CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 A form of cloth-headed nincompoop? (5)
6 Sit and fish (5)
9 Early racing car (7)
10 Pearl’s maternal parent (5)
11 As a rogue, he will not do well (5)
12 Place among the supper things (5)
13 Tardy and slow getting into bed (7)
15 Help in getting an excellent figure (3)
17 The apple man (4)
18 Sad at having made a mess of a sitter? (6) 19 Uncle’s red-headed birds (5)
20 Watch your heart! (6)
22 Former soccer star still in shape, let’s say (4)
24 Employment of an American egghead (3) 25 No mere king penguin (7)
26 Foolishly close to the bat? (5)
27 Flowery trade union mouthpiece! (5)
28 New romance? (5)
29 Weakness makes me tired (7)
30 Does nothing but slide around (5) 31 Friendly to all in extremes of poverty (5)
DOWN
2 Weighed down with all that money? (6)
3 A very funny cry? (6)
4 Female a bit washed out? (3)
5 Let Fred out of durance vile at last! (5)
6 Being stuck up, they’re apt to be given a pasting (7)
7 Draw in fetching style (4)
8 Arrive at the end of a long wait and exaggerate pretentiously (4,2)
12 He’ll look out for a tin opener (in the safe?) (5)
13 People in endless butane production? (5) 14 Weapon unsuited to very close combat! (5) 15 A flower instead of a half of bitter (5) 16 Put off upsetting 5 (5)
18 Childish place to have an ache? (5)
19 Culinary information about use of spice (7) 21 Sid, upset about someone being given out (6)
22 Game in which a seed can receive a fortune? (6)
23 With nothing but fifty quid, he founded Jodrell Bank (6)
25 It’s presumably been growing longer (5) 26 Maybe the right team (4)
28 If you want a drink, move fast (3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS:
3. Trip-e
8. Roger
10. Regal
11. Run
12. Major (Barbara)
13. Several
15. Tiara
18. RA-T
19. Poet-ic
21. Caption
22. Meal
23. Bait
24. Printer
26. S-olve-S
29. Ted
31. Sleep
32. SE-Crete
34. Spend
35. O-we
36. Piste
37. Boers
38. Arabs.
DOWN:
1. Bored
2. General
4. Real
5. Proton
6. Eerie (Erie)
7. Maori
9. Guv
12. Matters
14. Rap
16. Attar
17. A-cute
19. Pointed
20. A-miss
21. Cab-le
23. Bedroom
24. Pe-pp-er
25. Tec
27. Oldie
28. V-esta
30. Stern
32. Snub
33. Ewe.