CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Pointers to sin that may involve the bones (7)

6. Become liable for the ruin century brings about (5)

9. Undecorated 18 (5)

10. One adjusting to changing loyalties is neater in figure (7) 11. Faint-hearted way to lower the light from the East (5) 12. Gaelic whiskey (5)

13. May be chaffing one about going to the bad (7)

15. Creature that leaps from lap I am making for it (6)

16. What it adds up to will be a complete write-off (5)

18. 9 shows everything to come back to small number (5) 20. Breather one gets with a loincloth (5)

21. Craft coming from Cathay without a deviation (5)

22. Feel aggrieved now that the leader is lost (6)

25. Sort of express it endlessly? (7)

26. Doesn’t go for corsets (5)

27. Planet whose first pair might be put out (5)

28. Prime change in the Italian will put one at risk (7)

29. She will start to moan about her (5)

30. Having little experience in common (5)

31. Picks up how one does shirring (7)

DOWN

1. Inserted between others it can rarely get out of it (11)

2. Drophead, first to be modified, moves without direction (6) 3. To realise one’s potential, inherit nose now to be reshaped (4,4,4,3)

4. Agile agent loses tail, correctly designated (9)

5. Swift, a bird quietly losing its head (5)

6. In process of change, something will be fashioned anew (2,3,7-3)

7. Policeman may lack the energy to grumble (8)

8. Gun taken to clear the drains out (3)

14. Incantations that produce megilp − class struggle (5,6)

17. Granting one permission to serve nice sling such as this (9) 19. Positive use a bolt can be put to (8)

23. Have no intake, the ‘arvest being destroyed (6) 24. To be full of froth is mentally unsound (5)

27. Dog that may be a boxer (3)