CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A petty complaint about Bible, following first half of quiz (7)

6. Cried out for scrumpy (5)

9. Nick is not to go to church (5)

10. Prejudiced by being surrounded by the sea (7)

11. War or disturbance may point to it (5)

12. Happen to have a Cricket Club in your and my setting (5)

13. Plant part often drilled round it (7)

15. There’s more in the fashioning of fine dress fabric (6)

16. Surplus copies of deliveries in sixes (5)

18. Stand-in medical officer needs no end of luck (5)

20. A peculiar Gothic piece of slang (5)

21. If the characters are so disposed, he’ll pinch (5)

22. Checked cloth for painting in brown (6)

25. A single version of it one is taking on hire (7)

26. It is, roughly, for each to leap like a goat (5)

27. No end of sea used in Indian cookery (5)

28. He rows from Mars on a whirl (7)

29. Corn chip can be taken back to the house (5)

30. Brad gives one a bit of mint, say (5)

31. In writing, misclues pecs (7)

DOWN

1. Groups of five notes played in time of four or five sibs (11) 2. As mad as 9 can be (6)

3. A partnered activity to music (8,7)

4. The registering of term none left out (9)

5. Company capital to have in store (5)

6. Diplomat made to pay for romantic intrigues around the East (6-9)

7. ____ I listen – to a Nightingale of Keats’s (8)

8. Is in the naked, uncooked state (3)

14. Groups of soldiers one satisfies by including mixed gin (11) 17. Even now there’s space to store liquor (9) 19. It is round a sort of letter (8) 23. Lugubrious, though as mild as could be (6) 24. A spot of bacon fat (5)

27. Its fares are on deck (3)