CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1. Treating hair as a sport (7) 6. Fine coffee is something to be macho about (5) 9. One jar might contain nothing but Spanish wine (5) 10. Tread on lap – term misapplied to it (7) 11. Social class, et cetera, as it turns out (5) 12. An American Mennonite in Gotham is hypothetical (5) 13. Sends back an official report of the votes cast (7) 15. To chant it, none can be prepared (6) 16. Grass disease turns to endless grey (5) 18. Sign may be in Braille – not the French version, though (5) 20. A lewd sort of open country (5) 21. In the North, palindromic girl’s name for a grandmother (5) 22. Perhaps gleans them from the radar echoes (6) 25. Hence, an adjustment is needed to heighten the effect (7) 26. The lowest point from which drain can come (5) 27. Her Pa is making a seam-like junction (5) 28. Drinks in semi-confusion about the pout (7) 29. Social gathering of distinguished people at the hairdresser’s (5) 30. Puts a question as to attitudes (5) 31. Teams’ morning coffee break (7) DOWN 1. In order to provide food, post the grub (11) 2. Severely criticises the Sunday joints (6) 3. In preamble, seems confused by what can’t be got through (15) 4. A shot from it should make things run more smoothly (6,3) 5. Assume, for argument’s sake, one is in the mail (5) 6. Engine able to include watery mixture it’s not necessary to clean by hand(7,8) 7. Amorous adventurer, as translated by Newhouse (8) 8. Drink up in the Lake District (3) 14. A man gives a speech providing top cover for several (11) 17. A fruit, one from North Africa (9) 19. The French muse as to such instruments (8) 23. Thus make possible the French bean (6) 24. Story of happy innocence nonchalantly put out at end of April (5) 27. It’s not worth it, the criminal charge (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 7. Thoroughgoing 8. Potentially 12. Retail 14. Trowel 16. Travel 18. Tenors 19. Advancement 23. Burnt offering Down 1. Shop 2. Trot 3. Tunnel 4. Thrift 5. Foil 6. Only 9. Outward 10. Lowdown 11. Alas 12. Rite 13. Ice 15. Rye 17. London 18. The off 19. Ague 20. Vane 21. Earl 22. Tank