. Deserve to be right, but in the wrong time (5)

4. It’s easy to get one’s teeth into such an offer (6)

6. Tell secret to the National Trust if one has assurance (9) 7. Another hearing may occur later with the Inland Revenue (7) 8. Allying oneself with the track one may be shunted onto (6) 9. Momentum created might suit politician in Europe (7)

15. With which to face opposite way if bat run out like this (9) 17. Marches for boys who live at school, one is told (7)

18. What judge pronounces a number of words strung together? (8)

20. Land pen in trouble, having worked out a scheme (7) 22. An embarrassi­ng mistake, having taken dress for a loaf (7) 23. Gaps like the printer’s em and en (6)

24. Stick with a red he can mix (6)

27. A bit of mint, say, to come to grips with (5)

Previous solution

Across: 1. Bubbles 4. Potable 8. Ride 9. Floodlight 11. Intern 12. Forester

14. Admission 15. Fresh 17. Every 18. Calendula 19. Chaffing 21. Basset

23. Ebullience 24. Disc 2S. Prevent 26. Balance.

Down: 1. Barricade 2. Body temperatur­e 3. Sale 4. Profoundly 5. Tulle

6. Begs the question 7. Enter 10. Trusty 13. Disconnect 15 Finial 16. Heartache 19. Cheep 20. False 22. Scab.

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