CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Studious exterior of certain

males (5)

6 Rod or Kathy, perhaps (5) 9 Reg Cole as an artist (2,5) 10 She is in time (5)

11 Dance with an eccentric

bachelor (5)

12 Some artists can make

music with it (5)

13 Half the guides in Pennsylvania can’t fly! (7)

15 Little chap in a horse box (3) 17 The hard stuff (4)

18 In the red, you want a price

cut and a pay increase (6) 19 Where fruit’s concerned,

loses out (5)

20 Agreement not to fast during an experiment (6) 22 Shining example of a leader

(4)

24 What a pity Sadie’s lost,

that is (3)

25 Stolen from the church in a

foreign field (7)

26 Magical bit of bowling? (5) 27 Leather parts remade? (5) 28 With some warmth, softheartedly tied in a knot (5) 29 Not the right member to

describe the bowling (4,3) 30 It’s gold coloured, you can

tell! (5)

31 Cries of “Sell out!” at the

end of the day (5)

DOWN

2 Easter puzzle? (6)

3 Deigns to change one’s

intention (6)

4 Like a fox’s grisly end? (3) 5 Bear disaster at Birkenhead

(5)

6 Bad situations bringing

superficial damage (7) 7 Travel erratically out to the

right (4)

8 Tales of a fabulous fellow

(6)

12 Brainless as Billy? (5) 13 People who made pictures

without a bit of pleasure (5) 14 Explosive part detonated, as

is well known (5)

15 Cross this out, roughly, in

part (5)

16 Can it help keep one’s chest

a bit warm in bed? (5) 18 Rhodesian name? (5)

19 One in a bottle of preventive

medicine (7)

21 Right behind in support (6) 22 An intriguing thing to do (6) 23 It’s of signal usefulness in

the loft, say (6) 25 It’s usually held to be transverse (5)

26 Transaction taking place in

Greater Manchester (4) 28 A shot at goal, perhaps (3)