CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Best titfer? (3,3)

7 It’s full of patient customers (8)

8 If wrong, do right (doggedly) (4)

10 A stripper in police history (6)

11 Trouble the medical officer just in case (6)

14 Figure the net return (3) 16 Slide around crabwise? (5) 17 The ship had cast off (4) 19 Made fun pushily? (5)

21 It’s not acceptable to be in this (5)

22 A servant to clean your car? (5)

23 The old man’s at half pace again (4) 26 Bachelors, I see, are fairly primitive (5)

28 Much reduced fare (3) 29 It’s a blow for one MP to go to law (6) 30 Additionally morose? (4,2) 31 As in a Maria Callas recording? (4)

32 Neatly chiselled (5-3) 33 Where to get a new hat at the British centre? (6)

DOWN

1 Playing speeds (6) 2 Shouted when the weather turned nasty? (6)

3 The immortal Mr Heyerdahl (4)

4 Disinclined to have acted as a model after work (7) 5 Horse possibly detested by Ted (5)

6 Glass dish? (5)

8 A good time in the garden? (4)

9 The gardener’s little boy (3)

12 Holiday centre providing cover (3)

13 Fall in lumps? (5) 15 People from the ends of the earth? (5)

18 The rent-a-staff man (5) 19 The only friend dad has left? (3) 20 Christopher’s outfit? (3) 21 Medical help if you lose heart and cave, in, possibly? (7)

22 The Roman way (3) 23Small area with a capital hotel

(6)

24District with a real cash

shortage (4) 25Beast having a shot at some

duties (6)

26Tree of painful memories? (5) 27Seen to have rushed round

the capital of Italy (5) 28Favouring a bit of an effort (3) 30One man’s name for the

master race (4)