CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Cats feel sin to be wrong (7) 6. How delightful a crowd player can be! (5) 9. Material inserted in a song (5) 10. Win back car, mile out of place (7) 11. Artist had no comeback in being comeacross (5)12. Victoria, soft and well filled out (5) 13. Thin twilled material Elias is making (7) 15. Ravel work on a short waistcoat (6) 16. One germ that’s spread by dirt (5) 18. Fangs to which one may be armed (5) 20. One taking parts to car perhaps (5) 21. Musical group, etc, to be formed (5) 22. Former schoolman looked at it and followed instructions (6)25. It’s little and Italian, blow it! (7) 26. Something new by way of romance (5) 27. Cut back growth of plum when it’s dried (5) 28. Asserts various legal points (7) 29. Classifies the characters in a fount (5) 30. Puppets were housed in the theatre (5) 31. Is permitted to take part of arbour, a hawthorn (3,4)

DOWN

1. Rest of it on a turn-around in tree-planting (11) 2. The pub round the corner is, at end of June, scene of the event (6) 3. She regains dents made through myopia(4-11)4. It is congenial for an Italian (9) 5. Defy order to jeer at one (5) 6. May stop my act: ill it can be, in a characteristic way (15) 7. He’s sorry he’s confessed (8)8. Despicable person goes on to be an informer (3) 14. The middle class bogie that is ours to replace (11) 17. Medium substance supplied at ample cost(9)

19. After a time final NUT leave is organised (8) 23. The notes he issues don’t ring true (6) 24. Is finished by the end of August, in public(5) 27. Run softly home (3)