CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Four-score sure to find Ray changing! (8)

5. Look through narrowed eyes around the street and be a nuisance (6)

10. Indian, perhaps, fashions canoe for it (5)

11. Around hair-roots they fill, close to being tangled (9)

12. Having weights for exercise, it will preclude a ringer (3-4)

13. Posting to Minehead when poorly (7)

14. Where one goes to land from a ship or a horse? (6)

16. I’m no angel, me, but a bit of a mixture (7)

19. Started with fright, as one’s mind was unable to grasp (7)

21. Kindly begin to make it, going North (6)

25. I am sat by artist and laid upon (7)

26. Specimen school test will only half-please (7)

28. They have the radio on when ships have got broken set in (9)

29. Range about after quarry and rub hard (5)

30. Red root is hard to chop up (6)

31. Let one’s chin fall for the coupe (8)

DOWN

1. Bully Bob we rat about (8)

2. Dig out her Aunt by mistake (7)

3. Needs adjustment, being so thick (5)

4. A frill to handle roughly and spoil its smoothness (6) 6. Having given up the mile, was at home and dined to get rid of it (9)

7. The relation is effective – and that would be! (7)

8. Being concerned with the portent, leave the post (6)

9. Does he find an Alpine or this sort of plant? (7)

15. Official lists compiled by Serge create stir (9)

17. Sold as one rode, one hears (7)

18. Buried a sort of red nitre (8)

20. Is against work: dope’s upset by it (7)

22. I am to demonstrate how to make things better (7)

23. One of society who doesn’t make the gossip column? (6)

24. He examines books and the like to score with the North perhaps? (6)

27. A pose he might have adopted with his fables (5)