CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shows produced in Madras

(6)

7 The leading twenty, or best

of eleven (3,5)

8 A seat in the south of central

Spain (4)

10 Will he put a spot of gin in

the water for you? (6)

11 Did he house people in

Rome? (6)

14 Name the news centre at

Leatherhead (3)

16 He determines where the

line shall be drawn (5)

17 Area of the back door (4) 19 A high dignitary, but you may see him holding a piece of cake (5)

21 Possibly not a trainee of

sound quality (5)

22 More than warmly! (5) 23 Fate brings a bad mood (4) 26 Where, in old England, a girl

got work (5)

28 Father of TV comedy (3) 29 A.J. took Charlie and Ron in

(6)

30 An old-fashioned assortment of plungers (6)

31 A Russian from Sligo, Republic of Ireland (4)

32 Evidently injured, the boys

looked older (8)

33 He isn’t still at school, dear

fellow (3,3)

DOWN

1 Could all that pushing and pulling make it red raw? (6)

2 Suggested by a low fellow

(6)

3 Leader of the 1st Army (4) 4 Loiters around in a resort (7) 5 Where the booze is like an

anaesthetic? (5)

6 Not so dusty? (5)

8 What the farmer uses for

sifting soil? (4)

9 Not many have noisy ways

(3)

12 A drink that’s red, old horse!

(3)

13 String quartet member with

the biggest belly (5)

15 No longer boyish? (5) 18 Mark gets a ring from him

(5)

19 Recently stolen from a hotel

(3)

20 To love her is good! (3) 21 Like fresh news that shook

the Capitol! (7)

22 Not completely honourable

(3) 23 Maybe dived out of the ring,

thus making it empty (6) 24 Stream of modernism in

Europe (4)

25 My accepting a rotten rise

leads to unhappiness (6) 26 Apparatus one is immersed

in using (5)

27 As girded for action involving wild lions? (5)

28 Tight game? (3)

30 She performed for nothing in association with Aeneas (4)