CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Play down note that is passed round society (8) 5 M9 northwards at Stirling initially causing errors (3-3) 9 Norma fretted during short break, feeling moody? (8) 10 One of a pair seen in Tunis and Algiers (6) 12 Plan’s not quite perfect (4) 13 Everyone knows this old writer’s novel ‘Crete’ (4,6) 15 Old nightclub in London, not unlike 13? (4,2,3,4) 19 Boxing class where tea is distributed during bout (13) 23 Decode signal to stop pilots dashing for planes in wartime? (10) 25 Couple one encountered on way back (4) 28 Peninsula, not the first destination of Soviet exiles? (6) 29 Being perceptive, you previously began outside (4-4) 30 Finish English interrupted by big noise (6) 31 Strong opening impresses male setter (8)

DOWN

1 Second husband (Irish) inspires a yarn (6) 2 Take care of new user after treatment (5) 3 Low northern satellite (4) 4 Soap mixed with first half of 1 Down is still soap (7) 6 Fancy scrapping modern picture (5) 7 On the ground, like the Labour Party in the early Eighties (9) 8 Pass over Reading’s lock problem (5,3) 11 Briefly join military detachment (4) 14 Rubbish mounted in

photograph album (4) 15 Trump controlled South

Carolina in move (9) 16 Not many French expected Wellington at the front (3) 17 Border defended by landed gentry (4) 18 Levi suffers somewhat climbing without restraint (8) 20 U.S. leaves furore

behind (4) 21 Obscure film extracts stocked by Europeans (7) 22 Surrounded by rundown stadium abandoned by university (6) 24 Check over golf rule (5) 26 Herb tucked into

healthy meal (5) 27 In the past Conservative

split 11 (4)