CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A corny little collection (5) 6 A knotty little snag (5) 9 Shifted, and not for the first time? (7)

10 Find there’s not much sign (5)

11 Goes in the car for the bread (5)

12 She’s soft on an aristocrat (5)

13 Willingly again to face the daily grind (7)

15 Can it also fly backwards? (3)

17 Piece of land in Paisley (4) 18 Burn up the track (6) 19 Shaped like a pepper pot, it contains beer (5) 20 Deceived and got rid of by the house (6)

22 Sound of the kookaburra? (4)

24 Instant sunburn! (3) 25 Deserved to finish the summer on a fancy diet (7) 26 Killed with scattered nails (5)

27 Quantity of fluid, possibly paint (5)

28 Such friends as one is thick with (5)

29 Where to race or maybe train for enjoyable ends (7) 30 See detriment in personal appeal (5)

31 Body in a box? (5)

DOWN

2 Are white ones visibly foaming? (6)

3 Where the shops are entered by a rogue? (6) 4 The cost of reduced life expectancy (3)

5 This is so sweet, darling! (5) 6 Poet or yokel about to make a mistake (7)

7 Figure one gets half a dollar (4)

8 One side of Glasgow (6) 12 Ask sincerely and quietly for a bit of help (5) 13 Dexterous punch? (5) 14 A name in financial, banking affairs (5)

15 A brown one is no rainbow! (5)

16 A part for actress Thora (5) 18 The number of dials in London (5)

19 Rant about the medical possibility (7)

21 Being clownish means nothing to a shark, say (6) 22 Bert’s upset about it being cruel (6)

23 Once more go and reciprocate (6)

25 Walter, a Yankee with something handy for baseball (5) 26 Person famous in most areas (4)

28 Fix some mousetraps (3)