CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tail-ender, possibly Welsh (6)

7 Riotous style of existence conservationists would protect (8)

8 Imitation makes her weep! (4)

10 Little girl with a round figure, simply whacked (6)

11 Fight for a place (6)

14 Figuratively, the heart of a lion? (3)

16 Early change for an egg producer (5)

17 Regarded as wealthy after one short day? (4)

19 Waste time on a letter to a friend (5)

21 In extremes of frugality, get in debt as a resort (5)

22 Wherein a gladiator could become a near wreck? (5)

23 One’s holiday may be in the balance! (4) 26 Divert with morning exercise (5)

28 Morecambe’s river? (3)

29 It links up with doublebarrelled names (6) 30 Cod lie around, quite harmless (6)

31 A botanical angle (4)

32 They have a mean meaning for cricketers (8)

33 Superior, thus worthy of hire? (6)

DOWN

1 The odd bit of trouble, we hear (6)

2 Teased with something tempting? (6)

3 For either child, port wine is too much! (4) 4 Very well, yet casually touring part of Ealing (7)

5 The girl in the pool (5)

6 Trumpeter’s name (5)

8 You’ve lost, chum (4)

9 Males have many points (3)

12 It has its regional side (3)

13 Water escaping form lakes? (5)

15 Like an owlish lion? (5)

18 Deliciously suitable to the poet’s tummy (5)

19 A female to cheat, notedly (3)

20 Pleasant piece of grassland (3)

21 Road not committed to a particular direction (7)

22 Tree or a bit of bush (3)

23 Being competitive in a caring way (6) 24 One man in three million? (4)

25 Could Bertha be called to it? (3,3)

26 A leader in the forefront (5)

27 Better bit of brogue, maybe? (5)

28 Firm kiss from the man at the helm (3)

30 A little line in haberdashery (4)