CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Birth of baby received by batsman (8)
5. Boat, right, after cetaceous mammal? (6)
10. He has something put by, except for the right (5)
11. Going after the fans? (9)
12. Chafing can produce big burn (7)
13. Getting there one makes no progress! (7)
14. It whitens when Johann Sebastian takes in the French (6)
16. Fresh quality of news, and news the West has abandoned (7)
19. Took it, mass due for new arrangement (7)
21. Eros loved her for her soul (6)
25. He’s left something late: for example, the East? (7)
26. Score at start of tennis will show great liking for everyone (4,3)
28. County hero, risky as it may have been (9)
29. The board might bleat about it (5)
30. ‘Up’ to this old part of 28 (6)
31. American politician could react with a Mod (8)
DOWN
1. Say how it is beside somehow including credit (8)
2. Attracting fondness for veal, lob turned out (7)
3. Aida, he wrote, hiding in cover, disguised (5)
4. Shelter one who is fleeing abandoned by the East once (6)
6. Bluffs Robin and lowers an eyelid (9)
7. Hangs about store with the Italian perhaps (7)
8. Hard-wearing, having a mat on the floor! (6)
9. It gets depressed by short pair about to make sudden attack (7)
15. Lady of the night can set our characters reeling (9)
17. Mental abstraction I ever re-arranged (7)
18. Absolutely determined to find the underworld crooked (4-4)
20. Sweetened by drug? Seasick! (7)
22. Church gets middling light, given room (7)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: 1. Valediction 8. Restrict 9. Ewer 10. Fresh 13. Lots 16. Calf
17. Firm 18. Skew 20. Stamp 24. Eden 25. Concerto 26. Radiography Down: 2. Also 3. Error 4. Incus 5. Ideal 6. Broadcaster 7. Presumption
11. Eaves 12. Halva 14. Olio 15. Else 19. Waned 21. Thong 22. Mocha
23. Arch