CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Foppish fellow coming with the cheese sauce perhaps (8) 5. An address where about a hundred sheep are involved (6) 10. Something with some point, though short, the senior service (5) 11. In which market gardeners have cribs instead of beds? (9) 12. Fall back to stand a round again (7) 13. Bottle our appearance in prison (7) 14. Himalayan native woman radiation protection adviser (6) 16. Sort of tree with which to study fire-break (7) 19. A French diet, right somehow not to be tested (7) 21. Life’s terrors include a way to go to the bad (6) 25. Wild man at variance with duet (7) 26. Producing effect ahead with sport on the ice (7) 28. Where the van is fighting with some words from page one? (5,4) 29. Swift-footed, run away to Tunisian capital (5) 30. Make certain adjustments to see run (6) 31. Still best, having been spared the rod? (8) DOWN 1. A pallet, not enough for a mate with long hair (8) 2. Sound amused, as might a clothier without one (7) 3. Get the soap out for a hair-tint (5) 4. Number one return of ‘X’ in New York (6) 6. Before finding old copper in drink, bias one’s mind (9) 7. Sort of Arab country, Eire? Tam sorted that out! (7) 8. Such as tenaciously hold a way to hurry up (6) 9. Piece of land or vehicle on the farm (7) 15. Camp boundary, fairy measurer (9) 17. Plant uses it to climb, using dirt and one fewer line (7) 18. It’s correct, when in the morass, to give one a scare (8) 20. Thoughts on it are wrong in small numbers (7) 22. What Britannia held I’d found in the river (7) 23. Deaden sound of ‘very loudly’ in the obstinate creature (6) 24. Having seen about one of the credits to show in the cinema (6) 27. Plunder a gun with a grooved barrel (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 1. Tract 4. Semitic 8. Orchestration 10. Liner 11. Golf 12. Gimp 16. Elude 17. International 19. Garters 20. Hides Down: 1. Thoroughgoing 2. Arc 3, 7. The Old Contemptibles 4. Siting 5. Meagre 6. Trickling 9. Collector 13. Retree 14. Murals 15. Perish 18. Nod