CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. There’s plenty of reason for such a row (8)

7. We sin in such a way as to make pigs of ourselves (5)

8. As prominent as return to one in Lent (7)

9. Remove difficulties as one pressing does in the garden

(4,3)

10. A guidance line contained in future instructions (4)

12. Take out the crowd player and correct the ends (7)

14. Sulphur could be decent, if given a perfume (7)

17. A thin coat of entertainment (4)

18. Drape, as taken by performer who takes a bow (7)

21. Do similarly if I’m to get it at tea-break (7)

22. It’s nearly October 3rd when it gets dark (5)

23. Church books might be used as lap-rests (8)

DOWN

1. It is ridiculous to confuse us with the Bard (6)

2. Seabird with bile disorder is liable to be taken in (8)

3. It is fitting to come face to face with one (4)

4. It’s not a foreign oyster (6)

5. Weight that will almost destroy the ring (4)

6. Pet set out with a group of players (6)

7. Wore something, as one was playing (7)

11. Withdraw, with the Sappers, to a stretch of country (7)

13. How to stop ruling (8)

14. A brief time when there’s one ahead (6)

15. Says one didn’t need, and is upset (6)

16. Remember sifting some of the red-hot ashes (6)

19. Oil platforms one equips with sails (4)

20. Its grinding makes a large number sick (4) SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Chamberlain 9. Extra 10. Kiss of life 11. Dwell

12. Embrace 14. Ass 15. Otic 16. Pomade 17. Pend 21. Reed

22. Gambia 23. Onus 26. Sin 27. Emanate 29. Mogul

30. Overdriven 31. Tenet 32. Harvest moon

Down: 2. Hokum 3. Bystander 4. Rafter 5. Agitated 6. Needs

7. Street 8. Hallucinate 12. Emperor moth 13. Bump

18. Dramatist 19. Reindeer 20. Abba 24. Urgent 25. Beadle

26. Sloth 28. Tanto