CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Interrogate quiet son about it (8)

5. Story in instalments sounds corny (6)

10. Warning of danger from continental army (5)

11. Sort of town where many sleep together (9)

12. A more tawdry treat it represents (7)

13. More irritable setback, having a row (7)

14. Buy back deer perhaps with half of them (6)

16. Cutback is about all right if one retracts (7)

19. Pimentos one riddles with shot (7)

21. Old inn servant perhaps lost to King Edward (6)

25. Pets are available for second showings (7)

26. It might aid a car get into an idealised region of Greece (7)

28. How I sing Ravel with no energy on this old instrument (9)

29. Reason for not doing one after breaking bail (5)

30. Is closer to being an earner, somehow (6)

31. Wild rush pets made of it (8)

Down

1. Lodgings for soldiers one divides into four (8)

2. Placed high by former partner, misdealt (7)

3. The Musicians’ Times? (5)

4. Tells waiter what one wants is bath and garter, say (6)

6. Discharges me in OSS: is that possible? (9)

7. To make a god out of one that is sold out (7)

8. They are the strata represented by hens (6)

9. A monk may worry about the refectory leader (7)

15. Stress, mishap: see the difference? (9)

17. Weep about last glass to be broken (7)

18. Composition written by a setter one organised (8)

20. Opera I’m composing for the big shops (7)

22. May be diluted by an opponent of new technology (7)

23. Cowardly cheerleader gets the bird (6)

24. Wager about a fool of a hound (6)

27. What one asks insurer to pay out of endless malice (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 7. Takes the field 8. Meadow-sweet 12. Couple 14. Radial

16. Bunker 18. Priory 19. Expatriates 23. Magnification

Down: 1. Palm 2. Mesa 3. Stroke 4. Lesser 5. File 6. Plot 9. Equinox

10. Episode 11. Ploy 12. Cube 13. Lee 15. Air 17. Ratify 18. Prince

19. Exam 20. Pink 21. Tutu 22. Show