CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Manuscripts are about to treat of form to put to bed (8) 5. Sort of drug, pot: i.e, a mixture (6) 10. Bowler’s approach before election time (3-2) 11. Where one will find the ash-pan being shot at (5,4) 12. Closely questioned as to how one cooked it (7) 13. Putting a bold face on French wine, brag about it (7) 14. Not a Jew, one lost the bait (6) 16. Late amendment by revolutionary was changed (7) 19. Give one another stripe to put before the public (7) 21. Heat may be put out by the Northeast: it’s a gas! (6) 25. Space with a foot at the end of it? (3-4) 26. Make one suffer if Clint turns out wrong (7) 28. Pretends to be sick if mother is hanging about (9) 29. In the style of coming later (5) 30. Make a mockery of reed I’d bent into shape (6) 31. Impresario proud to change dancer if Dan goes (8) DOWN 1. Home loan got Marge into trouble (8) 2. Strain in onset of trouble (7) 3. In a highland dance quietly drive one back (5) 4. Stalwart right inside the den (6) 6. Parent men upset in a way that lasts (9) 7. Like a donkey, is inane about it (7) 8. Pep turns green at end of May (6) 9. Curious dance for an eccentric fellow to go to (7) 15. Ridiculed one old MP: a change was necessary (9) 17. Can’t find the answer, so is dismissed (7) 18. Set out with error and he’ll make it like new (8) 20. A right gruel mix will make one go like clockwork (7) 22. From the East, it’s a CIA concern (7) 23. About to have leeches applied, am censured for it (6) 24. Mouth risks getting split around end of stroke (6) 27. German wife starts dealing in deception (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across: 1. Chart 4. Scratch 8. Mechanisation 10. Photo 11. Iran 12. Peru 16. Inept 17. Bareback rider 19. Extorts 20. Dined Down: 1. Companionable 2. Arc 3. Tramps 4. Suitor 5. Reason 6. Thickness 7. Hand-laundered 9. Head-first 13. Timber 14. Fences 15. Stared 18. Don