CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS

1 The green part with the donkey on (5) 6 Two familiar names for a flower part (5) 9 Like biker gear, though such jackets can be a pest (7) 10 Dark until illuminatingly treated (5) 11 Girl on the motorway to a tourist centre (5) 12 Instruct in gunnery? (5) 13 They have their meetings (7) 15 Expected to be paid (3) 17 What a neglectful skipper might do? (4) 18 Good paper but you can’t read it (6) 19 Keep a car on the road (5) 20 Move smartly to get a towheaded charmer (6) 22 No jug? That’s splendid! (4) 24 Caught and put in the shade (3) 25 Something like TV in school (7) 26 An intelligent bairn , one thinks (5) 27 Dangerous amount of displeasure (5) 28 Figure a dip possibly tasteless (5) 29 Chance to buy something you don’t want? (7) 30 Put up with for one night? (5) 31 A more modern note in a Wren design (5)

DOWN

2 Adventitious bit of wild romance, possibly (6) 3 Hardly considerable as an insult? (6) 4 Plant in a horse trough (3) 5 Celebrities worthy of gazing? (5) 6 Student group of whom half ran the wrong way|? (7) 7 She’s in fostering (4) 8 A young child is more than a handful! (6) 12 After a tango it can hurt, in fact (5) 13 Wherein to pour some vermouth (5) 14 Short of time, I would be nervous (5) 15 Figure to appreciate the thing (5) 16 A big one takes a lot of feeding (as a tree, perhaps) (5) 18 Lemon in its green form (5) 19 Having been wounded, scared about the end of the war (7) 21 Not much food for a lawbreaking eccentric (6) 22 The closing scene may be the ultimate eye-opener (6) 23 Warning I see included in a short letter (6) 25 There’s a lot in us that’s a negative element (5) 26 In Switzerland, it’s capital (4) 28 In Virginia North, it may be called a panel truck (3) ACROSS: 4. Vi-sage 7. Shang-hai 8. Square 10. Alive 13. Do-ur 14. R-I-ta 15. Lira 16. Fly 17. Lion 19. Far-E 21. Butterfly 23. Area 24. Oise 26. E-RA 27. Lo-u-d 29. Rows 32. Hint 33. A-t all 34. Direct 35. Outshine 36. Send up DOWN: 1. O-sc-ar 2. Davit 3. O-gle 4. Visor 5. Sour 6. Gurgle 9. Quaffs 11. Lib 12. Value 13. Dine out 15. L-o-t 16. Fry 18. Italic 20. Alert 21. Br-a 22. Rid 23. Arrive 25. Owl 28. On t-Op. 30. Oasis 31. Sleek 32. He-ed 33. Also