CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Engines had gaps needing sorted for Scottish fare (6,3,5) 9 Place to breed wild ferret (7) 10 Good health destroyed by extreme trifle (7) 11 Took flight from endless backlog of Netherlands city (4) 12 Number originally rescued from river (5) 13 Goodbye to intelligence service ring (4) 16 Allows tavern to be taken over by birds (7) 17 Device competent to enter race (6) 19 Blue scholar captured by means of gun (6) 22 Flora etc provide lavish offerings (7) 25 Creates friction between game and empty bus (4) 26 Pass a law against playing very loudly in Aberdeenshire town (5) 27 A really enclosed space (4) 30 Having contact off the field (2,5) 31 Airways laid out on birch (7) 32 Living for top and bottom of piece (5,3,6)

DOWN

1 Posh fuel spilt by wannabes (8) 2 Volume includes initially empty vessel (7) 3 Island located in mountain chain (4) 4 Car sets down player (7) 5 Leave, taking last of Christmas pudding (7) 6 Made up cheese (4) 7 Thoughtful writers I’ve followed (7) 8 Reminders of Somme battle (5) 14 Blue, down, after first travelling in American state (5) 15 Marine has alternative time to call off before completion (5) 18 On which, possibly, pear lies trained (8) 20 It doesn’t land or nip round first (7) 21 Skill re verses swallowing soreness in windpipe (7) 22 Such a wonderful journalist finds place to sit and sleep (4-3) 23 Month I bed fruit (7) 24 Finally falling precipitation produces cereal (5) 28 Fish in barrel – first rate! (4) 29 Flying saucer descends on square of Asian staple (4)