SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Opinion you contradict loudly (6)

5 Clearly reveal to be a robbery (4-2)

8 A story beginning generally in a foreign city (5)

9 Upset if and when the firm has a failure (6)

10 Because the patching up of the centre makes it different (6)

11 The Puller Building (5)

14 The rest of the troops will be destroyed by it (8)

16 Will no longer run the display stands (6)

18 Reel about, fetching and carrying for? (5,10)

20 Left in the verse about orgies (6)

22 In the end, it’s stuffy inside (8)

25 A zig-zag line would be out of place here (5)

27 It’s not unusual in an unbuilt-up area (6)

28 Over a mongrel (6)

29 The flower is pale-coloured (5)

30 Sound the editor out on return, which is mean (6)

31 Settle for a row at the centre back (6)

DOWN

1 He’s polishing the fender (6)

2 Show one the way to influence people (4)

3 Charge a great deal to go in to see the ships (8)

4 Where the inference lies that it’s no-man’s land (7,3,5)

5 Cupid’s suit? (6)

6 Spent and got cheated (4)

7 They’re photographed with the putters (6)

12 Fish bars (7)

13 The soft angora for knitting is perfect (7)

15 Get the letters off (5)

17 Means to put in the clue “Falling rain” (5)

19 “Old Harry”, for instance? (8)

20 Can be made to clear out, which is bad (6)

21 Attitude one could adopt as a Cantonese (6)

23 Mother brought the boy up as a girl (6)

24 Sign on some fifty per cent in it (4)

26 She put up a perch (4)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Dream world. 6 Cowl. 10 Repents. 11 Meeting. 12 Sensation. 13 Upset. 14 Spine. 15 Greenhorn. 17 Precedent. 20 Aided. 21 Optic. 23 Practises. 25 Tresses. 26 Inching. 27 Rate. 28 Escapement.

Down: 1 Darns. 2 Expensive. 3 Mental exercise. 4 Ousting. 5 Laminae. 7 Omits. 8 Lightened. 9 Genuine article. 14 Supporter. 16 Old as time. 18 Exposes. 19 Tsarina. 22 Trent. 24 Sight.