CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1.

Where tents are pitched in the mist, pace it out (8)

5. Account repeated by one with a wattle (6)

10. Ship coming out of a tunnel in Eritrea (5)

11. Is as scrupulous as one bound by monastic vows (9)

12. She comes to a fishy end (7)

13. It is a rotary engine in brute form (7)

14. Enjoy the flavour of a gentleman’s appetiser (6)

16. They are the characters that make up correspondence (7)

19. Grazing land rates up for renewal (7)

21. It’s a food seed, one can tell, in preparation (6)

25. It is not affected as it’s neither sharp nor flat (7)

26. The brainbox shows how rum one can be (7)

28. It is necessary to request one, one might put it (9)

29. Some soup, a starter of macaroni, etc (5) 30. May be sown when chosen for the tournament (6)

31. Lets tune like this disturb one (8) DOWN

1. From California Maria might get squid (8)

2. It’s not animal or vegetable, the 10 Ma takes out (7)

3. Rhode Island, say, has gone to the country (5)

4. A string of invective from one in commerce (6)

6. In a trice get a fag out (9)

7. A crook cries — or so it might appear (7)

8. The solution could be as Wren devised it (6)

9. A confused mass of litter first put in a boat (7)

15. Gloomy planet seen in the East (9) 17. Barred structure still to be reassembled (7)

18. American seafood party giving me a black aspect (8)

20. An old piece of furniture, a quaint sort of end-piece (7)

22. Jumper with cardigan that isn’t wet anyhow (7) 23. Is sleeping soundly perhaps (6)

24. Get the scene right and put it on TV (6)

27. There’s more than enough drink around a politician (5)