SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 What you have when there’s time to spare, perhaps (6)

4 He’s fussy, as the label carrying the number will show (8)

10 Mean to back, girl? Change gear (7) 11 Side roads after a right turn (7)

12 The position said a great deal (4) 13 Keep talking as you leave in the old banger? (6,4)

16 Taken in by the other, a scallywag and a scamp (6)

17 Carrying no guns, return the writings (7) 20 By degrees, turned into a defence (7) 21 In the rag trade, an insurance against flops (6)

24 Gives music a meaning for one? (10) 25 See the two of us meet two other couples on return (4)

27 Saying the number it hinges on; 599 (7) 29 After thirty seconds, the rest come out of church (7)

30 Hereafter, is to be included in the procession (8)

31 Looking frightened, turn round and take cover (6)

DOWN

1 When turning us in, again and again say not to worry (8) 2 Good-looking, elegant and nobody’s fool! (6,5) 3 Don’t leave shore (4) 5 Pulling up the vehicle not to hold one back (8) 6 Given money we went back, mad to get food (6-4) 7 He’ll see the point (3) 8 Broadcasts taking about fifty years to make (6) 9 Hang about while the lady turns the key to enter (5) 14 With which you can always get the drop on your enemy? (5-6) 15 Some bright fellow telling the boss to look out (6-4) 18 A lot of water coming from the mountlets (8) 19 Fell when ushered outside again (8) 22 What the fearful finish by having? (4,2) 23 How a policeman on the street will walk (5) 26 About ten, she is very sensitive (4) 28 With Lew is the bird dog (3)