Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Officer has a loss of memory and will fall in a heap (8) 5. Haphazard way doorman took nothing out (6) 10. A funeral party is not for the sleeping (5) 11. Fish from the North to put one’s money on (9) 12. A canine indicator (7) 13. A warning about a cut no one can make up (7) 14. Wild parties one has in the gorse perhaps (6) 16. It makes up a chest for big race organisati­on (3-4) 19. Agrees to a fool being sent in (7) 21. Somebody one likes might be fired around 1st November (6) 25. What bird has to put out for the fare (7) 26. How can it get AA to turn out and worry one? (7) 28. A regulation for putting one in the Survey Department (9) 29. Put back in radio, voices appear egg-shaped (5) 30. Fond of clothes, Bess lost her head in the dry (6) 31. Percussion, and brass mixed with mud (4,4)

DOWN

1. He’s the best one to back a cause (8) 2. Not eating one’s dinner when going away? (7) 3. Being watchful when the French enter painting (5) 4. Tries a version of this ironic show (6) 6. Man at mike can run one around (9) 7. Getting an even result with a cartoon (7) 8. Mother joins ruler in manufactur­e (6) 9. Conscienti­ous objector made his choice about the North (7) 15. They may be African or Indian the panel’s uncertain (9) 17. Rings to put out when putting things by (7) 18. Supplement in book or number half added in this way (8) 20. Lads we’d organised to wrap the infant up (7) 22. Inspire one with love for our name like this (7) 23. Manage to pay for being in a fad of a sort (6) 24. It takes shots without firing (6) 27. Presses the things prisoners were clapped in (5)

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