SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Having wakened, is about to use the gun (6)

4 Are there terrible rips and an awful rent in his tracksuit? (8)

10 Was very sorry about the bad tea when one complained (7)

11 In a word, they’re not preventatives (7) 12 A lake with a duck on it, all right, and a gander (4)

13 He’s very clever, boy; watch your step! (6-4)

16 Are fiddling with the switch in the garden, no doubt (6)

17 Local fashion proves to be a barrier (7) 20 With a ‘Yah!’ stands on the little garments (7)

21 Did one’s best to cover the other end with the heater (6)

24 Thought it would appeal to the Narcissus in you! (10)

25 That is so (4)

27 The measurement and part of the description of a polar bear? (7)

29 The officer’s likely to be taken in by the murderer (7)

30 Having among one’s wares an item of apparel (8)

31 Not under private ownership, one says (6)

DOWN

1 The lovely girl in the bright jacket was among the insurgents (8)

2 Think what the baker’s slogan would be (3,4,4)

3 Puts away the broken chair (4)

5 It will be sumptuous, dad, when I get at all organised (8)

6 Translates from French and the printers swarm around (10)

7 Are even getting one something to wear (3)

8 Be at home again by eleven (6)

9 It’s perfect when I pass the cards round (5)

14 Cheerful as the transplant patient when the surgeon has put it? (2,4,5)

15 Place in the US Diamond Lil didn’t think much of? (6,4)

18 Write ‘No gun’ up on the building (8)

19 As an indoor animal’s put outside by country people (8)

22 Goes along with current trends (6) 23 Feel something move (5)

26 See the point and shoot (4)

28 Back into Ireland from Brazil (3)