CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Business vehicle? (5) 6 There’s one in outer Hackney, darling (5) 9 Peaceful and calm for days (7)

10 The odd street light? (5) 11 Peels back to reveal the rest (5)

12 Tastefully eccentric? (5) 13 Game, by Jiminy! (7) 15 Short communication from the stateless (3)

17 A one-way girl (4)

18 Pass over a wild region (6) 19 Cross-country runner passing through Paris (5)

20 See a retrograde revel as smart (6)

22 Vigorous piece from Stravinsky (4)

24 Success on parade? (3) 25 Jack, the boy possibly with Samuel (7)

26 Run out and look around for central heating (5)

27 Beer to mature in different ways (5)

28 City water supplies? (5) 29 The boys like roulette (7) 30 He makes us cry (5)

31 For some, the nearest drug

store (5)

DOWN

2 Ticket for the second match (6)

3 Happen to roll up with a bigwig? (6)

4 Oh, her – she sounds all right (3)

5 Do a recce, there’s a good chap (5)

6 One held in a house with broken gates? (7) 7 Except for being unique (4)

8 There’s no longer a tree, perhaps, in town (6) 12 Point to a vessel as being more modern (5)

13 The snag about a guy going to church (5)

14 Where an admission is made (5)

15 They’re for picking up heavy weights around Gateshead (5)

16 Find there’s money to be paid (5)

18 Going to get out of the rain, fortunately (2,3)

19 Just the emperor to break links with the States (7) 21 Set fire to some long speech (6) 22 Concentrating on one’s aim (6)

23 Plenty one doles out for love? (6)

25 James, father of David? (5) 26 A current country (4) 28 Used to be squandered by Ted (3)