CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Not believing in you and me – or clued otherwise in the middle

(11)

9. Breed to mark with fine lines (5)

10. Degenerating in garret, rode out of it (10)

11. Duration of tenure given as it’s in shelter (5)

12. Hair behind the head has endlessly gone inch awry (7)

14. Hen, say, didn’t start as a night-bird (3)

15. Brogue that will soundly scare the animals away (4)

16. Hold Horatio (6)

17. Something flavoursome and in perfect condition (4)

21. George? She wrote with firmness of character (4)

22. Emotional shock suffered at a rum disturbance (6)

23. So much as those against Thebes lost their leader (4)

26. Its relative position is not true (3)

27. A modified form of treadle (7)

29. It is forbidden for a cricketer to return a double-duck (5)

30. An argument against connecting piece with what’s smuggled

(10)

31. Island company that takes to rugby (5)

32. Skrimshankers resign, realm having broken up (11)

DOWN

2. Former British PM from the top of the country (5)

3. Mistaken, or one sure might be (9)

4. Pressing to get run somehow (6)

5. Speaker giving one nothing but a work such as Messiah (8)

6. Sort of suit one to be fired? (5)

7. Be fastened to a case that’s unfinished (6)

8. Her code base may, of course, be last (11)

12. Sconce whose maker followed the baker (11)

13. Man is to be linked with the French (4)

18. It carries the record run, battle as it may (9)

19. Might alter inn on the inside (8)

20. A knot in thread that may stick to one’s clothes (4)

24. Smouldering remains of the Middle East Serb resettled (6)

25. Arid and bare as the Navy can make it (6)

26. A stand-in who almost makes the column (5)

28. A presbyter who has lived a longer time (5)