SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 What the diner dressed in satin is eating the contents of? (7,3)

8 Exhausted, having been redecorating (4,2)

9 There’s nothing wrong with me being in a frenzy (4)

10 Drive the train out, definitely (3,7)

11 Said she’s just like you (3)

13 The right back is an Irishman (4)

14 Join one in private (7)

15 At one point, lashed out and bit (4)

17 Set off to get some bushes (5)

20 Paid for having left the coop in the way (5)

22 Type a third or fourth letter for “16” (4) 24 Up in arms! (7)

25 Avoid the hard natural light outside (4) 27 A vessel, royal, unprotected (3)

28 Had I not fallen asleep outside, perhaps it would be obvious (5,2,3)

29 The cockney held one back, being lazy (4)

30 Deny having wound the net round, a time back (6)

31 An academic air (6,4)

DOWN

1 People pass and one is bothered (8)

2 A house man came round with a light (6) 3 It chirps outside, or wraps up (7) 4 Showing the number in a year running in the race (5)

5 Mr. I Johnson (4)

6 Be in no hurry to tame the wild kite caught (4,4)

7 Everybody knows itís not the Crees that rampaged in it (2,6)

12 The sign of the cross (4)

14 In the lead, one gets out of step (4) 16 Mum is first to go to hospital (4)

17 The ladyís solved the clue in it:”strong labour man” (8)

18 he little beauty outside will make less of it (8)

19 Having got up, produced something to eat (4)

21 Turn a neat somersault and Sue comes in cartwheeling (8)

23 A flipping bend! (7)

25 Live on a cake (6)

26 Catch and miss nothing (5)

28 John is outside (4)