Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Plunder to find out how old solid medicament is (7) 5. A fitchet will lope around with a feline (7) 9. Former wife might cable it, getting easily worked up (9) 10. A grown male will leave the fruit (5) 11. Direct one’s course to the young ox (5) 12. Fighting with Lew, string it out (9) 13. Tommy Atkins engaged by King Edward as a plunderer of enemy ships (9) 16. Put faith in a 23 this for one’s investment (5) 17. First trader to blend teas with this flavour (5) 18. Did one’s brains, thought hard, and was beaten (9) 20. Crams hair into the fauteuils (9) 23. Strong material for body representing the workers (5) 25. Upset the liquid, and this will carry the flame (5) 26. Space traveller who turns to AA perhaps (9) 27. Make turncoat act to a piece of music (7) 28. Go down for change of scene between one day and another (7)
DOWN
1. Exercise that journalists take up (5-2) 2. It’s a cruel way of making money (5) 3. Take it in turns to change the ante maybe (9) 4. More power to what’s crooked! (5) 5. Had rather seen how quietly the referee went wrong (9) 6. Fifty-one on the motorway? It is as fast as one can go (5) 7. Unceasing, the way it has lain: count it out (9) 8. It may strike one that one was using one’s brain (7) 14. He can’t sleep in casino, Monsieur, like this (9) 15. Mexican dish Ena, a child, can prepare (9) 16. Quivering mouse not quite truly moving about (9) 17. In conveyance, rat isn’t to be disturbed (7) 19. It signified how it was done and finished by Edward (7) 21. Turkish sweet has some lethal value (5) 22. When full up, took a seat with the editor (5) 24. One sort of game for somebody just like one (5)
Previous solution
Across: 1. Contrast 5. Stylus 10. Coven 11. Dismantle 12. Tallest 13. Reeling 14. Italic 16. Scalpel 19. Display 21. Craven 25. Tambour 26. Endemic 28. Cortisone 29. Cairo 30. Silver 31. Aesthete.
Down: 1. Cocktail 2. Novella 3. Rinse 4. Sedate 6. Traveller 7. Lattice 8. Sledge 9. Ostrich 15. Improvise 17. Patriot 18. Anecdote 20. Immoral 22. Vampire 23. Stocks 24. Severe 27. Ducat.