CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bird that’s seen to be increasing with first wild enclosure (7) 5 Top-ranking mountain area (5) 11 A man told lies, had correction that’s novel (3,5,7) 12 Notes one’s taken on dry river bed (4) 13 Cache appreciated partly because inexpensive (5) 14 It goes up and down like a violinist (2-2) 17 Cause resentment when going this with deep intervention (6) 18 Protest passionately about observer (7) 20 Commander in chief introduces someone nameless but orthodox (7) 22 Obscures sweet sorts (6) 24 Recuperate after heading off to top of ridge (4) 25 About to write about nut (5) 26 Search diligently, keeping company with doctor (4) 29 Escape with woodwind instruments in black boxes (6,9) 30 Flower worth £25 when second seed’s planted (5) 31 Hero-worship grownup who got cut up in A&E (7)

DOWN

2 A fashionable hairstyle on view in the van (5,2,4,4) 3 Who’s given a command to horse, which ... (4) 4 ... heeding management, offered this answer? (7) 6 Gave credit for forty days (4) 7 Impulsive, warm and with it (4,2,3,6) 8 Boils and perspires without a sink (5) 9 Medical procedures plunge me into lifethreatening disease (6) 10 Virginia wells up with Victorian fainting fit (7) 15 Disaccustoms from earlier habits of children (5) 16 Be obsequious with little change during current 24 hours (5) 19 Cry as if to grotesquely lacerate (7) 21 One may decorate a cocktail but become happy after a different double (6) 22 Adverse criticism Sidney heard when drooping (7) 23 Bad-mouthing that upset beaus (5) 27 Object with tail cut off is slim (4) 28 Please get off more than one mountain (4)