CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Groups meet mid-week to go over Freud’s concept of conscience (8) 5 Chin op causes problems to do with speech sounds (6) 9 They hold water, possibly, if square (8) 10 Makes room for special abilities (6) 12 York scare resolved at sacred place in the outback (5,4) 13 Surplice ready for bed? Thanks (5) 14 Initially settle to devour spread that’s lavish (4-2) 17 Make small adjustment when original try is feeble (5) 20 Breakfast items heard and seen in London commuter town (5) 21 Give physical consolation to kids when first year is not consistent (6) 24 Is Hallowe’en the name-day for this guy? (5) 25 Hoping to get cough medicine or not (9) 28 Enter Tooting, not starting to get upset (2,4) 29 Downcast – and I ache for estate in Spain (8) 30 Wanders or remains right out (6) 31 Odd model seen as dull anticlimax (3-5)

DOWN

1 A novice gets under the skin of rampant male in POW camp (6) 2 People who are easily shocked see something shocking in afterthought (6) 3 Neckwear for ugly customers, we hear (5) 4 Thirties sex symbol has clothes – but nothing on! (5) 6 Game may put paid to dance (9) 7 Details of polite behaviour make for pleasant bonds (8) 8 Russian cavalry presenting bags of lettuce? (8) 11 Low-life place in Klosters, say? Give it a miss (4,2) 15 Hit expensive car, it’s reported, with radiant appearance (9) 16 Displaying marks of rank, perhaps, when suffering narrow defeat (6) 18 Texts dining-hall over a long time (8) 19 More impudent feature that is seen to run (8) 22 American Indian is mere bit-player compared to East European (6) 23 As shoe-maker may be in the end (2,4) 26 Publicity fuss about Spanish art gallery (5) 27 Colonial governor comes back as wicked commander (5)