The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- ROS SHERARD

ACROSS

1 Sounds like dog’s dinner for Iranian minority (7) 5 Go to a wild region of New Zealand (5) 11 Doctor working outside NHS sees soldiers’ drill (7,8) 12 Chef is villain not using original recipe (4) 13 Have a good chance of getting bronze in South Dakota (5) 14 Pinched most of aircraft design (4) 17 Simple life-form that may possibly be a Moa (6) 18 Naval chief reloads after wreck (3,4) 20 Ways to climb when boys surround the German (7) 22 Playwright who’s not a painter (6) 24 Shouts of disapprova­l sound drink-fuelled (4) 25 A ton’s broken down and squashed (3,2) 26 Focused attention paid each notion (4) 29 Get angry with traffic director, long for oldest of trees (11,4) 30 Did he pose a set of moral tales to be upheld? (5) 31 Posh car found on species of grass meadow (7)

DOWN

2 Bobbies who are clueless with new introducti­on, courteous with small change (9,6) 3 Praise retrospect­ive plan to upgrade carriagewa­y (4) 4 Nothing provided for adorable footballer­s (5,1,1) 6 Mark selected parasite (4) 7 Investigat­e during car journey that’s become very active (2,4,9) 8 Spice mixed up in large-scale movies (5) 9 Is inclined to seize on final flair in fashions (6) 10 She brings round refreshmen­ts – day late, unfortunat­ely (3,4) 15 This guy gets in before extreme dark (5) 16 Not a lot of people know that star who goes back to very early computer (5) 19 A scholar at a library said “Open Sesame!” (3,4) 21 Revealed as herd wanders over common (6) 22 Put forward work in literary style (7) 23 Gives Brazilian increases (5) 27 Man liable to return first, then to go (4) 28 Amphibian discovery attributed to physicist? It’s not on (4)

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