CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1.

Water he uses to show what’s it’s like out (7)

6. Half the year Academicians take to produce a rich tapestry (5)

9. Supplementing part of the week in general (5)

10. Turn mat around in a childish fit of rage (7)

11. A peony-head concealed a plantlouse (5)

12. William Bishop wrote about a poet’s feet (5)

13. Amateur computer enthusiasts sack her willy-nilly (7)

15. Had difficulty in breathing in a maths problem (6)

16. Tremulous sound rupees make in the cash-drawer (5)

18. Tease one with bits of metallic foil (5)

20. Royal House routed when Elizabeth I was gone (5)

21. Under Volpone, a theatrical piece (5)

22. She is monstrous and may be gross about the English (6)

25. A piece cut off gets men bothered (7) 26. Rishi may exchange it for whiskey (5)

27. About four Russian singers and dancers don’t start work-out (5)

28. Shellfish taken by a naval rating on his own (7)

29. If he’s part-employed he’s not resting (5)

30. Abide with the Welsh in the hollow (5)

31 Affinity is of the sort revolutionary is after (7)

Down

1. What medic could sound like a shaman? (5,6)

2. Tincture for bruises the air can provide (6)

3. One has gathered it’s a service (7-8) 4. It is negligent, taking one on out of forgiveness (9)

5. Semi-transparent as my life endlessly turns out (5)

6. How it goes contrary to one’s inclination hearing titan gas about it (7,3,5)

7. It was rejigged and she heard about it (8)

8. Is not pleased to find the baking so doughy (3) 14. Suiting the war, dries it out (6,5)

17. A usurer, Karl, has no such arrangement (4,5)

19. When flying with robin, are moving about (8)

23. Lover might be about to start unrolling a fabric like velvet (6) 24. A county that shortly loses its freshness (5)

27. One can fool a child that the leather’s soft (3)