CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Curly-headed girl with quality! (5) 6 Is she hunted for her charms? (5) 9 Historic racing car (7) 10 Contrive to feed out duck to Daniel (5) 11 Terry, for a change, must have another shot (5) 12 Furore when a drunken sot joins the marines (5) 13 No prosecution of a half dead criminal (7) 15 She gives Rosalie heart (3) 17 Barren piece of nuclear ideology (4) 18 Those who would put a great player out of work? (6) 19 Stayed sound and sober (5) 20 The many points subjected

to variations (6) 22 A tool for life? (4) 24 Attention during rehearsals (3) 25 Officer’s curiously cool letter to the Spanish (7) 26 Be first to leave? (5) 27 She takes a month to get a 1st class return (5) 28 Worldly change of heart (5) 29 It’s worrying when an unruly gang is out to succeed (7) 30 It makes the roller wet (5) 31 Disparage in notes to the railway (5)

DOWN

2 Do all these songs sound like number one? (6) 3 What one did using the cut stroke? (6) 4 He’s disturbed by the female (3) 5 Commonplace letter to write, it’s said (5) 6 Harassed doggedly? (7) 7 As an article, it gets me upset (4) 8 Wherein to keep horses for the redhead in pink (6) 12 They can sort out the costs (5) 13 There were many before this poet (5) 14 Does he arrange, shiftily, for nothing to be shifted? (5) 15 A spin in the country (5) 16 Honest woman twice left out (5) 18 For an airman, look in a mine! (5) 19 Navigational aid, no end useful to Texans (7) 21 Smoky city? (6) 22 Find enough food for a long time? (6) 23 Character giving a knowing look about a teetotaller (6) 25 Top money, once? (5) 26 It suggests there’s something bad about a good start (4) 28 Last of the big spenders (3)