CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 It will help clean your teeth, little girl (5) 6 Junior team capable of horseplay? (5) 9 If Beckham went soft in the head, might he live here? (7) 10 Weight of a cart, possibly? (5) 11 I’m in the reserves for ‘City’ (5) 12 Hill, perhaps, where most diamonds can be found or cut (5) 13 Is his military career all over? (7) 15 Subdue a female (3) 17 She’s four-fifths Hibernian! (4) 18 Don, we take it (6) 19 Be inclined to buzz off (5) 20 A number departed in extremes of timidity (6) 22 Medicine ball (4) 24 At school, nobody would miss him (3) 25 Having very firm ideas, I got into bed (7) 26 When it’s safe to move round the corner, they hop it! (5) 27 Solidly built due to drink? (5) 28 Saucy hothead somewhere in Scotland (5) 29 So the people accept the socially acceptable poet (7) 30 It helps make the village colourful (5) 31 She hasn’t a single apple left! (5)
DOWN
2 First person to use lead as an additive ingredient of derv (6) 3 Doesn’t shoot the extras (6) 4 Horse trading group? (3) 5 It means good health to a drinker (5) 6 Revel in a car by the river (7) 7 Sign an order at two points (4) 8 One beaten with the cat again? (3-3) 12 Like one’s regular paper round? (5) 13 Talents one has done nothing to earn (5) 14 More pleasant, albeit coldhearted? (5) 15 A youngster takes it to be an obsolete measure (5) 16 The region of SE England (but it’s at Harrow, surely?) (5) 18 The pest that wrecked a ship (5) 19 Cheese possibly not on the revised list (7) 21 Time to get the better of one’s better half (6) 22 Whom dad will regard as a sailor (6) 23 Permissive missive? (6) 25 Such awards can be fab, thanks (5) 26 Safety device in its own box (4) 28 Go in for pipe playing (3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 3. OO-m.p.h. 8. Worth 10. Lucre 11. Bur 12. Felon 13. Not-ably 15. Van-Ya 18. Tea 19. Denise 21. Juggler 22. Wham 23. Shoo 24. Replace 26. Plated 29. AI-R 31. Tunic 32. Ar-men-ia 34. At-one 35. Ear 36. Cairo 37. Actor 38. Aries. DOWN: 1. Robot 2. Stratum 4. OBE-y 5. P-lover 6. Hun-an 7. Brays 9. Rut 12. Flagged 14. Be-G 16. Nic-h-e 17. Aesop 19. Declare 20. S-wept 21. Ja-Pan 23. Screech 24. Re-ctor 25. A-I’m 27. Lunar 28. Ti-a-RA 30. Kirov 32. Ante 33. (g-)Nat.