WEE THINKER

Across

5 Yearns for bent spine

(5) 8 Entrance embellished with one type of fruit (9) 9 Call to allow a lock of

hair (7) 10 Rushes oboe parts (5) 11 Fear without starting to

slip (5) 13 Determined to be

followed (6) 16 Daughter sends back Spanish chicken shapeless mass (6) 18 Creep furtively and

slide off (5) 20 Flowers for a woman (5) 22 Sort out strange

podium (7) 24 Build-up sees soccer

end badly (9) 25 Remove soap from

broken siren (5)

Down

1 Loners somehow find king inside tube (7) 2 Cornea is damaged in story line (8) 3 Chap reported letters (4) 4 Editor sadly ran amok (6) 5 Look for a long time for titles (8) 6 Mean to alter handle (4) 7 Small women’s group on ship is foreign (5) 12 Cereal in form of dependency (8) 14 Durable conclusion about old city (8)

Across

1 Draconian (5) 6 Financial inducement (5) 9 Any fabric or cloth (7) 10 Pinafore (5) 11 Cooking bulb (5) 12 Lump of grass and earth (5) 13 Woman who serves drinks (7) 15 --- Danson, actor (3) 17 Plant type (4) 18 Venerate (6) 19 Alcoholic drink (5) 20 Belief (6) 22 To support (4) 24 That woman (3) 25 Studies (7) 26 Circular coral reef (5) 15 Crescent looks modern on satellite (3,4) 17 Pressure to get new trade separated (6) 19 Daft error about following (5) 21 Frank gets round writer (4) 23 Cult ready to get caught (4) 27 Nimble (5) 28 Public telephone booth (5) 29 Windpipe (7) 30 Fiend (5) 31 Lustre (5)

Down 2 Seem or look (6) 3 Tempests (6) 4 Female bird (3) 5 Sober and steady (5) 6 Loaf type (7) 7 Tenant’s payment (4) 8 Bar or pub (6) 12 Any figure 1 to 9 (5) 13 Female dog (5) 14 Amazon, for example (5) 15 American state (5) 16 School furniture items (5) 18 Wallow (5) 19 Water tank (7) 21 Bob Marley’s music (6) 22 Interment (6) 23 Stops (6) 25 To situate (5) 26 Male voice (4) 28 Small barrel (3)