CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Announced by a government departmental head (6) 7 Introduces us to the wickedness of woman (6,2)

8 Fat chap embracing a redhead (4)

10 In wildest Peru, a silver city (6)

11 She makes a terrible noise around the first of the month (6)

14 It’s naughty, yes, and a bit nice (3)

16 A term for mother (5) 17 An obvious untruth on record (4)

19 Sunny little chap with a warm heart (5)

21 A design maybe new to old me (5)

22 It’s significantly worn (5) 23 Figure always to change direction (4)

26 Killed by all that vice around Los Angeles? (5) 28 Guided by a little light (3) 29 In harmony, all are singing from the same one (6) 30 Pictures showing a mode of operating traps (6) 31 Nominally one wandering out West (4)

32 Not accelerated but immobilised (8)

33 Ways to get a replacement part transported (6)

DOWN

1 Styled in a fashion imitated, on the quiet (6) 2 Gravely serious complaint about music (6)

3 No real cowboy strikes a false note (4)

4 Medical treatment has its point (7)

5 Where jockeys can change coats (5)

6 The man who came to dinner (5)

8 She’s left a mug (4) 9 Change ends, sportingly (3) 12 Thrust the wrong way and spoil (3)

13 Edit Verne with audacity (5) 15 A city trick (5)

18 How to complain about hard water (5)

19 The turf thus initially dug (3) 20 Person interrupting Jamie Curtis? (3)

21 Does one barely succeed in being boss? (7)

22 Sort of liner that takes the discards? (3)

23 Its beauty is but skin deep (6)

24 River of Sweden? (4) 25 Dislike being made to go twice (6)

26 Remove that garment! (5) 27 One teacher is wrong (5) 28 Like a much reduced allowance? (3)

30 The style of many a poem (4)