CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Loose, large bag containing money (5) 6 Digger’s home in the southeast (5) 9 Where horses possibly train mid-week (7) 10 Commence to jump (5) 11 Sharp, like a metal box (5) 12 The tough way out (5) 13 But she sounds a dope! (7) 15 Experienced, nevertheless caught (3) 17 Like a novel mask (4) 18 Girl’s name for a mad airman (6) 19 One way for a listener to use bad language (5) 20 Mummy’s loving little rhyme (6) 22 In Ireland, time for love (4) 24 Non-chemical weed-killer (3) 25 King alone for a day (7) 26 Comic, as many will admit (5) 27 Slow voyage round the pole (5) 28 A hero, hard yet shaky (5) 29 Famous rocks that lack a
name! (7) 30 A name of note in barn building (5) 31 No lack-lustre girl (5)
DOWN
2 A bed you don’t want to leave (6) 3 It’s bad for the engine, but good for the car (6) 4 Carson’s outfit? (3) 5 Lay down a condition (5) 6 To put a wrong clause right is not sacred (7) 7 Something dug up in the garden? (4) 8 In “Macbeth”, a debt collector with a metal box (6) 12 Now in white (5) 13 There’s a snag when you knock the church (5) 14 Villainous ogre madly going round the bend (5) 15 He takes a hard line, the beast! (5) 16 Nomad raised to be an exemplary friend (5) 18 Grape beverage you may want when it’s wet (5) 19 Less faultless service outside the shopping precinct (7) 21 Hang about with some hoboes and a toff (6) 22 Around mid-March, a beast is bad tempered (6) 23 Cricket delivery new to an American? (6) 25 Matted weeds used as a vegetable (5) 26 Not still in the world of photography (4) 28 Intrepid traveller? (3)