CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mark’s dog? (5)

6 Financial houses supporting many anglers (5)

9 When wildly to dash way out to the laundrette? (7)

10 Show no haste to be a toady? (5)

11 Revolutionary linen weaver (5)

12 Birds may or may not pay theirs (5)

13 Decorate by carving of stone (7)

15 Cough or breathe on them (3)

17 Pale due to having a fling? (4)

18 Gloomy and apt to become more so (6)

19 Tough master embraced by a lady at a party? (2-3)

20 Explosive effect created by a boxer? (6)

22 Mention in some excitement (4)

24 Shell-like part of a pearl (3)

25 Vessel useful to a smoker? (7)

26 Wine and a piece of seaside rock! (5)

27 A militant start is as much as you can manage (5)

28 What it is to be wise, proverbially (5)

29 Disadvantages a minister exploits? (7)

30 Caper by a six-footer, I see (5)

31 Tired of attrition? (5)

DOWN

2 Cash prizes arranged by the press around the centre court (6) 3 No longer a teenager, at least (6)

4 In jazz, apparently, there’s violent action (3)

5 Sort of reaction to keep watch on? (5)

6 It’s an advantage if everybody’s in when it goes up (7)

7 They’re of one accord (4)

8 The long ones can be deeply penetrating (6)

12 Fighter with whom the old enemy is about to get cross! (5)

13 In which to get a custard pie right in the face? (5)

14 She has far less to cut (5)

15 Escape with a sprained ankle, perhaps? (3,2)

16 It measures many a gnarled tree (5) 18 Spell of wizardry (5)

19 One who believes in being disagreeable? (7)

21 To rain stormily but in small amount (6)

22 Masticates noisily, if you like (6)

23 One you can’t bank on to keep a secret? (6)

25 The blooming lot, useless! (5)

26 She provides a duplicate

copy for me (4)

28 But they meant a lot as fliers (3)