SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1096

ACROSS

3 Fight the church in Wiltshire (10)

8 A one-time bird sanctuary in N. Italy (6)

9 Stay for the start of play (4)

10 Close friends of the family, no doubt (10)

11 A German town and articles written on it (3)

13 It’s always hard to penetrate the south-east (4)

14 Get as far as telling (5,2)

15 Love animals, it is said (4)

17 Hear he left to go to sea prepared for battle (5)

20 Pencil out the C in ‘cloth’ (5)

22 Set the nippers to work (4)

24 A very good golfer from the beginning (7)

25 Nudists’ favourite colour? (4)

27 Perhaps a TV series (3)

28 What’s wrong with having a warning device on the mountain? (10) 29 The Cockney held one back, but it was useless (4)

30 When in, for instance, the enclosure, becoming less severe (6) 31 Wishing you’d chosen the pale blue instead of the navy? (4,6)

DOWN

1 Besides, if the ferryman worked harder he’d take it (8) 2 The poor fellow took the food and chocolate outside (6) 3 Sang of the fight one had got wounded in? (7)

4 Deny, in the argument, the potato will come up (5)

5 On the road back getting additional information on the scamps (4) 6 Records the score on the wall (8)

7 Hurries below and unwinds (4,4)

12 Sound heard owing to the tunnelling (4)

14 The Indian will make a fuss at the interior (4)

16 Every one getting as far as entering the ring (4)

17 Helped the blockhead compile the diets (8)

18 Sea horse I took the boy in to see (8)

19 The day you polished off the fruit (4)

21 Declaring one’s willingness to make a contribution (8)

23 A small flutter on ‘Mini-Roller’ (7)

25 He is among the pick of the bunch in command (6)

26 The step is light when one enters (5)

28 Only a sixth of a minute before (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE 1095

Across: 1 Garlic. 5 Sought. 8 Allow. 9 Look up. 10 Excuse. 11 Uncle. 14 Preacher. 16 Squash. 18 Seating capacity. 20 Revert. 22 Triplane. 25 Sober. 27 Points. 28 Obtuse. 29 Lulls. 30 Strike. 31 Events.

Down: 1 Gallop. 2 Rook. 3 Capuchin. 4 Electricity bill. 5 Sweets. 6 Glue. 7 Trench. 12 Saltier. 13 Quickly. 15 Reeve. 17 Satin. 19 Primrose. 20 Rumpus. 21 Tussle. 23 Excess. 24 Pier. 26 Burn.